Bernd Ruecker is a software engineer at heart and co-founder and Chief Technologist at Camunda, an open-source process orchestration platform he started in 2008. Over more than 15 years, he has implemented large-scale automation systems in enterprise environments—including at T-Mobile, Lufthansa, ING, and Atlassian—helping teams adopt automation paradigms that fit modern, distributed architectures.

He is the author of Practical Process Automation (O'Reilly) and co-author of Enterprise Process Orchestration (Wiley) and Real-Life BPMN. He holds an MSc in software technology from HFT Stuttgart, is an active open-source contributor, and speaks regularly at conferences worldwide on orchestration, event-driven architectures, and agentic automation in distributed systems.