Soby Chacko

Soby Chacko is a core committer to Spring AI and the technical lead for Spring for Apache Kafka, as part of the Spring engineering team at Broadcom. He also contributes to related open source efforts within Spring engineering, particularly where AI and messaging intersect. He is passionate about addressing the complexities of event-driven and distributed systems, and he is committed to helping Java developers bring AI capabilities into those systems through familiar Spring programming models. In his current role, Soby is responsible for building new feature capabilities in Spring AI and Spring for Apache Kafka, as well as fostering the open source communities behind these projects. Before joining the Spring engineering team, formerly at Pivotal and VMware, Soby worked extensively on building enterprise-grade software systems using Spring and other JVM technologies across a variety of industries.