Teachers. Champions. Ambassadors!

Daniel has been part of the codecentric team since October 2016. Since the beginning of 2022 he works as Senior Solution Architect at the Dortmund branch. Starting as a consultant with a focus on application lifecycle management, his focus shifted more and more towards APIs. In addition to numerous customer projects and his involvement in the open source world around APIs, our Head of API Experience & Operations is also a frequent speaker at conferences.

Giri Venkatesan, a follower and proponent of AsyncAPI and teams up with companies & SIs to design event-driven architecture and asynchronous APIs. To guide those discussions, I draw upon years of integration and implementation experience, particularly with Solace platforms. I've been a follower of AsyncAPI since 2022, and written blogs and delivered talks at conferences and AsyncAPI confrence tours.

Co-creator of Specmatic and Perfiz. I also advise organizations, both large and small, on their transformation journey. Apart from bringing ideas to life as working software products, I coach developers, project managers, product owners, and engineering leaders. I have spoken at several conferences, including AACoT 2023, API Specification Conference (#ASC2022), API World, SeleniumConf, Agile2021, Agile India, TestingUY 2021, SREConf, PyCon Singapore, RubyConf India. My areas of interest include distributed systems, concurrency, high-performance application architecture, coaching, and training.

Hugo Guerrero is a developer advocate for APIs and Event-driven Architecture. He assists organizations in this role by creating, editing, and curating product content shared with the community through webinars, conferences, and other activities. He works on open source software with major private and federal public sector clients looking to connect and extend their system architecture. He has over 20 years of experience as a developer, consultant, architect, and software development manager.

Java Architect with a deep understanding of Java, Spring-Boot, Spring-Cloud technologies, specializing in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Event-Driven Architectures creating Software Easy to Understand. Building ZenWave 360º. ZenWave 360º is a set of tools built on the foundations of Domain Driven Design and API-First principles for Event-Driven Architectures, to help you create software easy to understand. https://www.zenwave360.io/

Jesse Menning teams with companies and government agencies to design event-driven architecture and microservices at scale. To guide those discussions, I draw upon more than 15 years of integration architecture and implementation experience, particularly with IBM and Solace platforms. I've been involved with AsyncAPI since 2020, along with other open-source initiatives such as CloudEvents and OpenTelemetry.

Lorna is based in Yorkshire, UK; she is a technology leader and expert in developer experience, passionate about enhancing APIs and developer tools. In her day job as VP of Developer Experience at Redocly, she works on API and documentation tools for technical teams. Lorna is a published author and a regular speaker at conferences, sharing her insights on a variety of tech-related topics. Lorna serves on the OpenUK board, is on the Technical Steering Committee for OpenAPI specification, and maintains open source projects. To learn more about Lorna's activities, visit her website at https://lornajane.net.

Ludovic is a Solutions Architect, working with his customers to build EDA-oriented digital products wherever possible. His first contributions to AsyncAPI date back to 2020 around the kafka and avro specifications. Since then, Ludovic has been spreading the word about AsyncAPI to companies in Northern France, to accelerate adoption of the initiative.

Manuel is the Product Owner of the Global Integration Platform at HDI Global SE. He sold his first software at the age of thirteen and has been developing software ever since. After graduating, he joined the financial industry in API management and eventually moved to HDI Global SE to merge a service bus, API management and an event broker into an integration platform for the cloud division. In addition to his work at HDI Global SE, he is co-founder of a small company in the education software sector and freelance writer for heise.de and its magazines.

Mete is a Software Engineer and a Developer Advocate with 18+ years of experience. Currently, he works in the Developer Relations team at Google in London. He builds tools, demos, tutorials, and gives talks to educate and help developers to be successful on Google Cloud. As a regular speaker at tech conferences, he has spoken over 345+ events since 2016 on modern application development topics such as Kubernetes, Istio, Knative, serverless, event-driven architectures, and microservice orchestration. Prior to his current role, he was a Software Engineer/Architect/Tech Lead at Nokia, EMC, Adobe, Skype, and Microsoft building various client and server technologies, resulting in multiple patents.

Quetzalli Writes is an author of the book titled 'Docs-as-Ecosystem', which was published by the Apress Publishing Company. Quetzalli has been in tech for 9 years, working with SEO, Paid Search, Full-Stack development, UX, Developer Relations, and Technical Writing (Engineering Documentation). She's currently a core OSS contributor for Docs, DevRel, and Community Building at AsyncAPI Initiative. She's also a member of the AsyncAPI Technical Steering Committee (TSC).

Raphael De Lio is a passionate software engineer who loves to think about solutions and ways to improve anything he touches. He was born in Brazil, lived in Portugal for five years, and now works as a consultant in the Netherlands. In his quest for knowledge, Raphael has always valued learning and sharing insights with others. This pursuit not only led him to Xebia, a place where he found a community of engineers who share his enthusiasm for technology and continuous improvement but also to becoming the co-organizer of the Amsterdam Kotlin MeetUp, where he has been able to enable other speakers to share their knowledge as well.