AMBASSADORS_MEMBERS.yaml

  - name: "Daniel Kocot"
    img: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/466609?v=4"
    bio: "Daniel joined the team at adorsys GmbH & Co. KG as Principal Integration Architect in January 2026. He has been dedicated to integration-related topics for almost 10 years. Initially focusing on gateways and the early days of APIOps, he later shifted his focus to methodologies, strategy, and enterprise architecture. In his daily work with his customers, he attaches particular importance to ensuring that interfaces are not only understood as technical tools."
    title: "Principal Integration Architect"
    github: "danielkocot"
    githubID: 466609
    slack: "U029F3XUYM8"
    twitter: ""
    linkedin: "danielkocot"
    company: "adorsys GmbH & Co. KG"
    country: "🇩🇪"
    isTscMember: true
    tscMemberSince: "2025-05-28"
    contributions:
      - type: "article"
        title: "AsyncAPI - Documentation of event and message-driven architectures"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "September"
        link: "https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2021/09/asyncapi-documentation-event-message-driven-architectures/?hmsr=joyk.com&utm_source=joyk.com&utm_medium=referral"
      - type: "article"
        title: "AsyncAPI specification updates"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "February"
        link: "https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2022/02/asyncapi-version-2-3-0-specification-updates/"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "AsyncAPI 101"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "May"
        link: "https://www.buildingiot.de/veranstaltung-13856-0-asyncapi-101.html"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Adopting AsyncAPI in Enterprisey Contexts, AsyncAPI Conference"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "November"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTcV63jrnU"
  - name: "Giri Venkatesan"
    github: "gvensan"
    githubID: 4477169
    slack: "U02MHRKL2G2"
    twitter: "giri_venkatesan"
    country: "🇮🇳"
    bio: "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."
    linkedin: "girivenkatesan"
    company: "Solace"
    title: "Developer Advocate, Office of the CTO at Solace"
    img: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4477169?s=96&v=4"
    contributions:
      - type: "article"
        title: "Bridging Design and Runtime Gaps: AsyncAPI in Event-Driven Architecture"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "February"
        link: "https://www.linux.com/news/bridging-design-and-runtime-gaps-asyncapi-in-event-driven-architecture/"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Bridging the Gap between Design and Runtime in EDA with AsyncAPI and CI/CD"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "November"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXt-fy82PCk"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Bridging the Gap between Design and Runtime in EDA with AsyncAPI"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "August"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpADLeLNE4"
      - type: "article"
        title: "AsyncAPI + Spring Cloud Stream = Event-Driven Microservices Made Easy"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "November"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EeMHhbwyOQ&t=4142s"
  - name: "Hugo Guerrero"
    img: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1001939?v=4"
    bio: "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."
    github: "hguerrero"
    githubID: 1001939
    slack: "U01H9D8J4H1"
    twitter: "hguerreroo"
    title: "Head of Technical Marketing"
    linkedin: "hugoguerrero"
    company: "Kong"
    country: "🇲🇽"
    isTscMember: true
    tscMemberSince: "2025-06-10"
    isBoardMember: true
    contributions:
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Speed-Up Kafka Delivery with AsyncAPI & Microcks"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "July"
        link: "https://www.confluent.io/events/kafka-summit-apac-2021/speed-up-kafka-delivery-with-asyncapi-and-microcks/"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Automated Apache Kafka Mocking and Testing with AsyncAPI"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "September"
        link: "https://www.confluent.io/events/kafka-summit-americas-2021/automated-apache-kafka-mocking-and-testing-with-asyncapi/"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Event-driven APIs & Schema governance for Apache Kafka, Apidays LIVE Hong Kong"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "August"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwlHJkgaRdw"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Event-driven APIs & Schema governance for Apache Kafka, API Specification Conference"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "August"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ4cJyTw-U0"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Getting started with Event-Driven APIs, Apidays LIVE Paris"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "December"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kIE-qtpwTA&t=9s"
  - name: "Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja"
    github: "ivangsa"
    githubID: 1246876
    slack: "UTCN3ET4M"
    twitter: "ivangsa"
    bio: "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/"
    linkedin: "ivangarciasainzaja"
    company: "ZenWave360"
    title: "Java Architect. Speaker. Building ZenWave 360°."
    img: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1246876?v=4"
    contributions:
      - type: "initiative_driver"
        title: "AsyncAPI Conference On Tour 2023 - Madrid"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbi1gRlP7pihD-7XYb6c9wcTdkavDzF3_"
      - type: "initiative_driver"
        title: "ZenWave SDK - Code Generator for AsyncAPI with Spring Cloud Streams"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "2022"
        link: "https://www.zenwave360.io/zenwave-sdk/plugins/asyncapi-spring-cloud-streams3/"
      - type: "article"
        title: "API-First with AsyncAPI"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "March"
        link: "https://www.zenwave360.io/posts/API-First-with-AsyncAPI-And-ZenWave-SDK/"
      - type: "article"
        title: "ZenWave AsyncAPI Code Generator"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "March"
        link: "https://www.zenwave360.io/posts/ZenWave-AsyncAPI-Code-Generator/"
      - type: "article"
        title: "Generating AsyncAPI definition files from JDL with ZenWaveSDK"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "April"
        link: "https://www.zenwave360.io/posts/JHipster-As-IDL-for-AsyncAPIv2/"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "KIT - API-First with AsyncAPI for Event Driven Architectures"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "May"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWFZfmspFM"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Practical Event Storming with AsyncAPI v3 and ZenWave SDK"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHONzz-a6U"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Code Generation For Enterprise Integration Patterns w/ AsyncAPI & ZenWave SDK"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUsoD8RaCuw"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "AsyncAPI Full Code Generation for Java with ZenWave SDK"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5vt2TLGoaQ"
      - type: "article"
        title: "Transactional OutBox With AsyncAPI, SpringModulith and ZenWaveSDK (full project and tutorial)"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "April"
        link: "https://www.zenwave360.io/posts/TransactionalOutBoxWithAsyncAPIAndSpringModulith/"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Arquitecturas Event-Driven y Monolitos Modulares con AsyncAPI"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "May"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08MWIWljbIQ"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Event-Driven Architectures with Spring Modulith and AsyncAPI"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "May"
        link: "https://2025.springio.net/sessions/event-driven-architectures-with-spring-modulith-and-asyncapi/"
      - type: "article"
        title: "ZenWave AsyncAPI Generator"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.zenwave360.io/zenwave-sdk/plugins/asyncapi-generator/"
      - type: "article"
        title: "ShoppingCart with AsyncAPI (full project and tutorial)"
        date:
          year: 2026
          month: "Jan"
        link: "https://www.zenwave360.io/docs/examples/eda-examples/asyncapi-shopping-cart/"
  - name: "Ludovic Dussart"
    github: "M3lkior"
    githubID: 5501911
    slack: "U01BM49KL3Z"
    twitter: "ldussart"
    country: "🇫🇷"
    bio: "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."
    linkedin: "ludovic-dussart-846a8063"
    company: "zatsit"
    title: "Solutions Architect / DevRel"
    img: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5501911?s=400&u=d3f33c22f67788aba810ba8e910452aff62ad7c9&v=4"
    contributions:
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "From specification to production, how to provide a living doc of your asynchronous exchanges?"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "November"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhRbvrf6Rs"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "AsyncApi Conference 2021 - Panel discussion"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "November"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/live/3EeMHhbwyOQ?feature=share&t=23438"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture - Meetup Ineat"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "January"
        link: ""
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at AXA"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "March"
        link: ""
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at NoConsulting"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "March"
        link: ""
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at Adeo"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "April"
        link: ""
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at Decathlon"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "April"
        link: ""
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at Sfeir Lille"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "January"
        link: ""
      - type: "article"
        title: "AsyncAPI - Adeo case study"
        date:
          year: 2023
        link: "https://www.asyncapi.com/casestudies/adeogroup"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at Sfeir Paris"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "March"
        link: ""
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Standardisez votre monde d'événements en documentant vos EDA avec AsyncAPI ! - Cloud Nord 2023"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMmQVppV6s"
      - type: "special contribution"
        title: "Stay at API Days AsyncAPI Booth to share with attendees."
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "December"
        link: ""
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Quoi de neuf dans AsyncAPI v3 ? Découvrez le en live avec la migration du use-case Adeo"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "December"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCK9_ZDv6K4"
  - name: "Hari Krishnan"
    github: "harikrishnan83"
    githubID: 126087
    slack: "U067JPY0UH5"
    twitter: "harikrishnan83"
    linkedin: "harikrishnan83"
    country: "🇮🇳"
    bio: "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. His areas of interest include distributed systems, AI native products, AI augmented and agentic software delivery."
    company: "Polarizer Technologies"
    title: "Founder, and CEO at Polarizer Technologies"
    img: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harikrishnan83/harikrishnan83/master/HariKrishnan-profile.jpg"
    isTscMember: true
    tscMemberSince: "2025-01-21"
    contributions:
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Kafka and JMS Mocking with AsyncAPI"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "November"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yRf75p_kTU"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Unshackling Your System Under Test: Shift-Left Testing Through Dependency Isolation (Kafka Mocks with AsyncAPI specification)"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "June"
        link: "https://confengine.com/conferences/selenium-conf-2024/proposal/20021/unshackling-your-system-under-test-shift-left-testing-through-dependency-isolation"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Using API spec as an Executable Contract To Mock and Test Microservices"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiM20HTCerM"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Contract-Driven Development for Event-Driven Architectures"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "December"
        link: "https://conference.asyncapi.com/venue/Paris"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Unifying OpenAPI & AsyncAPI: Designing JSON Schemas + Examples for Reuse"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "May"
        link: "https://www.openapis.org/events/apidays-new-york-2025"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Reliable AWS Lambda Data Pipelines with AsyncAPI Specification"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "August"
        link: "https://conferences.gotopia.tech/goto-serverless-bengaluru-2025/sessions/3845/reliable-aws-lambda-data-pipelines-with-asyncapi-specification"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "AsyncAPI 2.6 to 3.0: Migrating Safely with No-Code Backward Compatibility Checks"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.apidays.global/events/india"
  - name: "Laurent Broudoux"
    github: "lbroudoux"
    githubID: 1538635
    slack: "U018NLDV5E1"
    twitter: "lbroudoux"
    country: "🇫🇷"
    bio: "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."
    linkedin: "laurentbroudoux"
    company: "Postman"
    title: "Solutions Architect / DevRel"
    img: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1538635?s=400&v=4"
    contributions:
      - type: "talk"
        title: "AsyncAPI unit testing - from nightmares to sweet dreams"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "December"
        link: ""
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Using Testcontainers for AsyncAPI unit testing"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "September"
        link: ""
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "Quoi de neuf dans AsyncAPI v3 ? Découvrez le en live avec la migration du use-case Adeo"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "December"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCK9_ZDv6K4"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Elevating Event-Driven Architecture: Boost your delivery with AsyncAPI and Microcks"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "December"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYEW3F91wbI"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "AsyncAPI Recipes for EDA Gourmet"
        date:
          year: 2022
          month: "November"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6vWzTF7LGI"
      - type: "presentation"
        title: "AsyncAPI or CloudEvents? Both My Captain!"
        date:
          year: 2021
          month: "November"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9RyClgYhE"
  - name: "Naresh Jain"
    github: "nashjain"
    githubID: 38799
    slack: "U07QPEBAC9Y"
    twitter: "nashjain"
    linkedin: "http://linkedin.com/in/nareshjain/"
    country: "🇮🇳"
    isTscMember: true
    tscMemberSince: "2025-05-28"
    bio: "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"
    company: "Specmatic, Xnsio, ConfEngine"
    title: "Founder, CEO at Specmatic, Xnsio and ConfEngine"
    img: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/38799?v=4"
    contributions:
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Multi-Protocol APIs: Designing a Unified Interface for EDA"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "April"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQVo498NtOI"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "TMForum's AsyncAPIs For a New Era of Event-Driven Architecture"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "December"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2W1058nPyU"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Project API Forge: Streamlining Dev-First API Lifecycle Management"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "December"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfopdGddnLc"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "10x DevEx: Shift-Left API Governance = CycleTime/2"
        date:
          year: 2024
          month: "October"
        link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5eplxVQrhI"
  - name: "Ankit Kumar"
    github: "ankitk-me"
    githubID: 6847653
    slack: "U05G8N33D51"
    twitter: "ankitm_me"
    linkedin: "ankit28"
    country: "🇮🇳"
    bio: "Ankit Kumar leads Developer and Customer Success at Aklivity, bringing over eight years of experience in API infrastructure, streaming platforms, and event-driven architectures. He’s an advocate for modern API connectivity, helping developers adopt event-driven systems through community engagement and shared best practices."
    company: "Aklivity"
    title: "Head of Developer and Customer Success"
    img: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6847653?v=4"
    contributions:
      - type: "talk"
        title: "Dynamic API Delivery with Zilla: Unleashing the Power of AsyncAPI in EDAs"
        date:
          year: 2023
          month: "November"
        link: "https://youtu.be/3iFdszHUpgI?si=Z4voghTDAgb-nyUP"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "AsyncAPI v3: Streamlining Event-Driven API Design"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "April"
        link: "https://youtu.be/iFXYNubBmQc?si=YN_ShCs9ZDwi1aEk"
      - type: "booth"
        title: "Manned the AsyncAPI booth during APIDays Singapore to connect with developers and promote the AsyncAPI initiative."
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "April"
        link: ""
      - type: "article"
        title: "AsyncAPI v3: Streamlining Event-Driven API Design"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "May"
        link: "https://www.aklivity.io/post/asyncapi-v3-streamlining-event-driven-api-design"
      - type: "article"
        title: "AsyncAPI's Role in Next Gen API Management"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "September"
        link: "https://www.aklivity.io/post/asyncapis-role-in-next-gen-api-management"
      - type: "talk"
        title: "AsyncAPI's Role in Shift Left Streaming Architectures"
        date:
          year: 2025
          month: "October"
        link: "https://confengine.com/conferences/apidays-india-2025/proposal/22979/asyncapis-role-in-shift-left-streaming-architectures"