The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

by East River Source Control

NEW YORK (September 1, 2026), FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

East River Source Control has appointed Martin von Zweigbergk, creator of the Jujutsu type power system, arsenic main exertion officer, to lead engineering connected the company’s adjacent procreation type power platforms.

von Zweigbergk began Jujutsu arsenic a broadside task successful precocious 2019 and turned it into his full-time activity astatine Google. The task has much than 30,000 stars connected GitHub and ships nether the Apache 2.0 license.

Before Jujutsu, he worked connected Fig, the Mercurial customer that gave Google engineers a distributed workflow connected apical of Piper, the monorepo holding astir of the company’s code. He besides contributed to Git, which according to the 2022 Stack Overflow developer survey, 96% of developers usage professionally.

The difficult problems galore engineering teams are conscionable opening to look are ones he’s already been moving connected for complete a decade. Having Martin lead our engineering affords ERSC a wholly different level of method capacity arsenic an organization.

— Benjamin Brittain
     co-founder and main executive serviceman of East River Source Control.

The institution is building devices to thief organizations negociate the exponentially expanding needs of their root codification guidance and collaboration devices brought astir by the measurement AI is re-shaping the package industry. ERSC Storage will beryllium entering backstage beta later this month.

von Zweigbergk will proceed to beryllium a halfway maintainer of JJ arsenic an unfastened root task nether the Apache 2.0 license.

Jujutsu improves the portion of type power that sits connected your laptop. But the distant server is still Git, which has a ceiling that comes accelerated for products astatine scale. We deliberation the retention furniture has to alteration to lucifer the model, and that activity tin beryllium amended supported by a institution than an unfastened root project.

— Martin von Zweigbergk
     main exertion serviceman of East River Source Control.

About East River Source Control

East River Source Control is building the adjacent procreation of type power platforms for humans and machines. The institution launched successful 2025, backed by Amplify Partners. For much information, sojourn ersc.io.