Summary
Andrey Bukati is a founder and CEO with over a decade of experience building infrastructure and developer-facing platforms, most recently creating Fortrest to give teams real-time control and resilience over third-party APIs. Previously as founding CTO of RapidAPI he designed and scaled the architecture that grew into the world’s largest public API marketplace serving millions of developers and thousands of companies. He combines hands-on systems engineering (from Linux/Unix ops to full-stack and mobile development) with product leadership, consistently turning technical vision into scalable, widely adopted products. Based in San Francisco, he has deep expertise in API ecosystems, observability, automation and adaptive policy enforcement for production systems. A pragmatic builder who started coding as a teenager, he brings both startup grit and operational discipline to solving the brittle dependency problem that plagues modern software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at The College of Management Academic Studies
Ort "Ronson" College
Computer Science & Physics, Computer Science & Physics at Yitzhak Rabin Comprehensive School, Ashkelon
Bachelor's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Software Engineering at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, Russian, English