Marco Palladino

Founder

Co-founder and CTO of Kong. Self-taught developer since age 13. Leads the technical development of Kong Gateway and the Konnect platform.

Overview

Companies
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Roles

Companies

1 company
Kong $344M
Private

Kong is the company behind the most widely adopted open-source API gateway and service connectivity platform. Originally founded as Mashape (an API marketplace), the company pivoted to focus on its open-source Kong Gateway and rebranded in 2017. Kong Konnect enables enterprises to manage, secure, and observe APIs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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