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, an Apache PageSpeed (incubating) committer who helped build ngx_pagespeed, maintained mod_pagespeed, and shipped open-source PageSpeed releases throughout the Google era. Otto was one of only five initial committers when the project entered the Apache Software Foundation incubator, alongside the Google engineers who created mod_pagespeed. He release-managed 1.14.36.1, the project's only Apache release, and has been an Apache Traffic Server PMC member since 2012.

Otto also served as a Principal Engineer at Red Hat on the OpenShift Service Mesh (Maistra) team, working on the Envoy proxy and service mesh performance, then as a Principal Engineer at Aviatrix, and later as a GTM Architect at Red Hat. 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 mod_pagespeed 2.1 — server-side web optimization: a native module for Apache, nginx and IIS, plus the optimizer worker. Open source under the Apache License 2.0
• Develop ASP.NET Core middleware — the same PageSpeed Automatic library as a NuGet package for .NET
• Commercial support subscriptions and hardened attested builds for organizations running mod_pagespeed 2.1 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

More about our consulting services →

Our open-source work is the same domain expertise the consulting and product work draws on.

Company details

Entity

We-Amp B.V.

KvK (Chamber of Commerce)

57898138

Location

Castricum, The Netherlands

Founded

2012

Founder

Otto van der Schaaf