Jayant Thomas (JT) is the director of software engineering for the IoT apps for GE Digital. He is responsible for building IoT SaaS applications using the Predix platform, and specializes in building microservices-based architecture, reactive, event-driven systems. JT holds a masters in technology from NIIT and MBA in technology from UC Davis, CA, and has 12 patents in the speech language processing, multimodal application, and cloud architectures. When not hacking code, JT spends time with kids and enjoys crossfit training and kickboxing.