Dimitris has 20 years of experience in IT and he is currently Director of Engineering at Red Hat in charge of the Quarkus team and the Cloud Native Runtimes group. Before that he was running the WildFly / JBoss Enterprise Application Server team for several years. 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.