Introductions Thread - New to the community? Start here!
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Intro
Hi all, if you've joined recently you may have seen a welcome message from me in your inbox but I figured a great way to get to know folks here would be an intro thread. As we share Solace related knowledge and learn from each other, let's get to know each other!
Name or handle
(only share what you're comfortable with of course)
In real life I'm Trish Mermuys and you can find me on twitter @mermuys and LinkedIn if you want to connect with me there.
Location
Where in the world is...
I'm in Ottawa, Canada. Right now I'm working from home but normally I'm at Solace's headquarters here in Ottawa.
Job
I'm currently the Developer Content and Community Manager here at Solace. My job is to help make this community a thriving place where you can find other people who are as passionate, interested, and curious about Solace, PubSub+, Event Portal, and really anything related to event driven architecture.
For fun
Tell us about the fun story about your experience with Solace
For me it's not directly related to Solace software or the broker, but starting a new job in the midst of a pandemic. I had worked remotely before, but it was temporary (six months) and with a team of people that I already knew quite well and had great rapport with. I started with Solace in May when everything was pretty much shut down here in Ottawa. So I didn't get to meet any of my coworkers in person until last week. We just had restaurant outdoor patios open recently so I was able to join @hong and @Tamimi for some drinks and food and finally see them in real life! It was a great moment to get to know them even better, plus the beer tasted really good!
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Intro
How'dy ya'll! 🤠 Me iiamo Tamimi, no hablo Español (Translation: My name is Tamimi, I dont speak Spanish)
Name or handle
My name is Tamimi Ahmad, and I go by Tamimi, Tam, Tams, Tim, Timmy...etc (I still get new variation of my name on a daily basis so I'm pretty used to it by now) ✌️ Follow me on The Twitter on @ TweetTamimi and get ready for cool content featuring: Solace, tech, gifs, opinions and random thoughts 🦩 I am also on the Linked of In here
Location
I'm in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦 Right now I'm working from home too and usually in normal days I also work from home or usually a cafe. I do well with public spaces, you can call me the nomad developer 🤓
Job
I am a Developer Advocate with the office of the CTO. I work hand in hand with @marc @Aaron and @TomF baking some cool developer initiatives and events. In a nut shell, i am involved with enabling developers to using our product. On normal non-pandemic days you can catch me either online partaking in virtual activities, cruising around reddit on tech forms, writing technical blogs on dev.to or traveling around giving talks at conferences, meetups and events 🎉 I am also super involved with doing POC's and projects with other technologies, tools and frameworks to see how they integrate with Solace ⚡️
Apart from Solace, I am also the Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships at a non-profit organization called Connected Canadians. We are involved with increasing digital literacy for older adults and teaching them how to use technology better. I am very passionate about our vision and what do to contribute back to the seniors community in Ottawa. You can check out our website to now more, and if you want to watch cute testimony videos of seniors talking about their experiences with technology (phones and computers)! 👵🏻👴
For fun
I am an AVID gif user 😍 catch me pulling out a gif for literally any situation . You know how they say a picture is worth a 1000 words? Well I believe that a gif is worth 1001 words! I just feel like you can explain a situation or reflect how you feel without needing to type anything, ya know?! Here is a gif for ya'll
Now what is YOUR fav gif?? I accept gif challenges.
Also, as you can probably tell by now, I like using emojies quite often as I believe they are worth 887 words 📌
Name or Handle
My name is Marc DiPasquale and you can find me on Twitter (@Mrc0113) and on LinkedIn. Feel free to connect!
Location
I'm located in Orlando, FL 🇺🇸 where I work out of my home office unless I'm traveling for exciting Developer events. I know a lot of people travel to Orlando for vacation so let me know if you're in town and want to grab a drink and meet IRL
Job
I'm a Developer Advocate at Solace where I'm always working to help enable developers and provide the best experience possible with our technology! Prior to joining Solace I worked with several large organizations as a Software Engineer implementing event-driven, real-time, systems and was actually a Solace user at a few of them
For Fun
Outside of work I spend most of my time with family/friends and I enjoy participating (okay mostly watching..) Sports 🏈 🏀 and Traveling ✈️ 🌎 when I get the opportunity to do so.
Name or Handle
I’m Hong and you can find me on LinkedIn.
Location
I’m in Ottawa, the beautiful but cold capital city of Canada.
Job
I’m the Senior Community Content Manager at Solace. As the title tells, I’m the content guy for this Community and the developer content on Solace’s blog page. So, if you have any suggested content ideas or want to write for the Community and Solace, feel free to reach out to me.
For fun
I enjoy playing ping-pong. I used to have our weekly games with my friends before the COVID-19 lockdown. I miss them a lot now.
Name or Handle
I’m Kuladeep Sadu, This is my LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuladeep-sadu-24731628/
Location
I’m working in Singapore, Lion city.
Job
Working as Middleware Engineer in Barclays and taking care of Solace and Tibco middleware infra build, upgrade and engineering stuff. Looking forward to learn and contribute from/to solace community.
For fun
I enjoy playing with kids, spending time with family and friends. Watching movies, also spending some time with books and blogs
Nice to meet you and welcome, @Kuladeep! What kind of books and blogs do you read?
Glad to meet you @hong. I usually visit tech blogs like tibcommunity and ittoolboxs, and with fiction books
@Kuladeep Cool! BTW. As @marc is asking people, where do you get your tech news?
ack'd @hong
thansk for pointing me this link got to know few more tech news
Name or Handle
Handle?? Haha awesome. Well, my name is Aaron, but I used to have handles like "Doc Zaius", "sLh", "King Influx" and others back in the BBS & PC demoscene days.
Location
Currently in Singapore! But originally from Solace HQ back in Ottawa, Canada.
Job
Yes I have one of those. Have worked at Solace over 9 years, from Professional Services to Sales Engineer to (currently) Developer Advocate.
For fun
I code. Mostly Solace utils or demos. Right now, I'm working on releasing my geo[spatial|metric] filtering library for Solace PubSub+ and MQTT. I was also getting into kitesurfing before COVID.
Name or Handle
My name is Uli. 3 kids, no pets.
Location
Karlsruhe, Germany
Job
After doing 23 years of IT operations (not dev-ops, only ops) in a large Germany-based company, I switched to Solace in 2019 - completely different work style, completely different life style :-)
For Fun
I play Trombone. And I conduct a wind orchestra. And still looking for any demo idea to integrate some music into Solace events
@uherbst Welcome and nice to meet you! We did post a blog post last year that talks about music and Solace events: https://solace.com/blog/making-event-driven-music-with-midi-solace-and-slack/. Looking forward to your demo or blog post.
Name or handle
Leah Robert ("Row-bear" - my last name is french, although it doesn't look it!). You can find me on LinkedIn here
Location
I'm in Silicon Valley, California but am originally from rural Ontario, Canada.
Job
I am a Solution Architect at Solace working in the Pacific Northwest region.
For fun
In my free time, I bake/cook and try to get outside in any way I can (roadtrips, hiking, camping)!
Intro
Hi all, I am new to the Solace community and exploring how to use it in my project work.
Name or handle
handle - @320235
Name - Praveen Kumar
I am a Senior Software Engineer in an MNC in India.
Location
I am located at Chennai, India
Job
I am working as Senior Software Engineer in an MNC in India. I have total 5 years of IT experience.
For fun
For fun, I like watching movies.
Here, in Solace Community, I am new and looking for some answers to my question and it is not yet resolved. If you can helpo, it would be great.
https://solace.community/discussion/332/send-json-object-to-solace-queue-using-python#latest
Welcome, @pr320235! Do the answers from @Tamimi and @marc answer your questions? Also, it would be great if you can share your project with the Community -- what it is about, how you developed it, etc.
Aloha,
Dev from singapore here👋
Handle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/minisha-murugan-335ab821
For fun
I like creating comics mostly around technology, painting, up for a good chat always, currently exploring DJing world🎶
Welcome, @minisha! Looking forward to your comics.
Welcome to the DJing world (and our community) @minisha! do you just do it for fun or record and play at events? I play on the Pioneer DDJ-400 and it’s a solid one! I don’t record or perform at events tho, just for fun 😄
Thanks. You can find some comics in my insta:
@Tamimi I dont play for events yet. This hobby started like a month ago. Traktor is my starting point, ll see where it goes.
Name or Handle
This Nagaraju Kshathriya (You can call me NaGG) and you can find me on LinkedIn https://in.linkedin.com/in/nagaraju-kshathriya
Location
I’m from Bangalore, the Sillicon Valley of India.
Job
I’m MuleSoft Developer at Accenture. As the title tells, Everyday I do integrations between applications ( Be it legacy or modern) thru API Led connectivity and I own my blog Vanchiv (https://vanchiv.com) - an iPaaS Learning Platform to share my knowledge and connect with world. So if you have any issues with Integration between Solace and iPaaS tools, feel free to reach out to me.
Recently I presented how to integrate Solace with MuleSoft to achieve event driven architecture.
For fun
I enjoy playing with iPaaS Platforms and Chess. Exploring life in different way to live the life fullest. Most of the time into connecting applications
Thanks for the intro @naag ! I read the articles on your blog, well written! And thanks for participating in our lightning talks
If you're into IPaaS solutions, have you checked out our Solace Connector on Boomi? I've been very interested in solutions to event enable IPaaS platforms and bring in an element of real-time development to it, you should check out our Boomi resources on community if this interests you! Just search for it in the search box here in Community.
Let's keep it simple introduction:
Name or handle:
Name: Manish Yadav
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Manish_KYadav
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manishyadav05feb1994/
Location:
Warsaw, Poland
Job
I am an Integration Architect at Billennium
For fun
in free time, listening Music and reading news
Thanks,
Manish Yadav
Welcome @manish - glad to have you here! I saw on your LI profile that you're a Mulesoft ambassador - very cool!
Hello everyone,
Myself Rajeshkumar and works as Senior Integration architect, TCS, I work on architecture, solution design and part of pre sales where I play major role to understand current AS IS enterprise architecture and redefine it , specialized in mulesoft platform. Interesting thing for me to come here is , as part of Async and EDA (event driven architecture) API's, started exploring Solace pub sub framework, looking for great learnings here...
Location : Currently Finland
Available and active on linkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshdns/ ).
Rgds
..Rajesh
Welcome @rajeshdns! Congratulations on passing the certification exam. FYI. Our website has a blog page for architects at https://solace.com/blog/category/architects/. You may find the blog posts there helpful.
Welcome to the community @rajeshdns! I'm looking forward for your contribution and stay tuned for the mulesoft activity we'll be having, and congrats on your certification!
Thanks @Tamimi , exploring EDA Apis to come up with design solutions for one of top telecom and hoping good learning experience and knowledge sharing here.. Thanks
Hi All, My name is Gaurav Dubey. I am a Senior Software Developer at Persistent Systems, Nagpur, India. I am also a MuleSoft Meetup Leader for Nagpur Location. You can connect with me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravdubeydev/. Looking forward to learn Solace and contribute and grow with the community. Thanks
Intro
Dear Solace Family,
I am new to Solace community.
Name or Handle
This is Prasanth PULIPAKALA, Senior consultant working in DBS Singapore.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasanth-pulipakala-5a211565
Location
Singapore.
Job
I am Sr. Consultant majorly worked on Middleware (Tibco, Mulesoft) , API GW. Got knowledge in kubernetes and AWS Cloud, new to Solace and would like to explore and learn from each other.
For fun
Interested with Badminton, Swimming, watching movies, learning New technologies.
Hello, my name is Heather Brown. You can find me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-brown-63a62b1/
Originally from the UK but I have lived in the Bay Area for the past 30 years.
I am the Director, Enterprise Accounts at SL; the developers of PubSub+ Monitor. I help Solace customers more effectively monitor their critical business services and the middleware they run on.
For fun I like to hike my dog, bike with my friends or go wine tasting in Napa.
@heather_brown Welcome to the community!
Welcome to Heather Brown.
Hi @heather_brown! Always great to see our partners join the community!
Welcome to the community.
Thank you. Hoping to see some customer success stories on this site.
Introduction
Hi all, I am new to the Solace community and exploring how to use it although I am not directly involved in event mesh project.
Name
Name - Anirban Bhattacharya
I am a Software Engineer working in a big retail MNC.
Location
I am located at Sweden
Job
I am a Software Engineer working in a big retail MNC. I have total 12 years of IT experience.
For fun
For fun, I like playing with my 2 kids.
Here, in Solace Community, I am new and looking for any technical discussion among members.
@anyb81 Welcome to the community!
Welcome to our community @anyb81 ! we have a bunch of discussions here, feel free to browse and contribute 🙌
Welcome to Solace Community :
Hi All, This is Siva Kumar. Mostly worked in Data warehouse backend technologies and I am working as a technical specialist from Bangalore ,India. I am new to solace .
For fun I like to play with my kids and travel with different combos(myself,friends,family) .
Welcome to our Solace Community, Siva! Super excited to see your contribution here and experience your Solace Journey. If you have mostly worked in Data warehouse backend technologies you might be interested to check out this blog about Visualizing Live Streamed Data with Python and Solace PubSub+ that talks about event-enabling data analytics. Basically talking about how you can combine streaming data in event driven architecture with ETL. This could be expanded further for data warehousing as well
Enjoy our community @sivakumar !
Excellent , It is quite intriguing . Thank you @Tamimi .
Welcome @sivakumar! Thanks for introducing yourself
@sivakumar Welcome to the community! Feel free to let the community know if you need any help and share what you have learned with the community.
Hi All ..i am supriya , i have completed training in solace i have solace consultant certification too.
I am very much interested in knowing more what solace offers and about its latest updates hence i have joined in community.
I am based in Mumbai and work as MuleSoft Architect.
Welcome @supriya! Congrats on your completion of training and the certification!
I am Shivakumar working as Solution Architect. We use Solace in the project as messaging layer. Solace is great product to work with. Though I have not worked on Solace before, I have worked on other messaging products like TIBCO RV and TIBCO EMS. Feeling great to part of this community. Solace is one of the awesome product with great performance. I am looking forward for more updates from this community
@vshivk99 Welcome to the community! Thank you for the intro and feel free to let us know what updates you want to hear.
Hey @supriya ! Welcome to the Solace Community
It's great to see a bunch of MuleSoft Ambassadors and Architects here, we have quite a collection of expertise on this. Have you checked out our codelab on how to use the MuleSoft Solace Connector? If you are interested to contribute to the codelabs with any step-by-step tutorial on how to use different MuleSoft integrations and features let me know and we can coordinate that 🙌 These codelabs are open source to anyone in the community to consume and contribute to
Welcome to all my fellow Muleys 🎉
@Tamimi sure , would like to try it.
Let me know how do i get access and how can i make a start?
Fantastic! You can check out this codelab https://codelabs.solace.dev/codelabs/codelab-4-codelab to start and it'll show you how to setup your environment to author codelabs. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions!
Hi All,
I am Karthik working as a Senior MuleSoft developer in Billennnum, completed Solace training, and certification.
Currently exploring the event-driven patterns, felt Solace fits perfectly and solves many problems in the new API world.
Hey @KarthikThotapalli welcome to the community! feel free to share your journey and what you learn about Solace here and if you have any cool mulesoft use-cases i'd be excited to check them out 🙌
Nice to see , we are growing slowly with good people. I am happy to see @rajeshdns one of the oldest MuleSoft Ambassador is with us in Solace community. So let's work together with amazing Solace community with amazing community admin.
Welcome @KarthikThotapalli . Keep rocking in Billennium with Solace .
Excellent, I could see lot of traction and importance of Event driven architecture which implies lot of people to skill up there and Solace is one of the best platform to help and gain knowledge..
Welcome @KarthikThotapalli
Hello all!
. I wanted to tell here too that the Python API is great and the developer community is friendly and pleasant. 
I am Petar Maric, a computer science masters student at Budapest University of Technology. Ran into Solace recently and I am exploring stream processing and event-driven architectures/programming. I am currently using Solace for my school project for this semester. @Tamimi helped me with something already, he is great and communicative
Welcome to the community, @Peki23!
@Peki23 , welcome to the community, good to here, share ur experience too...
@Peki23 Great welcome to awesome Community
Hi all Abdel from Chicago stumbled on Solace as I was looking to improve out trading alerts platform by using streams instead of queues as we currently do. Learning about spark, kafka and now Solace. From first glance it seems that realtime streaming for trading applications may not be a primary focus in this forum but either way I am excited to be here and learn more.
Welcome, @teledoc! Glad you found us. This community does cover real-time streaming for trading applications too. Many members here work in the financial sector. So feel free to ask them for help or even better to share your tips.
HI All,
This is Vishal here. I am Mulesoft (Integration) Senior Developer. A year back I got introduced to solace and I loved it.
Solace was perfect fit to enable event driven with Mulesoft Integrations. Kind of options solace provide to connect are amazing i.e, REST, Java, JMS, AMQP, etc. Also the concept of on the fly topic (where we dont need to create topic before using) is quite good.
I would like to learn and contribute to Solace community.
Recently I also got EDA Practitioner Certified and the journey will continue from here!!!
Welcome, @vishalch! There are many opportunities to contribute to the community.
Welcome @vishalch! We're excited to have you join us, share your knowledge, and contribute to the community. Check out this post on our Community Contributor badge to learn how you can join in. Feel free to reach out to me or @hong if you have any questions.
Hi All, I am Solomon from UK (England), looking to learn and share my experience of Solace as I am currently responsible for the platform at the company I work for.
@solcache Welcome to the community. To learn about Solace, make sure to check out the resources listed in our dev portal. Have a tip or trick? Feel free to share it with the community here.
Namaste Solace Community,
Intro
My name is Nikhil Animella,
You can find me on LinkedIn(www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-animella), Feel free to contact me.
Location:
Currently, I'm in Hyderabad, India. Right now working from home.
Job:
and how it helps Enterprise to achieve EDA. Looking forward to explore more in EDA.
I'm a Senior Mulesoft Developer at Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd.
I have been introduced to the EDA world, the Loved Solace product
Recently Completed the Solace Certification
For Fun,
In Free time I Play Badminton.