I have worked in the field of distributed network, operating systems and middleware for over 20 years. I'm the author of more than 20 scientific papers and 30 patents. I was one of the architects in building IBM's Corporate Data lake that is supporting 100s of data science projects within IBM. My doctoral work was one of the foundations of what became known as Software Defined Networking. I have made significant contributions in the fields of messaging, distributed system and hybrid cloud data analytics.