Zineb Bendhiba is a Principal Software Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building cloud-native integration solutions and developer-first tooling. She drives core contributions to Apache Camel and Camel Quarkus—authoring components like ArangoDB support, improving native-image compatibility, and refactoring deprecated APIs—while serving as an Apache Camel PMC and committer. Comfortable across backend, integration and cloud stacks, she has a track record of lifting legacy code and enabling native compilation for complex integrations. Transitioning from Red Hat to IBM, she’s now focused on applying AI to the Camel ecosystem, blending practical engineering with open-source stewardship. An early-career foundation in telecom and banking R&D gives her pragmatic expertise in resilient, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Faculté des Sciences Semlalia Marrakech
Contributions:10 releases, 524 reviews, 161 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zineb contributed a new ArangoDB component extension to the Apache Camel Quarkus project, creating integration tests to validate its functionality. They also added support for native compilation to Weather and Geocoder components, addressing native support fixes. Additionally, they made changes to the PostgresSQL Event, and the Lumberjack components. These changes demonstrate the user's focus on enhancing the project's capabilities through the integration of external services and improving native image compatibility.
Apache Camel is an open source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:29 reviews, 46 commits, 71 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zineb's commits focused on removing deprecated code related to retrieving output messages within the camel-mail component. This involved modifications to test files and related code, indicating work to refactor existing functionalities. The changes primarily addressed deprecation warnings by updating and removing usages of outdated APIs, demonstrating a focus on code maintenance and improving the overall quality of the Apache Camel integration framework.
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