Cesar Saavedra has been working in the IT industry since 1990 and holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration. He has worked as a developer, consultant, technical seller, and technical marketer throughout his career. He currently does technical product marketing for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), Eclipse MicroProfile, OpenJDK, Quarkus and Jakarta EE. He also manages the technical marketing for the runtimes, integration, BPM and rules management portfolio, and works closely with engineering and product management on thought leadership. Cesar has authored white papers, eBooks, and blogposts, and has been a conference and webinar speaker presenting to customers and partners. Heiko W. Rupp is an open source enthusiast working for more than a decade at Red Hat in the area of middleware monitoring and management. In this role he has been project lead of the RHQ and Hawkular monitoring systems and has also been contributing to various other projects like Kiali. Currently he helps defining the next way of Java Microservices with his work on Eclipse MicroProfile. As such he is the spec lead of the Eclipse MicroProfile Metrics effort and also contributing to other specifications. Heiko has written the first German book about JBossAS and one of the first German books on EJB3. He lives with his family in Stuttgart, Germany. Jeff Mesnil is employed by Red Hat as a Senior Software Engineer and currently, works for JBoss, Red Hat's middleware division, on the WildFly and JBoss EAP application servers. He is a member of the core team in charge of developing the internals of the application servers and lead its messaging subsystem (which provides the JMS API). Previously, he contributed to the HornetQ messaging broker that was integrated into WildFly and EAP. He is a proponent of Open Source development and all the code he writes either professionally or privately is available under Open Source licenses, these days, it is mostly hosted on GitHub. He has a keen interest on messaging systems and wrote several Open Source libraries related to messaging. Pavol Loffay is Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. Pavol is working on observability tools for microservice architectures. He is mostly involved in the tracing domain, where he is an active committer on the Jaeger and OpenTracing projects. He is also a member of the OpenTracing Specification Council (OTSC) and a lead for the MicroProfile-OpenTracing specification. He has authored many blog posts and presented at several conferences. In his free time, Pavol likes to climb mountains and ski steep slopes in the Alps. Antoine Sabot-Durand is a Java Champion who works for Red Hat where he leads the Java EE, now Jakarta EE CDI spec. He is also involved in various projects linked to the CDI ecosystem, MicroProfile, and Jakarta EE. He is also Member of Devoxx France committee. He lives in France with his wife and 3 kids. Scott Stark started in chemical engineering, got steered into parallel computers as part of his Ph.D. work, and then made software his career, starting with a stint in finance/wall street. He then got into open source with the fledgling JBoss company, working on the application server and Java EE. He has worked with microkernel efforts, IoT efforts, standards, Jakarta EE, Eclipse MicroProfile and Quarkus. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife.