Christian is a Principal middleware architect at Red Hat and specializes in messaging-based enterprise integrations with high scalability and throughput demands. He has been in development for over 10 years, covering a wide range of domains–from embedded systems to UI and UX design and lots of integration in between. He's passionate about software development, loves solving tough technical problems, and enjoys learning new languages and programing paradigms. Christian's preferred languages are Python and Scala, but he spends a lot of time writing Java and is a committer on Apache Camel, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Apollo projects as well as PMC on ActiveMQ.