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We began by creating a model with the community version to assess its capabilities. Once we confirmed that this tool met our needs, we opted for an enterprise license. Simply to benefit from tools that facilitate integration into our model and address specific requirements of our architecture in terms of security, data transformation, and authentication management.
Nicolas Gabetty
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Meet the KrakenD Team

KrakenD started in late 2016 as a library for engineers to create fast and reliable API Gateways in no time. Today KrakenD is a fully-fledged open source API gateway and the reference stateless API gateway.

Daniel Ortiz
Co-founder & Head of Platform
Daniel López
Co-founder & Chief Architect
Albert Lombarte
Co-founder & CEO
Albert García
Co-founder & CSO
Jorge Tarrero
Head of Engineering
David Hontecillas
Senior Engineer
Narcis Davins
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Toni Pinel
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Background Pattern

Launched In

2016

Servers Running

2M+

KrakenD Customers In

23 countries

KrakenD is an independent company of Circeus, the AI-native holding company that powers modern enterprises with mission-critical software. Read more.

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(152 Code Committers)

We appreciate the following developers for enhancing KrakenD through their pull requests, listed by contribution count. We're also grateful for the numerous non-code contributors.
Thank you all!

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