Paolo is a Principal Software Engineer working for Red Hat on the messaging and IoT team. He is a maintainer of Strimzi, a CNCF sandbox project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes using operators. In his previous role, he worked on different integration projects about AMQP with Apache Kafka and Spark and on the EnMasse messaging-as-a-service project about the integration with MQTT. He is also a maintainer for different IoT related components in Eclipse Vert.x and Eclipse Paho projects. Finally, he has spoken at numerous national and international conferences about Kafka, Strimzi, and IoT.