Thomas Froment manages developer tools at the Eclipse Foundation. He oversees projects like Eclipse Theia to ensure open-source environments stay flexible and accessible for engineering teams.
His work centers on bringing AI into developer workflows securely and without vendor lock-in. He focuses on building air-gapped setups using local LLMs, proving internal tooling can be both smart and private. Alongside these AI initiatives, he leads the Open VSX registry and Eclipse IDE working groups.
