LittleHorse Enterprises LLC

Enabling the next generation of Workflow-Driven Applications.

Founded in December 2021

After years of working on microservices using various event-driven architecture patterns, our Founder Colt McNealy decided there must be a better way to build modern software.

Over the holiday break in 2021, he decided to start prototyping a modern workflow engine designed to put engineers back in the saddle of their microservice architecture.

Open-Sourced in 2023

As a company built by engineers, for engineers, we decided to make our platform open-source, since that's what we expect from software we use ourselves.

That's why you can find our code and roadmap on GitHub—free for production use—, where we welcome contributions from the community.

The Team

Colt McNealy

Founder and CEO

Colt is the founder of LittleHorse Enterprises and the original author of the LittleHorse Server. He's a passionate Apache Kafka fan and loves hockey, golf, piano, cooking, and Taekwondo.

Scott McNealy

Investor and Advisor

After a storied career as the founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems—the company that brought you Java, NFS, and SPARC—, Scott spends his time advising startups like LittleHorse on strategy and operations.

Mitchell Henderson

Solutions Architect

Mitch is a software industry veteran experienced with Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, and systems modernization across a diverse set of industries including financial services, healthcare, technology, retail, and manufacturing. He prides himself in ensuring that all users of LittleHorse are successful.

Hazim O. Arafa

Solutions Engineer

Hazim is a solutions engineer at LittleHorse with a passion for solving customer problems and prior experience contributing to our open-source project and the Workflow SSO Bridge product. Outside of LittleHorse, Hazim is proud to serve in the Army National Guard.

Partner Ecosystem

CEdge

CEdge Inc (CEdge) provides a range of Information Technology services to a customer base that includes multiple agencies within the United States States Government as well commercial enterprises throughout the nation and St. Louis metropolitan regions. CEdge has competencies in System Integration, Enterprise Architecture and Program Management, and workforce training, and has developed solutions and developer training materials using LittleHorse.