About GraphPilot
GraphPilot takes load off your origin and brings GraphQL responses closer to your users. It caches them at the edge, reads your schema to know what each one contains, and purges the responses a change affects.
Why GraphPilot exists
In GraphQL project after project, the same question came back: how do we cache this? The existing answers never quite satisfied us. A classic CDN caches by URL, while a GraphQL API answers many different queries on one endpoint, often over POST. Purging the right data by hand works for a while, then it stops scaling with the schema and the number of teams.
The need was clearest with federated teams. Each team owns part of the graph, and each one had to solve caching again on its own. They deserved better support, and a better developer experience than the tools available: caching that follows the schema they already maintain, instead of hand-written rules in every client.
So we built the cache we kept wishing for: it reads your schema, caches at the edge, and when a mutation changes data, it purges the responses that contain it. And GraphPilot is a long-held dream come true for its founder: a product of our own, built end to end.
The founder
Kay Schecker
Founder, GraphPilot
Kay is a tech lead and software architect who has spent more than ten years building web platforms and APIs for large companies in media, automotive and the public sector. On a major video streaming platform, Kay worked in the team behind its GraphQL orchestration layer: one API in front of many backend services, and the central contact for the federated teams building on it. The work there covered performance monitoring and API latency, including caching and query batching.
As tech lead, Kay has led development teams with responsibility for architecture and quality, for example on an event-driven fulfillment platform for a carmaker's e-mobility business, with GDPR-compliant data protection built in from the start. Kay has also coached developers at large organizations in modern frontend and API practices.
In open source, Kay built the npm package for OpenAPI Generator, which had almost two million weekly downloads as of November 2026.1 GraphPilot has been in development since early 2025 and live since November 2026.
1. Weekly downloads of @openapitools/openapi-generator-cli on npm, November 2026.
The company
GraphPilot is built and run by GraphPilot UG (haftungsbeschränkt), based in Düsseldorf, Germany, and registered at the Amtsgericht Düsseldorf under HRB 113785. Made in Germany.
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