Dmytri Kleiner is Chief Experience Officer at Saleor Commerce, an open-source commerce platform used by major brands including Lush, Breitling, Discogs, and Cost Plus Drugs, handling over one billion requests per month. With more than 20 years of experience from senior positions at Red Hat, Contentful, ThoughtWorks, Automattic, and SoundCloud, he brings deep expertise in commerce architecture, developer experience, and open-source business models.

Under his leadership, Saleor became the first open-source platform to support OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling instant checkout in ChatGPT. Kleiner is a leading voice on AI commerce integration, platform gatekeeping, and merchant autonomy, advocating for keeping commerce ecosystems open, privacy-respecting, and accessible to businesses of all sizes.

As author of The Telekommunist Manifesto (2010), cited 198+ times in academic literature, Kleiner has contributed influential perspectives on digital economics, platform capitalism, and commons-based production. A sought-after speaker on behaviour-driven automation and commerce architecture, he has presented at SREDay London and the BMW Foundation World Young Leaders Forum. He provides strategic consulting through Kleiner & Weise GmbH to global corporations and startups, with clients including Sony, Ingram Micro, and SoundCloud.