Authors

Willy released the first version of HAProxy in 2001, welcomed the first contribution in 2004, and became a Linux kernel maintainer in 2006. His focus has always been on the lower layers where efficiency can still be improved after everything was squeezed at visible layers, and on reliability, probably because he hates revisiting complex code.

Baptiste Assmann is Director of Product at HAProxy Technologies. An expert in load balancing and high-performance architectures, he plays a key role in HAProxy's evolution within the Cloud Native ecosystem. A regular speaker, he shares his expertise on the scalability and security of modern applications.

Nick creates technical content for HAProxy Technologies ranging from documentation and blog posts to Wikipedia articles, GitHub READMEs and Stack Overflow answers. With a background in web development and DevOps, he has fun digging into product features and discovering the optimal path for a new blog tutorial.

Daniel is a Content Strategist at HAProxy Technologies, writing about load balancing, high availability, and application security — from foundational concepts to the architecture decisions behind systems built to handle massive scale.

Iwan is a marketing leader focused on bringing HAProxy's app delivery solutions to market and connecting with our audience. He has over fifteen years' experience in app delivery, networking, and telecoms. In that time, Iwan has been responsible for product documentation, web dev, automation, reporting, and content. He writes extensively for a IT / DevOps / cloud-native audience.

Jakub Suchy is the Director of Solutions Engineering at HAProxy Technologies, where he designs and prototypes solutions for application delivery and load balancing infrastructure. With his background in Linux infrastructure and Open Source Applications, he specializes in developing innovative approaches to modern application delivery challenges, focusing on micro-services architecture and high-availability systems.

Tyler is a writer for HAProxy Technologies, creating content highlighting internal technical developments, technologies, and more. Having worked with SaaS, PaaS, and IT companies—including Docker—Tyler loves breaking down complex software technologies and crafting technical walkthroughs for diverse audiences.

Ron Northcutt, Director of Technical Marketing at HAProxy Technologies, leverages his deep industry knowledge and over 25 years of open-source experience and contributions to create impactful content around performance metrics, developer engagement, and HAProxy's versatile solutions. Bridging the gap between technical teams and business needs, his expertise in technical product marketing, solutions architecture, and empowering developers ensures his insights are valuable and directly address the real-world challenges technical audiences face.

Zlatko is a Team Lead at HAProxy, with a strong background in software engineering and over 10 years of experience. He is an expert in different technologies and business processes. Outside of work, he is a Go evangelist, organizer of Golang Zagreb meetup, puzzle enthusiast and shares his knowledge with new generations as an external associate at University of Zagreb.

Chad Lavoie is the Director of Support for HAProxy Technologies. Chad specializes in HAProxy configurations for request processing, web scraping/DDoS protection, and some scripting for flavor.

Marko is the team lead and software engineer for the Go ecosystem of HAProxy. He is passionate about delivering high performance, secure, and resilient applications, and is committed to writing clean and maintainable code. In his free time, Marko enjoys staying active, even if he's just a below average amateur rugby player and a wannabe cyclist.

Ashley is a technical writer for HAProxy Technologies with over a decade of experience in software development, CI/CD, and automated QA in the telecom and marketing data spaces. Through this technical lens, Ashley enjoys developing content with DevOps in mind. Ashley loves the challenge of testing intricate software features and configurations to find effective documentation solutions to complex problems.

Amina writes about what’s new with HAProxy Technologies. She enjoys communicating complex ideas clearly, helping broad audiences to access information about emerging technologies. Amina finds art in everyday life and nurtures a deep-rooted love for literature and language.

Christopher Faulet has been developing on HAProxy for ten years and has spent the past nine years at HAProxy Technologies as a member of the core development team.

Frank Mancina serves as Vice President of Engineering and Operations at HAProxy Technologies, where he leads the development of world-class application delivery solutions. With over 20 years of experience in technology leadership, he has built a distinguished track record of scaling high-performing engineering teams and delivering enterprise-grade solutions across diverse senior leadership roles.

Andjelko is the VP of Architecture at HAProxy Technologies. He is responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of solutions and services at all scales—from low-level, microsecond-optimized software to massive automated clusters processing tens of billions of requests per day. Andjelko works with tools such as Python, C, Golang and many more.

CEO, HAProxy Technologies

Sean has over 20 years of experience as a sales engineer and product manager. His career spans roles in application delivery, networking, virtualization, and real-time OS deployment for the medical, industrial, and aerospace fields. In his free time, he enjoys cinema, sailing, and gardening.

Senior System and Network Engineer, HAProxy Technologies

Vedran is the Director of Data Science at HAProxy Technologies. His core focus areas have included web server optimization and performance tuning, as well as cluster automation and orchestration. Recently, however, Vedran has dove deeply into big data analysis, data mining, and machine learning—while applying these techniques to enhance the security layers in HAProxy One.

Alban manages HAProxy Technologies' French office and directs the Engineering team housed there. With 20 years of banking experience in France, Alban has since helped drive HAProxy's regional growth and bolster our industry footprint for six years. Outside of work, he's an avid reader (mainly sci-fi and fantasy) and enjoys playing role-playing games (RPGs).

Amaury Denoyelle is currently a software engineer for HAProxy Technologies. His previous endeavors include him working on embedded systems, multimedia, and networking, making his experience with modern technologies that much more versatile. Amaury’s main connection to all of these industries has been Linux and his love for all things running a Linux kernel, with which he fell in love during his studies.

Site Reliability Engineer turned Software Engineer at HAProxy Technologies. I work on Kubernetes integrations for HAProxy Fusion Control Plane. Experienced with large scale and on-premesis Kubernetes clusters.

David Arias is a Solutions Engineer at HAProxy Technologies, where he works with customers to design, implement, and optimize modern application delivery and load balancing solutions. With a strong background in DevOps practices, Linux systems, and networking technologies, he focuses on helping organizations build scalable, resilient, and high-performance infrastructures. His areas of specialization include microservices architectures, Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, automation, high-availability platforms, and secure application delivery.

Hélène is a Senior Go Software Developer at HAProxy with 30+ years of experience in software development, ranging from C/C++ to Go. She has a passion for creating efficient and scalable solutions. For the past five years, Hélène has been an avid Kubernetes enthusiast adept at deploying, managing, and orchestrating containerized applications. She enjoys working alongside her talented colleagues at HAProxy with a shared commitment to excellence and innovation.

Leo is a technical writer for HAProxy Technologies. He has worked in the software industry for over 9 years, wearing many hats: technical writer, knowledge manager, customer success engineer, customer support representative, software engineer, and on-call DevOps engineer. Leo enjoys simplifying complex topics for diverse audiences.

Nathan is currently a Support Engineer at HAProxy—being both a self-proclaimed master of nothing and a student of everything networking-related. He enjoys troubleshooting complex issues where he can analyze the data to prove or disprove issues. While Nathan regularly jumps from topic to topic, he's always enjoyed using packet captures and analysis to really inspect what is happening at all levels of the network flow.