About the Program
Who They Are
Our developer advocates are seasoned IT pros with years of experience helping enterprises develop, deploy and integrate all kinds of applications, information sources and microservices as part of diverse use cases.
What It’s For
If you’re facing a challenge related to event-driven anything, our advocates can improve your experience with Solace by helping you understand relevant techniques and technologies. They’d also love to hear about your experience with our products, including creative things you’ve done with them and suggestions for ways we can improve them
What it’s not For
This program isn’t to resolve specific product issues — we’ve got a crack 24×7 support team standing by to help with that.
It’s also not for project-specific implementation help or troubleshooting – if that’s what you need please talk to our professional services team.
Our Developer Advocates
Now that you know what this program is and and how it can help you, learn about our advocates and decide which one you think you’d have the most fruitful conversation with. Whether you want to send them a message or book a meeting, please include a detailed description of what you’d like to talk about in your request.
Aaron Lee
Aaron is based in Singapore, but over the course of his 10+ years with Solace he’s bounced around the world — Hong Kong, London, New York, and his hometown Ottawa. He’ll happily discuss EDA, microservices, networking protocols, application design, monitoring, time-series data, and visualization frameworks for as long as you’ll listen.
He’s built demos of Solace tech, led developer workshops, and actively creates content in the form of blog posts and a growing collection of YouTube videos. Learn More
Tamimi Ahmad
Tamimi has been with Solace for 4 years, during which time he’s run scores of virtual events for individual developers and partners alike, frequently presenting or facilitating tutorials and hands-on workshops.
He came to Solace from Qlik where he specialized in business intelligence and data analytics solutions, and before that YouI.tv where he was an automation specialist a video streaming platform. Learn More
Giri Venkatesan
Giri started his engineering journey in the EAI/B2B space, and in addition to his experience with event-driven architecture and integration, he’s an expert on master data management, microservices, Spring, and other low-code/no-code frameworks.
He is a huge fan of open-source standards and applications, and loves to identify and explore tools and frameworks that help businesses increase efficiency and productivity. Learn More
Hari Rangarajan
Hari’s background is in software engineering – EDA, Java, Microservice, the works. He’s passionate about agile development, DevOps, and about how programming fits into sustainability discussions, specifically identifying ways to make good technology choices from a green perspective.
These days he’s focused on evaluating emerging technologies, practices, and frameworks to see how they can best serve enterprises’ long-term interests and ambitions. Learn More
Marc DiPasquale
Marc has been designing enterprise IT systems and developing event-driven applications for years in the aviation, healthcare, and weather sectors. He’s published articles, codelabs and tutorials about EDA, is sought after as a speaker at developer conferences and user groups, and has led lots of hackathons, POCs and developer workshops.
In addition to familiarity with the tools of the EDA trade, he’s especially adept with Spring, and works with the Spring team to improve the experience for developers who want to build event-driven microservices with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Function. Learn More
Rey Riel
As the Customer Training Manager at Solace, Rey is responsible for the Solace Academy product training for clients and partners. With over a decade of experience as both a software developer and developer advocate, Rey knows exactly what it takes to educate clients, users, and developers on how to use Solace products to succeed. In addition to creating courses at Solace, Rey is also an organizer of Ottawa Javascript, Random Hacks of Kindness and the ForwardJS conference. Learn More