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# Erica Weistrand
Developer Lead at CloudAMQP building message broker infrastructure and event-driven systems.

## About

Erica Weistrand builds and operates message broker infrastructure as a Developer Lead at CloudAMQP. She focuses on helping teams adopt messaging patterns and get comfortable with tools like LavinMQ and RabbitMQ.

Her work centers on moving systems away from tightly coupled HTTP calls and toward event-driven architectures. She teaches the fundamentals of AMQP, guiding engineers through everything from basic queue implementations to complex routing patterns and service decoupling.



## Past Sessions

### World Congress 2026 Europe · July 8, 2026
Berlin, Germany
- [Hands-on AMQP with LavinMQ: Decoupling Services with Message Queues](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/996-hands-on-amqp-with) · 120 min