Alex Kritikos is a highly experienced real time messaging & streaming engineer with 19 years hands on experience. With a background on network programming as well as design and development of globally managed middleware services in the investment banking field, Alex is one of the co-founders of my-Channels: A niche middleware ISV acquired by Software AG in 2012 . Alex has been involved with MQTT and AMQP way before the OASIS standardization efforts began and currently represents Software AG in the MQTT OASIS TC, the AMQP OASIS steering committee / member section, the AMQP OASIS TC and the AMQP OASIS bindings & mappings TC.