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About We-Amp

We-Amp B.V. is a Dutch software and consulting company focused on HTTP infrastructure and web performance. We build web optimization software and consult on reverse proxies, caching, and networking performance.

Background

We-Amp was founded by Otto van der Schaaf, one of the original maintainers of Google's mod_pagespeed — an open-source module that automatically optimized web pages for billions of users. Otto was one of only five initial committers when the project entered the Apache Software Foundation incubator, alongside Google engineers who created mod_pagespeed. He remains an Apache committer and IPMC member.

Otto also served as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on the Envoy proxy and service mesh performance. He became the largest contributor to envoyproxy/nighthawk (the Envoy ecosystem's L7 benchmarking tool) with over 300 pull requests, and is listed as emeritus maintainer. He also contributed to Envoy core, Apache Traffic Server, and the CNCF Service Mesh Performance project.

That experience underpins everything We-Amp builds and advises on — products and consulting informed by the same deep infrastructure work.

What we do

Software

  • Develop ModPageSpeed 2.0 — automatic web optimization for any HTTP origin via nginx reverse proxy, built in C++23 with a new cache library (Cyclone)
  • Maintain the mod_pagespeed open-source codebase (version 1.1) with ports for nginx, Apache, Envoy, and IIS
  • Develop ASP.NET Core middleware — the same PageSpeed engine as a NuGet package for .NET
  • Commercial support and licensing for organizations running ModPageSpeed in production

Consulting

  • Reverse proxy architecture — Envoy, nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Traffic Server
  • HTTP performance optimization and load testing
  • Caching infrastructure design
  • Service mesh performance analysis
  • C++ systems development for networking software

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Company details

Entity
We-Amp B.V.
KvK (Chamber of Commerce)
57898138
Location
Castricum, The Netherlands
Founded
2012
Founder
Otto van der Schaaf