Company: Developers

Holger Hoffstatte


Currently Resides: Bochum, Germany

Integration Experience: Holger has a diverse background in enterprise IT, with more than 10 years of experience spread across numerous disciplines -- from full-text information retrieval and visualization, to web development, to e-commerce / B2B backend integration. As an IT consulCompanyt, Holger has worked with Java / J2EE production environments at clients like Deutsche Telekom, and has done trainings for HP, EADS and the German Ministry of Finance. Holger is also a long-time contributor to Open Source projects, such as Cayenne ORM. He initially discovered Mule while searching for an event aggregation and middleware platform to handle the integration rigors of a complex authoring and typesetting solution. He has been a core contributor ever since.

Favorite thing about Mule: "It is truly the 'Swiss Army Knife' of inter-application event handling. It's small, adaptable and extensible ... not some super-sized, monolithic server that is bound to become another problem."

Travis Carlson


Currently Resides: La Plata, Argentina

Integration Experience: Travis has more than 10 years of experience in software design and development, with concentrated expertise in Java / J2EE application integration and workflow in the telecommunications industry. Travis fell in love with the Open Source software development paradigm a few years ago and never looked back. He discovered Mule when his employer (a major network backbone provider in Latin America) sought a more flexible solution to replace its proprietary EAI software.

Favorite thing about Mule: "Mule is powerful, but at the same time simple to configure, flexible and non-intrusive. It gets the job done without getting in your way."

Andrew Cooke


Currently Resides: Chile

Favorite thing about Mule: "I work on the core (whatever that means) and think that the most interesting and underused aspect of Mule is allowing Java programs to be transparently distributed via Spring configuration - that you can write a single program and then split it across several machines."


Dirk Olmes


Currently Resides: Kamen, Germany

Integration Experience: Dirk has over 10 years of experience in the IT mainly on large projects. During his work as consultant he helped to build Java/J2EE systems for a wide range of industries from tourism/aviation, insurance to telecommunications with all kinds of integration work: connections to computer reservation systems, the usual web services madness and a bit of CORBA.

Favorite thing about Mule: "Mule is a very modular system that comes with a very small footprint and yet is very powerful."

Lajos Moczar


Currently Resides: USA

Integration Experience: Lajos is an enterprise integration expert who has worked in IT since 1989, holding a range of positions -- from database administrator to senior architect to CIO. Lajos has worked with Mule since early 2005, when he was responsible for implementing Mule at Starz Encore as part of their Vongo (www.vongo.com) project. In this implementation, Mule handled over 650,000 transactions per day from a network of internal and external data points. Lajos has been an active contributor in the Open Source movement for the last eight years and has authored numerous published works on J2EE and Open Source technologies.

Favorite thing about Mule: "Mule takes an elegant and undersCompanydable approach to SOA and provides the best possible flexibility for integrating various data sources and protocols."

Andrew Perepelytsya


Currently Resides: White Plains, New York (USA)

Integration Experience: Andrew initially began working with Java and J2EE integration technologies while completing his M.Sc. in e-Commerce at the University of Bradford, UK. He has since worked on large-scale enterprise integration projects for a wide range of industries, including stock trading, pharmaceutical, data mining, multi-national food wholesaling, and even a government nuclear project. Andrew first discovered Mule when his company was integrating tens of thousands of branch locations with a centralized trading server, and needed a solution that scaled better than the existing integration platform.

Favorite thing about Mule: "Mule-based systems can be as simple or complex as YOU want them to be, not THEM."

Quoc Le


Currently Resides: San Francisco, CA

Integration Experience: Quoc has over 7 years of experience developing Java/J2EE applications for enterprise customers in industries such as banking, telecom, and energy. Quoc spent several years at BEA Systems where he worked in both IT and Professional Services, helping his customers solve challenging integration and web problems using Java/J2EE on WebLogic.

Favorite thing about Mule: "The name. It's the perfect name for this unassuming workhorse of the integration world."

Ross Mason


Currently Resides: Malta & London

Integration Experience: Ross founded the open source Mule project in 2003 after several years of painful "donkey work" in a host of London investment banks. He has worked all over the world on integration projects, including: London, Switzerland, Australia, Malta, Vancouver and the US.

Favorite thing about Mule: "The community."