Mathieu Ancelin
CTO, Co-Founder at Cloud APIM
Poitiers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolMathieu Ancelin is a CTO and co-founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating API management platforms, best known as the creator and principal maintainer of Otoroshi, an open-source HTTP reverse proxy focused on API governance and authentication. Based in Poitiers, he leads Cloud APIM, delivering run, training and support services while developing vertical solutions and extensions—most recently an LLM extension that adds guardrails, observability and cost optimization for safe enterprise use. He also co-created Clever AI with Clever Cloud to simplify LLM integration for Otoroshi and contributes to projects around decentralized authorization (Eclipse Biscuit) and server-side WASM execution. Long active in standards work (CDI, MVC, OSGi) and as a developer at SERLI, Mathieu blends protocol-level expertise with product leadership and a strong commitment to practical open-source collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
DUT Informatique, Computer Science, DUT Informatique, Computer Science at IUT de La RochelleMaster ICONE, Computer Science, Master ICONE, Computer Science at Université de La RochelleLicence, Computer Science, Licence, Computer Science at La Rochelle Université
English, French
Github Skills (36)
api-management10
reverse-proxy10
http10
proxy10
akka10
akka-http10
http-proxy10
scala10
akka-streams10
microservices10
playframework10
react5
authorization3
wasmer3
java3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mathieuancelinserli/wines-api-cloud-apim-serverless
Jun 2024 - Oct 2025
Contributions:32 pushes in 1 year 4 months
mathieuancelinserli/serverless-project-template
Jun 2024 - Jun 2025
Contributions:41 pushes in 1 year
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