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Kong Summit 2019: Building the Next Era of Software
Talks about Conference, San Francisco and Microservices
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Marco Palladino
Founder of Kong Inc.
San Francisco, California
Overview
Marco Palladino is the CTO at Kong, where he co-founded the company and has played a pivotal role in building scalable architecture and leading strong teams. He has a successful track record of co-founding companies like Mashape API Marketplace and MemboxX, and has also made strategic investments in promising startups like mobile.dev and Wasmer.
Work Experience
Co-Founder and CTO
2017 - Current
Kong is a cloud-native platform that powers API-led connectivity for developer productivity, automating security, and microservices.
Raised $344,101,000.00 from CRV, Tiger Global Management, Notable Capital, Balderton Capital, 137 Ventures, Teachers’ Venture Growth, Index Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Member, Business Governance Board @ The Open API Initiative (OAI)
2016
The Open API Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how REST APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. SmartBear Software is donating the Swagger Specification directly to the OAI as the basis of this Open Specification. https://openapis.org/
The Linux Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and industry adoption.
Co-founder/CTO
2010 - 2017
Mashape API Marketplace was acquired by RapidAPI in 2017 [1]. Mashape raised Angel, Seed and Series A rounds from tier-1 investors while pioneering the concept of using APIs as a business and backbone of software infrastructure. In 2015 Mashape became the largest API Hub with over 300,000 developers and 20,000 APIs [2]. [1] - https://appdevelopermagazine.com/5236/2017/5/31/rapidapi-acquired-the-mashape-marketplace/ [2] - http://www.eweek.com/development/rapidapi-buys-mashape-hub-to-create-world-s-largest-api-marketplace
Co-Founder
2007 - 2009
MemboxX was a web service created to save, store and share any kind of documents, like, pdf, word, or photos and to manage safely all your passwords and pins.