Stefan Kruger

Founder — Stefan Kruger is the co founder and CTO of heylua.ai, a chat-first AI platform helping businesses become AI native in a couple of clicks. Before starting Lua, he was VP of Engineering at Paystack (acquired by Stripe), where he spent nearly a decade scaling fintech infrastructure across the continent. A builder at heart, Stefan has deep experience in resilient systems, orchestration, and developer tooling, and is passionate about making AI accessible in the everyday platform