Vu Lam is the founder and CEO of Katalon, one of the world's most widely used software test automation platforms, trusted by more than 30,000 teams. A Vietnamese-American engineer who arrived in the United States as an 11-year-old refugee, he built a career at Bell Labs before founding a string of technology companies including KMS Technology, QASymphony, Kobiton and Grove HR. Katalon began as an internal productivity tool inside KMS Technology and grew into a standalone company that raised $27 million in Series A funding in 2021. Lam is known for championing quality-assurance professionals and pushing testing into the AI era.
Katalon is an Atlanta-based software company that builds an AI-augmented, all-in-one quality management platform for software testing. Its flagship products - Katalon Studio, TestOps, TestCloud, and the newer TrueTest - let QA and DevOps teams create, run, and analyze automated tests across web, mobile, API, and desktop applications with both low-code and full-code approaches. Spun out of KMS Technology, Katalon is used by more than 30,000 teams across 80+ countries and has repeatedly been named a G2 Leader in software testing.