Paolo is a Senior Principal Software Engineer working for Red Hat on the messaging and data streaming team. He is a maintainer of Strimzi, a CNCF incubating project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes using operators. In his previous role, he worked on different integration projects such as an AMQP bridge for Apache Kafka and Spark, and on the EnMasse messaging-as-a-service project to enable the integration with MQTT. He is also a maintainer for different IoT related components in Eclipse Vert.x and Eclipse Paho projects. He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences about Kafka, Strimzi, and IoT, including KubeCon and DevNation. Finally, he is CNCF ambassador and he has been a Microsoft MVP for the Azure category since 2014.