Camunda Champion Program
Camunda Champions are loyal, helpful and collaborative community members who actively support the Camunda Community by answering questions, speaking at events, publishing content or contributing to online communities. With this program we want to give you credit for the work you’re doing and set you up for success.
Who is a Camunda Champion?
Our awesome community is what makes us who we are and we value each and every member. There are some community members who always go above and beyond and love to share their knowledge and expertise to help others within the community. Contributions from Champions might include speaking at events, leading user groups, answering questions or contributing to online communities.
Do you:
- Love to support others?
- Actively contribute to the Camunda Community?
- Demonstrate Camunda product expertise?
- Are you passionate about Camunda?
Why become a Camunda Champion?
With this program, we want to value your contributions to the community, set you up for success and create a global network of Camunda Champions. Some of the benefits you can expect as a Champion:
- The recognition of the community
- Access to Camunda Experts and fellow Champions
- Exclusive Camunda Badges
- First-hand information about updates from the Camunda Universe
- Access to Camunda Academy
- Invitation to exclusive Champion Summit
- Special Swag
Get to know our Champions
Alexey Vinogradov
Alexey Vinogradov
Dominik Horn
Location: Germany
Company: Flowsquad
Bio:
Dominik Horn is co-founder of FlowSquad, specialists in process automation.
As a full-stack developer, he loves to build software from scratch and always has the goal to accelerate the development and simplify the automation. He is a lecturer for process management and automation at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and enjoys passing on his knowledge and exploring innovative topics.
Specialties: Meetups Speaking Coding Writing Forum
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Dominik Horn
Florian Runschke
Location: Germany
Company: viadee
Bio:
Florian Runschke is an IT architect and process engineer at viadee AG. He helps to develop process automation platforms and knows the pitfalls of implementing process applications. As an open source enthusiast, he always aims for lean solutions to overcome everyday challenges.
Specialties: Meetups Speaking Coding Writing Camunda 7 Bpmn.io
Florian Runschke
Gunnar von der Beck
Location: Germany
Company: Accso – Accelerated Solutions GmbH
Bio:
Gunnar is an IT Architect at Accso in Darmstadt, Germany. As BPM und open-source enthusiast he is the author of several community projects. He has more or less grown up with Camunda and has been involved in the area of practical process automation for several years now. And it’s still great fun for him.
In addition to his day-to-day work, Gunnar also guides the next generation of BPM experts through their internship on the Business Process Engineering lecture at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences – of course, using Camunda.
Specialties: Camunda 7 Camunda 8 Speaking Writing Coding Forum Meetups
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
It is a great joy to be part of such a passionate community. The feedback and active participation of everyone else is an essential ingredient to my own open source projects, which otherwise wouldn’t be half as good. Thanks to all of you!
Gunnar von der Beck
Jan Galinski
Location: Germany
Company: Holisticon
Bio:
Jan Galinski is a BPM craftsman, software engineer, and senior consultant for Holisticon AG, living and working in Hamburg, Germany. His interests range from architecture, development to business process management. Jan is also a big fan of open source software and regularly contributes on GitHub and Stack Overflow.
Specialties: Meetups Speaking Coding Forum Camunda 7 Bpmn.io
Jan Galinski
Jan Rohwer
Jan Rohwer
Juan Carlos Beltrán Rebaza
Location: Peru
Company: Prisma Intelligence Consulting
Bio:
Juan Carlos works as a consultant in BPM with Business Intelligence. His specialty is designing executable models based on BPMN and DMN. He also builds indicators and dashboards for business management with process analytics.
He is a self-taught individual who enjoys sharing knowledge and experiences of learned technologies with various foundations, design patterns and scalable architectures.
Specialties: Meetups Writing Camunda 7
Juan Carlos Beltrán Rebaza
Luc Weinbrecht
Country: Germany
Company: Envite
Bio:
Luc Weinbrecht is a Consultant at Envite working with Camunda Tools on a daily basis. As a full stack developer, he passionately helps companies digitize, particularly with workflow automation. Additionally, he is enthusiastic about applying modern software architecture on Camunda and creating new possibilities and solutions for business monitoring.
Specialties: Camunda 7 Camunda 8 Speaking Writing Meetups
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
Being a Camunda Champion means to me being part of a super cool community where you can learn a lot and which gives back the appreciation you invest — encouraging to continue.
Luc Weinbrecht
Markus Stahl
Location: Germany
Company: imbus
Bio:
Markus studied in Sweden, worked in Argentina and travelled the world before forging his path. Overtime, he has developed a strong passion for open source and software automation. Markus is also an active member of the Robot Framework community.
Specialties: Speaking Coding Writing Camunda 7
Markus Stahl
Max Young
Country: USA
Company: CapBPM
Bio:
Max Young is a Certified Camunda Engineer who has worked with Camunda for almost 10 years, and has delivered over 20 enterprise-level projects. He has a Masters degrees in Mathematics and AI, and enjoys chess. Max lives in Greenville, SC, with with his two boys and extremely patient wife.
Specialties: Camunda 7 Camunda 8 Coding Speaking Meetups Writing Videos
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
Being able to see, solve, and learn more about practical problems!
Max Young
Pascal Mengelt
Location: Switzerland
Company: Finnova
Bio:
Pascal Mengelt is a Software Engineer with nearly two decades’ experience. He works for finnova AG Bankware in Seewen SZ, Switzerland, helping customers digitize their processes on finnova’s Open Platform. Since 2018, Pascal has worked with Camunda, developing a framework around Camunda and now applying it to customer projects. In his spare time, next to family, biking, winging and snowboarding, he explores technologies that interest him, such as projects around Camunda and Scala (DMN Tester / Camundala.)
Specialties: Speaking Writing Coding Forum Camunda 7
Pascal Mengelt
Patrick Wunderlich
Location: Germany
Company: Holisticon AG
Bio:
Patrick Wunderlich is a senior consultant at Holisticon AG in Hamburg, Germany.
As a full-stack developer, architect and BPM craftsman he is involved into planning and implementation of enterprise projects. He is interested in business process automation, domain driven design and event driven microservices. Whenever it’s possible, he prefers to use kotlin.
He is also Chapter Lead of the Camunda Chapter Hamburg.
If he is not hosting meetups or coding, he will probably be off climbing or hiking.
Specialties: Camunda 7 Camunda 8 Speaking Writing Meetups Coding
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
It is awesome and I’m very proud and honored. 🙂
Patrick Wunderlich
Philipp Hehnle
Location: Germany
Company: envite consulting GmbH
Bio:
Philipp is Green BPM Consultant at envite. He is passionate about supporting his customers digitizing their business processes using Camunda. He focuses on the environmental impacts of the workflows and how to reduce them. Furthermore, he works on the challenge to digitize efficiently and reuse similar business processes. He is co-organizer of the Camunda Chapter in Munich and enjoys giving talks about Camunda process digitization, the environmental impact of digitized business processes and opportunities for reusing software components among similar workflows.
Specialties: Camunda 7 Camunda 8Coding Speaking Meetups WritingForum
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
I am thrilled to be part of such an amazing community in which knowledge is shared in so many ways via the forum, meetups and conferences. Besides the professional exchange, the personal exchange is remarkable.
Philipp Hehnle
Raimundo Santos
Location: Brazil
Company: Instituto Brasileiro de BPM
Bio:
Raimundo Júnior is a Camunda architect. He has worked with BPM and Java Implementations for the past 15 years, and has worked exclusively with Camunda for the past four years.
Together with NTConsult, he has helped clients in Brazil, Canada, and the United States to orchestrate and integrate their processes and services with Camunda.
Raimundo is also the author of BPM Fácil – Uma Metodologia Simples de Gestão de Processos. He has worked as a business process management and automation consultant for over 10 years.
He has three overwhelming passions: Family, BPM, and soccer!
Specialties: Camunda 7 Camunda 8 Speaking Writing
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
It is a great honor to be recognized as a Camunda Champion. I am passionate about BPM and when I met Camunda, it was a huge positive change in my life. Being apart of this group is something that means a lot to me.
Raimundo Santos
Simon Zambrovski
Location: Germany
Company: Holisticon
Bio:
Simon Zambrovski works as a senior consultant for Holisticon AG in Hamburg, Germany. As a BPM craftsman, full-stack developer, coach and trainer, he participates in IT projects as a business analyst and architect of enterprise systems. He is currently interested in business process automation, event-driven microservice landscapes, and domain-driven design. On behalf of the customers he develops systems using Java or Kotlin and participates in multiple open source projects.
Specialties: Meetups Speaking Coding Writing Forum
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Simon Zambrovski
Stefan Schultz
Location: Germany
Company: Consid
Bio:
Stefan is a consultant at Consid. He has more than 10 years of experience in consulting and agile software development, a huge fable for process automation and quality in software, and a passion for people and technology. He works and lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Specialties: Camunda 7 Camunda 8 Forum Coding
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
How many Camunda Champions does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but they’ll make sure to share their experience with the community and inspire others to follow!
Stefan Schultz
Tales Paiva
Location: Brazil
Company: OWSE / UFRJ
Bio:
Tales is a Process Analyst at KIP4You and a contributor at AgileKIP, an open source project devoted to facilitate process/workflow automation initiatives using code generation techniques.
With an academic background in Electronics and a BSc in Management Engineering, he is currently a MSc candidate at COPPE/UFRJ, studying the relationship between the process maturity and the digital readiness of organizations deploying Digital Transformation initiatives. Tales loves to learn, to meet new people, and to connect with nature.
Specialties: Speaking CodingCamunda 7
It is a unique opportunity to disseminate to new members of the community all the knowledge received over these years.
Tales Paiva
Thomas Heinrichs
Location: Germany
Company: Miragon GmbH
Bio:
Thomas is passionate about topics relating to process automation. For him it’s not just about pure automation, but also about modeling and optimizing processes. Being confronted with new problems in this area and developing individual solutions motivates him in his daily work. He previously worked at Camunda and am now continues the journey as a member of the wonderful community. He’s looking forward to many more contributions and discussions with Camunda and fellow community members. Besides process automation,Thomas loves spending free time in the German alps.
Specialties: Camunda 7 Camunda 8 Forum Meetups Speaking Coding
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
I feel very honored to be selected as a Camunda Champion. The Camunda Community is a very special place to me where I feel very very welcomed. I am very much looking forward to future contributions. This can also include mentoring other community members which are new to the world of process automation. Thank you!
Thomas Heinrichs
Tiese Barrell
Location: Netherlands
Company: GROUP9
Bio:
Tiese Barrell enjoys analyzing, designing and implementing solutions for business processes in complex environments, and is experienced in designing and implementing the systems integration these solutions require. He specializes in open source Java (BPM) frameworks such as Camunda.
Tiese’s work and interests span from the functional domain through architecture to the implementation of process automation projects. He often acts as the linchpin between business and IT to produce valuable solutions.
Specialties: Speaking Coding Writing Forum Camunda 7 Bpmn.io
Tiese Barrell
Tobias Schäfer
Location: Germany
Company: envite consulting GmbH
Bio:
Tobias Schäfer is a Practice Lead for Green BPM at envite consulting GmbH in Germany with more than 20 years of experience in software engineering.
He has a passion for Business Process Management and related topics and loves to drive technical innovation. His areas of focus include Java, Cloud Native, and of course Camunda. He is co-organizer of the Camunda User Groups in Stuttgart and Nuremberg, a speaker at meetups, and leads the open source projects that enable the integration between the Micronaut framework and Camunda’s workflow engine.
Specialties: Meetups Speaking Coding Writing Forum
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Tobias Schäfer
Victor Franca
Location: Ireland
Company: WKS Power
Bio:
Victor is a seasoned BPM automation professional who uses his technical and managerial skills to improve mission-critical processes in Financial Services, Insurance, Public, and Retail sectors. He runs WKS Power (www.wkspower.com), an Irish Camunda Partner company providing training and consultancy in Ireland, the UK, US, Portugal, and Brazil
Specialties: Speaking Coding Camunda 7 Writing Forum
Giving back to an awesome community
Victor Franca
William Robert da Veiga Alves
Location: Brazil
Company: Nooma Digital (Outsourcing Quanta Previdencia), AJX Capital.
Bio:
William is a professional with experience in software development and process analysis, specializing in creating robust and effective solutions, primarily within the financial sector. His expertise spans various cutting-edge technologies, including Camunda 7, BPMN 2.0, Java, Javascript, Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Spring MVC), AWS, GCP, Hibernate, Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Microservices architecture.
William is passionate about using Camunda to streamline and simplify business processes, assisting organizations in achieving greater efficiency and success.
Specialties: Camunda 7 Forum Videos
What does being a Camunda Champion mean to you?
Being a Camunda Champion is a blend of professionalism, community dedication, and enthusiasm for technology.
William Robert da Veiga Alves
Zhi Li
Location: China
Company: Xinhua Zhiyun Technology Co., Ltd
Bio:
Zhi is an open source enthusiast, with passions for Java, Spring Boot, process automation, and microservices.
Specialties: Camunda 8 Coding
The affirmation of the preliminary work is also the encouragement of the follow-up work.
Zhi Li
FAQ
There’s not one size fits all – Each community member has different strengths and is active in certain areas. To join the program, you must be a passionate Camunda user, demonstrate product expertise, support other community members and contribute to the overall community. Typical contributions might include the following:
- Camunda 8 Expert: Demonstrate deep expertise in Camunda 8.
- Code Contributor: Enhance our projects with your coding skills.
- Tutorial Creator: Share your knowledge through engaging YouTube videos.
- Marketplace Innovator: Develop, share, and maintain connectors and blueprints.
- Blog Writer: Inspire and inform others with your insightful blog posts, both internally and externally.
- Event Speaker: Talk about your work and share your expertise with others.
- Camunda Meet-up Organizer: Bring people together by organizing local meet-ups.
- Knowledge Sharer: Foster a learning culture within your company by leading regular knowledge-sharing sessions, also known as a community of practice.
- Supportive Mentor: Support others in the community through our Forum.
- Passionate Advocate
If you’re unsure whether you should apply or not, just give it a try and fill out the application form. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
The Champion program lasts for one year. The next cohort will begin in November 2024 and you can apply between August 12 and September 30, 2024.
The Camunda Champion Program team selects the top contributors and welcomes them into the program. If you get accepted, you will be notified via email.
Champions receive the title for one year, during which they can enjoy the benefits that are associated with the program. Existing Champions are eligible to renew their status for the following year, as long as they can demonstrate that they have made significant contributions to the community over the past 12 months. Being named Camunda Champion one year does not automatically guarantee that someone will remain in the program the following years. We reserve the right to remove a Champion before the 12-month term ends, e.g. when a person violates our Code of Conduct.
Once you fill out the application form, you’ll receive an email with further information regarding next steps. If you got accepted for the program, you will be notified via email.
If you have any questions around the program, feel free to reach out to us via [email protected].