Karina Varela works with enterprise technologies for over ten years, with big focus on cloud solutions. Previously a Red Hatter, she nows works as a Product Manager at IBM. Her solid knowledge is built on experience with development, architecture, delivery, and troubleshooting of customer applications and products used worldwide. Karina became well recognized amongst the Java community for being an international speaker, writer, open-source contributor, and manager of the SOUJava community.