Hassy Veldstra

Hassy Veldstra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Artillery.io, an infrastructure and developer tooling company based in London, United Kingdom. Prior to founding his own technology startup, he built his technical foundation working as a Site Reliability Engineer and open-source software developer specializing in backend performance and distributed systems. Veldstra is widely recognized as the original creator of the Artillery open-source load testing and performance validation toolkit, which is heavily reliant on the Node.js runtime environment. Under his direct leadership, this core open-source project has successfully accumulated more than 6,000 stars on GitHub and achieved millions of global downloads across various enterprise engineering teams. His current professional focus centers on scaling the Artillery commercial cloud platform to help software development teams maintain highly reliable infrastructure systems while significantly reducing their daily operational burdens.