Speaker: Mark Little

I work for Red Hat, where I lead the JBoss Technical Direction and research&development. Prior to this I was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. I have experience with two successful start up companies, and was Chief Architect as well as co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from HP (where I was a distinguished engineer), responsible for our transaction processing systems and standards. I have been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid 1980's and received my PhD on the topic of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems with Replication and Transactions. Over the years I was a Research Fellow at the University and am now a Professor. I am also a Visiting Professor at INSA-Lyon university.

Specialties: Fault tolerant distributed systems, transaction processing, high availability systems, replication, high performance computing, open source, enterprise middleware, SOA, Java, CORBA, Web Services Architecture, REST, standards.