Key milestones
2025
- Thoughtworks named as a Leader and a Customer Favorite in The Forrester Wave™ Modern Application Development Services, Q1 2025 report.
- Thoughtworks partner, Mechanical Orchard, honored as a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in AI Code Assistants report.
- Honored as Databricks Partner of the Year in Latin America for modernizing communications, media and entertainment.
- Thoughtworks reinforces commitment to world-class security and data protection with Global ISO 27001 Certification.
2024
- Acquired people and technology assets from Watchful.
- Mike Sutcliff joins as new Chief Executive Officer and Director.
- Thoughtworks is named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Custom Software Development Services, Worldwide.
- Thoughtworks Completes Transaction to Go Private in $1.75 Billion Deal with Apax Funds.
2023
- Acquired Itoc, a privately-held, AWS-focused cloud infrastructure company based in Brisbane, Australia.
- 30th anniversary of Thoughtworks.
- Thoughtworks announced expansion plans in Switzerland.
2022
- Acquired Connected in Canada and Handmade in Brazil.
- Named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Modern Application Development Services, Q3 2022.
- Opened office in Vietnam.
- Named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Migration and Managed Service Partners in Asia Pacific, Q4 2022.
2021
- Acquired Gemini Solutions, to strengthen European presence and Fourkind, to deepen machine learning and data science capabilities. Opened first offices in Romania, Netherlands and Finland.
- Great Place to Work-Certified™ in many global locations, with additional regional rankings such as Best Workplaces for Women™ in Brazil and the UK.
- Launched Decoder, the business execs' guide to technology and Looking Glass report.
- Launched new brand position and unveiled new logo and visual identity. Thoughtworks became a publicly listed company with Nasdaq.
2020
- Named strong performer in digital product development by Forrester Research Inc.
- Committed to the Valuable 500, the global movement putting disability on the business leadership agenda.
- Awarded IT Vendor of the Year by the UK IT Industry Awards.
2019
- Published The Digital Transformation Game Plan: Thirty-four tenets for masterfully merging technology and business.
- Published How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh, introducing a radical new paradigm for data platforms that can enable enterprises to realize value from their data investments.
2018
- Awarded Daimler supplier of the year for innovation for 2017.
- Surpassed 5,000 Thoughtworkers.
- Launched Perspectives: a publication for digital leaders.
2017
- The Apax Partners acquired Thoughtworks.
- Opened first offices in Thailand.
2016
- Opened first offices in Spain and Chile.
- First awarded the winner of the AnitaB.org Institute’s top companies for women technologists, winning again in 2017 and 2018 and recognized as a leader in 2019 and 2020.
2015
- Collaborated with Save the Children in the fight against Ebola, including developing an open-source and adaptable electronic medical record system that was used in Sierra Leone.
- Published Building Microservices.
2014
- Opened first offices in Italy. Published the seminal article Microservices and Building Microservices.
- Surpassed 3,000 Thoughtworkers.
2013
- Opened first offices in Ecuador.
2012
- Opened first offices in Singapore.
- Started building Bahmni, an open source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed specifically for healthcare providers in low-resource settings.
2011
- Published first edition of Thoughtworks Technology Radar, tracking the new developments in technology across techniques, tools, platforms, languages and frameworks.
2010
- Opened first offices in Germany.
- Published Continuous Delivery: reliable software releases through build, test and deployment automation.
2009
- Opened first offices in Brazil.
- Surpassed 1,000 Thoughtworkers.
2005
- Established Thoughtworks University, an immersive program to prepare graduates and careers changers for their first client engagements while planting the seeds for long-term leadership and cultural impact.
2004
- Opened first offices in China.
- Selenium, the leading web application testing framework today, was developed based on work started internally at Thoughtworks.
- Surpassed 500 Thoughtworkers.
2001
- Opened first offices in India and Canada.
- A 27-year-old Guo Xiao was featured in The Economist as an early adopter of Extreme Programming (XP), an agile software development framework.
- Manifesto for agile software development was published (co-authored by our Chief Scientist Martin Fowler).
- Released CruiseControl open source software.
2000
- Opened first offices in Australia and the United Kingdom.
- Led the industry in adopting a distributed agile development approach.
1999
- Guo Xiao and Dr. Rebecca Parsons joined Thoughtworks.
1993
- Thoughtworks was founded in Chicago.