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.
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. Former Application Architect & Developer, now leading people and teams to help them grow and thrive.
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Jérémie Tarnaud
Fleet Lead Engineer
Jeremie Tarnaud is a seasoned software engineer and founding engineer at Naftiko, with deep experience designing and scaling secure, event-driven backend systems. He brings a rare blend of hands-on architecture, team leadership, and product-facing collaboration across startups and global teams.
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Farah Trigui
Platform Engineer
Farah brings deep knowledge and genuine passion for Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cloud-Native technologies to Naftiko, playing a key role in shaping the foundation of our Framework and Fleet by championing the latest approaches to standardizing and automating our operations.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Bertrand Diard
Co-founder & Chairman at Syroco, Angel Investor & Venture Partner at Serena Capital
Serial entrepreneur who co-founded Talend, one of the most successful open-source data integration companies, and took it to Nasdaq. He went on to co-found Syroco and launch Serena Data Ventures, the first fund specialized in Big Data and AI.
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Jake Stein
Co-founder & CEO at Common Paper
Co-founded RJMetrics (acquired by Magento/Adobe) and Stitch (acquired by Talend), where he served as SVP of Growth. Now building Common Paper to standardize B2B software contracts. A Wharton alum and Y Combinator founder with over 15 years in B2B software.
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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.
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Bonnie Ravina
Marketing advisor. Startup and Scaleup champion
GTM and marketing strategist with 30 years of international B2B tech experience, including launch roles at SAP and go-to-market advisory for Ring Capital. Founder of Full Circle: 360 Marketing, she has helped nearly 40 startups, scaleups, and unicorns position, launch, and grow across the US and Europe.
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Paul Melchiorre
Business advisor. Operating Partner at Stripes
30-year enterprise software veteran and Operating Partner at Stripes. Previously President and CRO at Anaplan, where he helped grow ARR from $80M to $300M+ through a successful IPO. Earlier led global field operations at Ariba through its $5B acquisition and served as EVP of Global Accounts at SAP.
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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.
