Dimitris is an open source veteran with 25+ years of experience in IT and he is currently a (Red Hat) Sr.Director of Engineering at IBM in charge of the Cloud Native Runtimes group that includes Quarkus, Vert.x, SpringBoot and Node.js. He also served as the JBoss AS project lead and he has been a JBoss addict and contributor from the early start-up days. He worked previously at Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. Dimitris studied computer science at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland.