Karina Varela

Karina Varela has been working with enterprise technologies for over ten years, focusing on cloud solutions, Java technologies, and the open-source culture.
Her solid knowledge is built on practical experience in development, architecture, delivery, and troubleshooting production applications and products. Having worked at Red Hat, the biggest open-source company in the industry, not only does she bring a vast understanding of the open-source model and the open communities - but she is also largely involved in the delivery of architecture and delivery of critical-mission software in multiple sectors around the globe and was awarded the Red Hat champion recognition.
Karina is well recognized amongst the Java community for articles and blogs, books, talks at international tech conferences, open-source contributions, and active nurturing and management of communities like SOUJava.