Tomas is a senior technical architect at Oracle. He has 15+ years experience from computer industry in Austria, Ireland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. As a technical architect, a software engineer and a researcher he co-developed architectures and technologies for Web services and middleware in numerous international projects. He contributed to standardization at W3C and OASIS, and he gave a number of talks at various industry and academic events. Tomas has a PhD in Computer Science from the Czech Technical University in Prague.