Alexandre Alves has over 12 years of experience in software development working for large companies, such as IBM and Oracle. He has worked with network management, CORBA, JEE, web services, OSGi, BPEL, CEP, and middleware technologies in general. He is the co-author of the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification, co-author of BPEL for Java specification, author of the OSGi in Depth book, and a steering committee member of the Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS).