Arila Barnes is a principal architect at GE Renewables Digital in San Ramon, California, with more than 15 years’ experience in software development and architecture, and more than  10 years’ experience applying Agile practices. She joined GE Software in 2013 and has been involved in the Predix cloud platform from product architecture to feature development. She has spoken at Predix Transform 2016, SATURN 2016, SATURN 2017, and BMSD 2015. Prior to joining GE Digital, Arila was principal text analytics architect with SAS Institute, where she developed several web products. She holds an MS in software engineering from the University of Scranton.