Hans is an industry veteran in the middleware space with over 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture and distributed systems. He has held senior positions in Systems Engineering at AT&T, Endeca, Tibco, Sun, Solace, and Confluent.

Hans is also a maker, a contributor to several open source IoT related projects, and enjoys tinkering with his electric car, pebble smartwatch, and just about any other interesting device he can get his hands on.

Hans holds an Honours BMath degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada