Kurt Stam has been working in the enterprise integration space for two decades. He has designed and implemented integration solutions for high-volume distributed systems in the telecommunication, financial, and travel industries. He is a principal middleware developer at Red Hat, where he worked on JBossESB, Apache jUDDI, S-RAMP, SOA Governance, and Fabric8. Currently he is working on the Syndesis project. He is passionate about open source and holds a PhD in computational mechanics. In his spare time, he kayaks along the East Coast of the United States.