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Daniel Meppiel

Creator of APM, Software Global Black Belt, Microsoft

Daniel works at the intersection of AI, business strategy and enterprise software engineering. 14+ years building, selling, and scaling software: distributed systems at CERN, developer tools at GitHub, secure code at Sonar, founding an AI startup as CTO (Wegaw, ESA-backed), and now AI-native adoption at Microsoft as a Software Global Black Belt. He created APM at Microsoft — an open-source Agent Package Manager used by thousands of developers including several Fortune 500 companies to distribute SDLC standards to coding agents (github.com/microsoft/apm). Daniel also designed the PROSE specification framework and authored The Agentic SDLC Handbook: 225 pages on making AI-native development work at scale.

The Latest From Daniel Meppiel

  • Managing AI Agent Primitives Like Real Software Packages with APM and JFrog
    | 13 min read

    AI agents are part of the modern development workflow. They write code, review pull requests, generate tests, call tools, interact with MCP servers, and help developers move faster. But behind every useful agent, there is something just as important as the model itself: the context that tells the agent how to behave. That context can…

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