Our History
- June 1, 2016 LunchBadger is born
Al Tsang, former CTO of StrongLoop, creates LunchBadger.
- July 13,2017 LunchBadger raises $1.5M from Pelion Ventures
LunchBadger raises 1.5M investment to reduce complexity working with APIs.
Read more - July 19th,2017 Shubhra Kar and Dimitri Sirota become advisors for LunchBadger
LunchBadger welcomes Shubhra Kar, Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at Joyent, and Dimitri Sirota, Chief Executive Officer of BigID as key advisors to help guide the future of LunchBadger.
Read more - July 25, 2017 LunchBadger becomes the next Heavybit member
Heavybit, an accelerator focused on developer tools, admits LunchBadger.
Read more - July 27, 2017 Express Gateway makes a huge splash
LunchBadger launches Express Gateway, an open source API Gateway built entirely on Express.js.
Press Release - July 28, 2017 LunchBadger’s open source project Express Gateway featured in Infoworld
LunchBadger’s Express Gateway is an ‘out of the box’ API gateway for microservices built on the Express framework for Node.js.
Read more - November 9th, 2017 Lunchbadger goes serverless
New to the LunchBadger platform, serverless capabilities and multi-cloud features are a go!
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- December 19th, 2017 LunchBadger announces partnership with Joyent
Joyent, an industry heavyweight, teams up with the LunchBadger crew to create a new partnership offering.
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Press Release
Article featured in Container Journal - December 28th, 2017 LunchBadger partnership with Joyent gets featured on SDXCentral
Dan Miller, journalist, feature LunchBadger’s new partnership in SDX Centeral.
Read more - January 21st, 2018 Express Gateway reaches over 10k downloads
Express Gateway, an open source API Gateway built entirely on Express.js., reaches over 10k downloads in record time. - February 10, 2018 LunchBadger gets a nice little mention in TechCrunch
LunchBadger is just one more way to say “Let’s Go” to APIs and Microservice development.
Read more - March 6th, 2018, New LunchBadger serverless capabilities get noticed by the New Stack
Susan Hall, reporter with the New Stack, features the latest LunchBadger serverless development.
Read more - March 22nd, 2018, LunchBadger kicked off a brand new Developer Spotlight Series
Each week, a new perspective, how to or other essential code snippet laden money-shot into the blog.
Read more - April 1st, 2018, LunchBadger launches commercial support for Express Gateway
By popular request, Lunchbadger launches a new commercial support offering for Express Gateway, an open source API Gateway built on Express.js - July 8th, 2019, Express Serverless Platform goes open source!
Following the successful footsteps of Express Gateway, Express Serverless Platform is now an open source project with its own brand new standalone site.
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Our Team
Clyde Hinshelwood
Clyde Hinshelwood, Head of Sales at LunchBadger, has an extensive background in enterprise B2B sales and sales management. Clyde helped grow sales at Webify Solutions which resulted in IBM acquiring Webify Solutions. At IBM, Clyde held many positions in North America and Europe leading sales organizations. Twitter: @ClydeHinshelwoo Recent Blog Posts
Jack Dowling
Jack Dowling is a Sales Development Representative at LunchBadger. After graduating from St. Mary's college, Jack was a standout SDR at a different hypergrowth startup. He is responsible for seeking out new businesses and finding good client product fit. LinkedIn: jack-dowlingsmc Recent Blog Posts
Kristof Olbinski
Kristof, Senior Software Developer at LunchBadger, holds a Masters of Science degree from the University of Technology in Lodz. Prior to joining the team, Kristof worked on global brands like Orange, T-Mobile, Wirtualna Polska or CheapTickets.nl. Recent Blog Posts
Serhii Kuts
Serhii is a talented Engineer with decades of experience in software development. Prior to joining up, Serhii developed core pieces of technology for enterprises and startups. Recent Blog Posts
Shashikanth Ramakrishnan
Shashikanth Ramakrishnan, Sr. Marketing Mgr at LunchBadger, has 8 years of core experience in strategising and executing digital marketing campaigns. Shashi also brings with him an overall 10 years of senior management experience working in startups, small-medium businesses and MNC's across various regions. LinkedIn: shashikanth-ramakrishnan Recent Blog PostsOur Advisors
Dimitri Sirota
Dimitri Sirota, Chief Executive Officer of BigID and the former co-founder of Layer 7 (acquired by CA Technologies), serves as an advisor to LunchBadger. Twitter: @dimitrisirot LinkedIn: dimitrisirota Recent Blog Posts
Jimmy Guerrero
Jimmy, current VP of Marketing at SignifAI, brings to market startups in the open source, cloud, API, IoT, AI and machine learning spaces. As an advisor, Jimmy is core to our success and provides critical insight, perspective and tactical resources. Twitter: @paasdude LinkedIn: jiguerrero Recent Blog Posts
Shubhra Kar
Shubhra Kar, Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at Joyent, currently serves as a Board Advisor to LunchBadger. Shubhra is also the Chair of the Marketing Committee of the Node.js Foundation. Twitter: @ShubhraKar LinkedIn: shubhrakar Recent Blog PostsOur Investors
Why we invested in LunchBadger with Pelion Venture Partners
LunchBadger’s platform is a huge step forward with better visibility and management of an API for better business functionality and value. LunchBadger offers in one platform both the technical features and simplicity to bring together all of the stakeholders.
Chad Packard
Partner, Pelion Ventures