Sven Walther
Principal Solutions Engineer EMEA at Kong Inc.
Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolSven Walther is a Principal Solutions Engineer EMEA with 7 years focused on API management and service connectivity, currently shaping technical sales and advanced PoCs for Kong across the EMEA region. He combines deep presales experience from vendors like CA Technologies and Akana with hands-on skills in custom plugin development, product configuration, and complex architecture consulting. A three-time Global Solutions Engineer of the Year and Presidential Club awardee, he regularly represents product vision at conferences, webinars and in technical writing. Based in Brandenburg, Germany, Sven is as comfortable leading workshops and RFP responses as he is architecting integrations for enterprise deployment pipelines. He maintains a consolidated GitHub footprint that preserves the history of his earlier repositories, signaling a long-standing habit of experimentation and code-driven problem solving. Colleagues rely on him for tackling the thornier technical scenarios that define successful enterprise rollouts.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor / German Diplom Economics, Bachelor / German Diplom Economics at The Berlin School of Economics and LawHighschool Degree, Highschool Degree at Ulrich-von-Hutten Oberschule
German, English
Github Skills (126)
api-management10
reverse-proxy10
controller10
connectivity10
consul10
gorilla10
serverless10
kong10
microservices10
cloud-native10
native-api10
k8s10
api10
ai10
golang10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
svenwal/kong-plugin-xml-json-transformer
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
A Kong plugin to automatically transform XML responses to JSON
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
to-jsonkong-plugintransformxmlkong
svenwal/uuid-generator-workspace
Oct 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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