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Meet the crew

Naftiko was founded by Jérôme Louvel and Kin Lane, longtime builders and thinkers in the API world, united by a vision to modernize API consumption and integration for the cloud-native era.

Core team

Jérôme Louvel
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder

Founder of Restlet and former API leader at Talend, Jerome has decades of experience building frameworks and platforms developers trust. He brings deep technical vision and an enterprise-grade approach to building Industrial-grade infra.

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Kin Lane
Chief Community Officer & Co-founder

Known globally as the API Evangelist, Kin has spent over a decade shaping API standards, governance, and developer experience. His work at Postman and Bloomberg pairs with his research on OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema… all now converging into Naftiko’s open-source core.

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Thomas Eskenazi
Head of Engineering

Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience, combining technical expertise and strategic leadership. FormerApplication Architect & Developer, now leading people and teams to help them grow and thrive.My specialities are : Keeping People engaged, Production Software, Managing managers, Analysis and Troubleshooting.

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Navi
First mate

A cat–dolphin hybrid born from the seas of software, Navi is the crew’s curious guide. Independent yet collaborative, playful yet precise, Navi helps teams navigate complexity with confidence. As Naftiko’s first mate, Navi brings warmth to the rigour — a quiet guardian when you need clarity, and a clever ally when you’re ready to explore new waters.

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Board members

Our board combines deep experience in technology, open source, and scaling global platforms — guiding Naftiko as it sets course for the next horizon.
Jérôme Louvel
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder

Founder of Restlet and former API leader at Talend, Jerome has decades of experience building frameworks and platforms developers trust. He brings deep technical vision and an enterprise-grade approach to building Industrial-grade infra.

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Kin Lane
Chief Community Officer & Co-founder

Known globally as the API Evangelist, Kin has spent over a decade shaping API standards, governance, and developer experience. His work at Postman and Bloomberg pairs with his research on OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema… all now converging into Naftiko’s open-source core.

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Guillaume Decugis
VC at Serena

Tech founder in Paris, SF and NYC (4 exits) turned early-stage VC. Now investing Serena's €100m Data Ventures fund in teams with top engineering or research talent, building transformational technology in AI/Data with a global ambition (AI models, AI/Data infrastructure, devtools...).

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Laurent Py
Entrepreneur, Product Leader, Senior Advisor

I love solving complex business problems and building high performing teams. I make sure teams understand the WHY of their work. I push them to think about their impacts and align around aggressive business outcomes. I have a successful track record in driving organic and inorganic growth, leading cross-functional teams to build software from ideation, to launch and scale.

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Bertrand Diard
Co-founder & Chairman at Syroco, Angel Investor & Venture Partner at Serena Capital
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Jake Stein
Co-founder & CEO at Common Paper
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Advisory board

Our advisory board brings together industry veterans, technologists, and ecosystem leaders helping Naftiko align open-source innovation with real-world adoption.
Antoine Buhl
Technology advisor. CTO and Entrepreneur | Tech.Rocks Core Team Member

I am a results-driven technology leader with a proven track record of scaling SaaS tech teams from 2 to 200+ people internationally. Successfully contributed as CTO to 1 exit (Availpro) and 5 mergers/acquisitions, integrating teams, platforms, and processes in complex build-up environments.

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Bonnie Ravina
Marketing advisor. Startup and Scaleup champion

I've worked with nearly 40 B2B and B2B2C tech startups, scaleups, unicorns and market leaders around the world to help them position, launch and grow.

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Paul Melchiorre
Business advisor. Operating Partner at Stripes
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The journey so far

Kin’s research and storytelling with API Evangelist, now funneled into Naftiko
Jérôme’s frameworks and platforms that shaped modern API ecosystems
A shared belief in community-driven, open-source innovation
Developers have lived too long with patchwork integrations and brittle glue code. Naftiko exists to change that.
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The journey so far

Timeline with anchors labeled 2010 and 2016 and red-orange buoys labeled 2012 and 2020 on stylized water waves - Naftiko
Kin’s research and storytelling with API Evangelist, now funneled into Naftiko
Jérôme’s frameworks and platforms that shaped modern API ecosystems
A shared belief in community-driven, open-source innovation
Developers have lived too long with patchwork integrations and brittle glue code. Naftiko exists to change that.
Explore more of what we’re building