Denis Magda is a fierce open source fanatic who started his journey in Sun Microsystems as an open source ambassador and presently settled down at Apache Software Foundation where he is taking a role of Vice President of the Apache Ignite PMC. He is an expert in distributed systems and platforms who actively contributes to Apache Ignite and helps companies and individuals deploy it for mission-critical applications. You can be sure to come across Denis at conferences, workshop and other events sharing his knowledge about the use cases, best practices, and implementation tips and tricks on how to build efficient applications with in-memory data grids, distributed databases and in-memory computing platforms including Apache Ignite and GridGain.

Apart from his open source pursuits, Denis earns for living as the Director of Product Management at GridGain Systems. Before joining GridGain, Denis worked for Oracle Inc. where he led the Java ME Embedded Porting Team -- helping bring Java to IoT.