About: Filip is a Senior Software Engineer for Covalent Technologies and a key participant inCovalent’s Apache Tomcat initiatives. Filip brings 12 years of extensive experience inarchitecture, design and development of distributed application frameworks and containersand is recognized for his top-quality system development skills and continuousparticipation of Open Source development projects. Filip is a committer to the ApacheTomcat project where he is a leading authority on Tomcat clustering and a key contributorto the core of the platform. He also authored the online book Hitch-Hiker's Guide toTomcat. Prior to joining Covalent, Filip worked as a Senior Software Engineer/Architectfor La Quinta Corporation. Previously, Filip has made contributions to softwareinitiatives for Walmart.com, Sony Music, France Telecom and has held a variety of senior software engineering positionswith technology companies in both the United States and Sweden. He received his education at Chalmers University ofTechnology in Gothenburg, Sweden where he majored in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.