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.

Hari Krishnan has over two decades of experience in building high-performing teams, designing scalable systems, and driving technical strategy for large enterprises and high-growth startups across industries like finance, telecom, logistics, and retail. As Founder and CEO of Polarizer Technologies he has led enterprise-wide initiatives in architecture, developer experience, test automation and AI adoption. He combines deep technical expertise with executive vision, having worked closely with CXOs on strategy, delivery assurance, and organizational agility. He is widely recognized for his contributions to API governance, platform engineering, and contract-driven development. He has spoken at several conferences including APIDays (New York, Paris), Developer Week Sunnyvale, NordicAPIs Platform Summit, GoTo Copenhagen, API Specification Conference (#ASC2022), API World, SeleniumConf, Agile2021, Agile India, TestingUY 2021, SREConf, PyCon Singapore, RubyConf India. He actively contributes to several open-source projects including Specmatic and Perfiz. His areas of interest include distributed systems, AI-native products and exploring how AI can be leveraged to rethink software delivery and next-gen developer experience.

Hugo Guerrero is a developer advocate with over 20 years of hands-on experience in software development. He’s worked across the stack as a developer, consultant, architect, and software factory manager. Hugo is a strong advocate for event-driven systems and actively contributes to open source communities, including AsyncAPI. He maintains the Microcks Docker Desktop Extension and regularly shares practical insights on APIs, distributed systems, and developer tooling.

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/

Laurent is a Cloud-Native Architecture expert and Enterprise Integration problem lover. He is the founder and lead developer of the Microcks.io open-source project: a cloud-native tool for API mocking and testing. For this, he is using his 10+ years experience as an architect in Financial Services where he defined API transformation strategies, including governance and delivery process.

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.

Naresh is an internationally recognised Technology & Product Development Expert. Over the last 25 years, he has played a key role in streamlining the product engineering culture at many unicorns and fortune 500 companies. Naresh is the Founder, CEO of several companies - Xnsio, ConfEngine and Specmatic. Naresh is also the local organiser of API Days India. In 2004, Naresh started the Agile movement in India. More details: https://nareshjain.com

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).