Andrei works in the CTO office at Komodor as Open Source Dev Leader with 20+ years of engineering experience spanning performance testing leadership at Blazemeter (Chief Scientist), startup co-founding, and strategic technical roles. He’s the creator of multiple successful open source projects including JMeter-Plugins (transformed into ecosystem marketplace), Taurus, Helm Dashboard, and Komoplane. As a passionate advocate for knowledge sharing, Andrei has been speaking at conferences worldwide for 15+ years, covering topics from performance testing to Kubernetes and AI. He believes deeply in building technology that helps others succeed.