Tim Ellison is a Distinguished Engineer and Principal Architect at Red Hat. He has worked on enterprise runtime technologies for more than thirty years, primarily focused on open source communities and best practices. Previously the Java CTO for IBM, Tim is an invited member of numerous specification committees, including the Java SE platform specification, and he has contributed to a diverse range of projects including AdoptOpenJDK, Smalltalk, Apache Harmony, Eclipse JDT, Apache Spark, and Quantum Computing libraries. He holds numerous patents in runtime technology and speaks at conferences worldwide.