Marc Savy
Founder & Principal Software Engineer at Apiman
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarc Savy is a founder and principal software engineer with 15+ years of experience building scalable, asynchronous Java systems and leading open source projects. He co-founded and is the principal maintainer of Apiman, an extensible API management platform used in production and backed by his consultancy Black Parrot Labs to provide long-term support and custom integrations. Comfortable as both architect and hands-on developer, Marc designed Apiman’s asynchronous core and a Vert.x gateway port to meet high-throughput, non-blocking I/O requirements. His background includes tech leadership at Red Hat and Greenfield event-sourced, CQRS systems using Axon and Kafka, demonstrating a strong grasp of distributed systems and eventual consistency. Marc blends practical polyglot programming (Java, Ruby, TypeScript) with formal modeling interests (Promela, VDM++), and he frequently speaks about API management at industry events. Based in Newcastle, UK, he offers deep institutional knowledge of Apiman—useful for companies that want production confidence backed by the project’s co-founder.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc First Class Honours, Computer Science, BSc First Class Honours, Computer Science at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (32)
gpo10
rate-limiting10
back-end-development10
enforcement10
policies10
java10
javas10
backend10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
apidoc9
api9
rest-api9
logging8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apiman/apiman
Jul 2014 - Jan 2023
Extensible and flexible API Management. Add your own functionality with simple Java plugins.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 432 reviews, 1468 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Marc focused on making changes to the core engine, specifically related to the handling of policy-related events within the API gateway. The commits mainly involved modifications to existing code and implementations related to rate-limiting and policy functionality in the framework. The user implemented changes to the system to allow more accurate logging and management of contracts.
api-gatewayapimavenapi-managerjvm
apiman/apiman-antora-ui
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Apiman's Antora UI (for our documentation).
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
apimanantora
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