Marco Palladino is an inventor, software developer, and internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CTO of Mashape, which was started in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. He is currently responsible for the design and delivery of the Mashape products, while also providing the technical thought leadership around APIs and Microservices within Mashape and the external community. This includes being one of the core maintainer of Kong, the most widely adopted open-source API gateway for Microservices, that came out of Mashape. He is also the creator of the largest API marketplace in the world.