Ingo Renner is a senior engineer, software architect, and a member of the PMC at Apache Tika, as well as a TYPO3 core developer and release manager. He has also spoken at various tech conferences, including ApacheCon and T3CON. In terms of education, he holds a master's degree in computer science from both the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt.

Renner has worked for various companies in the software industry, including VSCO, August Home, dkd Internet Service, and Infield Design. He also owns his own website, ingo-renner.com. He has expertise in search engineering, software architecture, open-source projects, and internet services.