Lightbend has changed its name to Akka, a platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Industry titans and disruptors rely on Akka when application responsiveness must be guaranteed. Engineering teams use a simple SDK and powerful libraries to build transactional, durable, and real-time services that distribute logic and data together. Operations are fully automated in serverless and BYOC environments, and a self-hosted option is available. 



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Akka

Akka's headquarters in San Francisco, CA, United States

Jonas Bonér

Darin Bartik

Ken Hoffman

Nicole Goulart

Michael Nash

Daniel De Mos

Enno Runne

Abby Kearns

The Software Engineering Team at Lightbend is responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing our open-source application frameworks such as Akka, Play, and Lagom, as well as our streaming and serverless offerings like Cloudflow and Cloudstate. This team ensures the scalability, resilience, and real-time capabilities of our products, supporting our mission to help clients build cloud-native, real-time applications. Collaborating closely with reliability engineers and tech leads, they also contribute to the evolution of the Scala programming language and provide developer support to ensure robust performance and seamless user experience.

Software Engineering Team

The Engineering Team at Lightbend focuses on developing and maintaining innovative, cloud-native application frameworks and tools, including Akka, Play, Lagom, and Cloudflow. They work on enhancing the scalability, resilience, and real-time capabilities of these technologies while ensuring seamless integration with streaming data and microservices architectures. Additionally, the team collaborates closely with customers and partners to provide technical solutions, support, and enablement, driving the adoption and success of Lightbend’s open-source software and enterprise products.

Engineering Team

The Leadership Team at Lightbend is responsible for steering the company's strategic vision and operational execution. Comprising key executives from engineering, marketing, and security, they collaborate to innovate and drive the development of cloud-native and real-time applications, ensuring alignment with industry trends and customer needs. This team plays a crucial role in defining Lightbend's market positioning and fostering a culture of high performance and resilience within the organization.

Leadership Team

The Customer Success and Sales team at Lightbend focuses on ensuring client satisfaction and driving sales growth across different regions. They work closely with customers to understand their needs and deliver effective solutions while overseeing sales operations to optimize performance. This team plays a pivotal role in fostering long-term client relationships and expanding the company's market presence globally.

Customer Success and Sales

The Marketing Team at Lightbend focuses on promoting and enhancing the company's brand identity and product awareness. They develop and execute strategic marketing campaigns, create compelling content to engage potential and existing clients, and facilitate events like Reactive Summit and Scala Days to showcase Lightbend’s innovations. This team aims to drive customer acquisition, retention, and market positioning for Lightbend's offerings, including Akka, Play, Lagom, Cloudflow, Cloudstate, and Scala.

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