As a Red Hat Solution Architect, Roel is working across the BeNeLux in spreading and supporting the Red Hat message. He speaks at conferences, supports customers, prospects & partners with their acquisitions of the JBoss, Mobile, IoT and OpenShift products, as well as being a first contact for technical questions. Additionally he provides presentations, workshops for knowledge sessions, and when necessary, he can provide training. Before his time at Red Hat Roel was a (web)application developer for a wide variety of business applications, with a focus on tier-integration, beans, web services, the Spring framework and security aspects.