Josh Spiegel is a software engineer that develops JSON and XML technology surrounding Oracle Database. Recently, he has been working on extensions to SQL that make it easier to process JSON in the database and has developed new JSON facilities that are part of JDBC 23c to make it easier and more efficient to process JSON from a Java application. He continues to work on the XML processing technologies that are used throughout Oracle. He is the technical lead for the embedded XQuery and XPath processor for Java that is used in Oracle's middleware and cloud software and he designed the Oracle XML Extensions for Hive that enable robust XML processing in Apache Hadoop. In the past, he was a member of the W3C and an editor of the specification for XPath 3.1. He has multiple patents and research conference publications related to database systems.