Enno Runne
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Akka
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolEnno Runne is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience driving distributed systems and developer tooling, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Akka in Stockholm. He blends strategic executive leadership with hands-on contributions to core open-source projects—most notably Akka, Scala, Play Framework and Alpakka—where he has improved compiler docs, build systems, cluster management tools and HTTP/streaming primitives. Known for scaling engineering organisations and nurturing talent, he shapes product strategy while remaining deeply involved in build, CI/CD and DevOps improvements that increase developer velocity. His background spans both financial and enterprise integrations, from market-facing systems to resilient microservice platforms, reflecting strong expertise in Scala, Akka Streams and reactive architectures. A long-time community organiser (Scala Stockholm, Jfokus) and former guest researcher in Martin Odersky’s group, he brings academic rigor and community-mindedness to pragmatic product delivery. Less obvious: he routinely moves between executive strategy and low-level build/config fixes, ensuring leadership decisions are grounded in real developer workflows.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Computer Sience, Computer Sience at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at University of South Australia
English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (61)
streaming10
documentation10
json10
error-reporting10
grpc10
docker10
build-configuration10
cassandra10
api-design10
http10
kafka10
sbt10
data-serialization10
build-system10
akka10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
akka/alpakka
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Alpakka is a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala, based on Reactive Streams and Akka.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 398 reviews, 667 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Enno primarily worked on the Alpakka project, contributing to code related to file transfers and interacting with third-party services. Their commits focused on refactoring and adapting to changes in the Java driver and API, which implies backend work. These changes show an involvement in maintaining the project's compatibility with external dependencies and overall functionality.
akka-streamintegrationenterprise-integrationakka-streams-connectorsstreams
akka/alpakka-kafka
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Alpakka Kafka connector - Alpakka is a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala, based on Reactive Streams and Akka.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 257 reviews, 443 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Enno primarily worked on the Alpakka Kafka connector, contributing to core functionality. Their commits included changes to documentation, adjustments to handle subSources, and the implementation of Java examples. They also made improvements to the consumer, with a focus on handling partition assignment, rebalancing, and introducing a dedicated flow and committer sink with backpressure.
enterprise-integrationkafka-connectorconnectorstreamsplay-framework
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