Wanny Morellato
Vice President Of Engineering at Kong Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWanny Morellato is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems and developer platforms. Currently VP of Engineering at Kong, he led the creation of Kong Konnect Cloud and previously ran global platform organizations at SAP Concur overseeing identity, pub/sub, data lake, API gateway and notification systems for 100+ engineers. He combines hands-on expertise as a developer and architect with strong people management—coaching engineers into leaders while driving agile transformation, SRE practices, and secure, scalable architectures. Deeply experienced in event-driven microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka and API gateways (Kong), he excels at re-architecting monoliths to resilient cloud-native platforms. Notably, his career spans both mobile and embedded roots through early roles at Airbus and mobile startups, giving him a practical appreciation for end-to-end product delivery. Based in Seattle, he focuses on creating high-impact teams and engineering cultures that sustain rapid innovation at scale.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di PadovaMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico
Italian
Github Skills (149)
api-management10
kuma10
reverse-proxy10
swagger10
connectivity10
consul10
vms10
serverless10
rest-api10
microservices10
kong10
cloud-native10
native-api10
mesh10
api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mrwanny/kong
May 2023 - Jun 2023
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
mrwanny/kafka-manager
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 27 days
kafkaapache-kafkaapache
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