Architecting, coding and managing software applications/projects that are fully aligned with the business is what gives me energy! As a business engineer with a love for software engineering it is my passion to build scalable applications backed by a solid business strategy. When this is not the case, I will not rest before the business and the software team gets aligned before wasting any more time and energy.

Founder and Chief Technology Officer. Allard is a global thought-leader on event sourcing. He is a recognised expert with more than 20 years experience, including microservices, event sourcing and event-driven architecture. Allard advocates for better collaboration between developers and business.

Strategist Ardan Thornhill spent the first decade of her career working in journalism and media production to explore and satisfy a wide range of interests. She comes to the software world after a stint in VR marketing got her pondering about the ‘pipes’ that keep our digital world flowing. When not working at her desk, she’s probably still at her desk, researching the current daily curiosity – or out traveling a new corner of the world.

AxonIQ is a fast-growing enterprise software company and is rapidly becoming the place to be in event sourcing, DDD, and CQRS.

Ben Runchey is a Solutions Engineer at AxonIQ specializing in helping customers harness the full potential of Axon Server and Axon Framework. With 15 years of experience in event-driven architectures and 5+ years with AxonIQ technologies, Ben brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. He's passionate about systems that utilize events to capture business value. Customers are in capable hands with Ben's expertise, whether implementing event-driven architectures or leveraging the Axon ecosystem. Outside of work, Ben resides in Minneapolis, where he enjoys spending quality time with his family.

Senior Software Architect and Developer at AxonIQ. From hands-on software development to academic research on software reusability. Bert is a strong proponent of good software design, Agile and Lean software development, and DevOps practices.

Bruce has over 30 years of experience working with the Java language, and has been an Oracle Java Champion for over 15 years. He is the author of the book, “ChatGPT for Java”, by Apress Publishers, where he shows developers how to build intelligent applications with the Java language. He works for the Developer Relations team at AxonIQ.

Software Engineer. For Axon Framework and an advocate for DDD, CQRS and event sourcing. Christian advocates the event-driven approach to free up organisations to focus on working for their customers.

Software Engineer. Corrado is driven by curiosity and his love of learning. His personal skills are focused on the Backend technology, but his curiosity pushes him to get his hands dirty with DevOps and frontend stacks as well. He loves to share his knowledge with other developers. And because of that, he is involved in training, client support, and recently, as a speaker at AxonIQ Italia Community events.

Senior Developer Advocate. David is an experienced software developer and Java specialist instructor. A respected developer advocate, his experience includes sectors as diverse as banking, defence, services and retail, maritime and ground transport.

Frank Scheffler is Senior Solution Architect and co-founder of Digital Frontiers. He has many years of experience as a consultant and coach in the areas of microservices, software quality and agile transformation. His current focus is on CQRS/ES based architectures with Axon. He supports his customers in setting up and developing digital customer channels.

Frans was an evangelist at AxonIQ. He worked with existing and prospective Axon Framework users, specifically looking at how AxonIQ's products and services can help them be successful. Also, he told the world about Axon by speaking at conferences, running webinars, writing blogs, etc. Before joining AxonIQ, Frans was a presales architect representing Fortify, the world's leading application security testing portfolio, having worked as both a Java architect and security consultant before that.

Solution Engineer and Developer Advocate. With more than 12 years of experience in IT, starting as a Java Software Developer in a Belgian financial institution, Frédéric was quickly seduced by distributed architectures. He specialized in DDD using CQRS and Event Sourcing. Using these principles to create a new e-payment system using AxonIQ solutions.

Greg is a Software Engineer specializing in developing Event Sourced Microservices systems. Prior to joining AxonIQ he researched Safety-Critical Software before moving to the UK Civil Service where he worked on EU wide systems and his passion for Event Sourcing was established. Equally concerned about deployment of applications as well as writing them, Greg has end to end experience delivering software that maximizes the advantages of cloud infrastructure.

Software Engineer. With over 10 years of experience as a backend engineer, Gerard Klijs is a contributor to several GraphQL libraries, and also the creator and maintainer of a Rust library to use Confluent Schema Registry. He has an interest in event sourcing and CQRS and likes sharing knowledge via blogs, talks, and demo projects.

Partner Manager. Henk has more than 30 years of experience in IT. He started as a developer, but also worked in management roles where he often was a bridge between IT and business. Since 2012 Henk has been exclusively involved in projects that were using an event-driven approach.

Jessica Reeves is the CEO of AxonIQ, where she brings deep experience scaling open source and enterprise tech at Anaconda and ClearDATA. She’s known for translating complex systems into business value, building high-trust teams, and staying close to users. Her focus: build fast, lead with empathy, and grow sustainably.

Solutions architect with significant experience in designing full stack application components and providing guidance to the solution teams in development and implementation. Skilled in a wide variety of technology stacks and learning quickly new technologies as needed. Experience covers all facets of design patterns, software architecture, continuous delivery, agile methodologies and best practices in constructing solutions that remain scalable, adaptable and replicable. Strong engineering professional with the Master of Science (MSc) focused on Computer Science from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics.

Marc has years of experience in product and custom development in various languages. He is interested in building high-performance, high-volume applications in distributed environments. He is also focused on creating functionality that is important to users of the products. From his previous experience, he has a strong interest in machine learning.

Software Engineer - Axon Server. Marco works with AxonIQ to bring DCB to life in Axon Server. He enjoys systems programming and likes to make things work behind the curtains. Other topics you can have a chat with him about are mmap, performance, Rust, and hiking.

Marc Klefter is a Senior Solutions Architect at AxonIQ, helping organizations succeed in building mission-critical, event-sourced systems. He is the author of the AxonIQ Playbook.

Software Engineer. Milan builds the tools to help others build even-driven, reactive systems, based on his extensive experience in using CQRS and event sourcing.

Solutions Architect for Axon Framework at AxonIQ. Mitchell is a software craftsman, passionate coder, and eager to learn. He likes complex challenges and he doesn't get discouraged easily. He is interested in the following topics; Kotlin/Java, Event-Sourcing / CQRS / Axon Framework, Cloud/AWS/Infrastructure as Code, and performance tuning. After his study, in Computer Science at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, he worked as a software engineer at ING Bank, Codecentric, and the Port of Rotterdam.

Developer Advocate. Milen helps fellow Java developers to design and build clean, modular and future proof software. His primary focus is on advocating for developer communities.

Mohamed Essam is a Learning Experience Designer at AxonIQ and freelance learning consultant and business developer. He has 11+ years experience in learning and development blended with IT retail sales and marketing industry, he has been an independent self employed consultant for 5 years excelling in various selling, soft skills and technical programs. Mohamed is an APTD (Associate Professional in Talent Development) certified from ATD, USA - Game design & Development Certified from Michigan state university, USA - Instructional Design Certificate HRCI, USA - UX Design Cross Skilling Certificate, Udacity. He decided to dedicate all his efforts in order to help youth and professionals achieve their personal & career goals by merging gamification, UX, and learning together.

Paul Kuyer is the Product Architect at AxonIQ. Before that, he was a philosopher. He loves creating things and people who create. His goal is to understand and learn from developers. Always looking for great conversations.

DACH Region Director. Ralf has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software, sales, business development and got to market strategy, gained primarily in the US and Europe.

Sandra was the Marketing Manager for EMEA at AxonIQ in 2021 and she aims to get the world to know the benefits of using Axon Server and Axon Cloud. She was helping software companies to generate brand awareness and create business worldwide for more than 15 years. Extremely energetic, you can find her on a tradeshow at the same time that she can be managing a virtual event, writing a press release, or publishing an online campaign

Software Engineer, Continuous Learner. An enthusiastic and proactive IT freelance professional who specializes in distributed architectures. Able to see things from a different perspective, with a broad approach to software development, from coding skills to high-level architectural view. Since 2018 she collaborates with AxonIQ, helping people implement reliable event-driven distributed systems.

Sara Torrey is a software developer at AxonIQ. She is a self-taught backend developer, who has worked with various programming languages and frameworks, namely Java and Spring Boot. She comes from a rather unusual background; she studied Music in university and graduate school.

Specialties: DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Axon, camunda, BPM, BPMN, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Systems, Java Enterprise, Methods, Scrum, Agile, ALM, DevOps

Senior Software Engineer Stefan has years of experience and passion to software architecture, reactive programming and JVM technologies.

Lead Developer - Axon Framework. Steven has a keen interest in Axon Framework and how it approaches software architecture. He helps small and large clients build Axon applications, provides training, develops the framework and is active in the Axon community. Broader interests include domain driven design, messaging patterns and event sourcing.

Corporate Account Executive - North America. Ted has experience in consultative selling and business development in the infrastructure and cloud field stemming from his time working with a major cloud provider and now AxonIQ.

Tobias Ammann ist Software Architekt für Ergonomics AG in Zürich. Er schreibt Software für Menschen und manchmal auch für Computer.

Architect, DDD, CQRS, and event sourcing evangelist. Vijay is author of "Practical Domain-Driven Design with Enterprise Java" and a prolific writer and presenter on DDD, CQRS, and event sourcing.

Yvonne has more than two decades of experience and is passionate about Java and the Spring Framework. She focusses on helping companies to use and implement the Axon Framework.