Bio

Software engineer and architect with 22 years of programming and 11 years of expertise in distributed systems, event-driven programming, message broker architecture, and backend development. Tech lead for server development of open source software, NATS, which is a highly scalable pub/sub messaging product for multi-tenant, cross-cloud and edge/IOT use cases. Owned security-relevant code as well as technical relationships with customers which ranged from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. Lead developer of the TIBCO FTL message broker, and solely responsible for developing every major functionality of this multi-threaded, highly available, fully consistent and distributed consensus-based software used in the financial service industry.