Alex Van Boxel is a Principal Architect at Collibra. With an engineering background in Research and Development at Alcatel-Lucent, Progress Software, and Veepee he loves to focus on the fundamental building blocks of the software industry. That means reading, understanding, and contributing to specifications, as well as contributing to the Open Source projects that run through our infrastructure. He loves talking about technology and sharing his knowledge through mentoring, writing articles, and public speaking.