Thomas Segismont is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. With more than 15 years of software development experience, he has worked on projects of all sizes in various sectors: retail banking, utilities, finance, tourism, and hosting. As a Vert.x core committer, he is focused on developing reactive SQL clients for several relational databases, making them a solid foundation for the Hibernate Reactive project. He is also a contributor to Quarkus, the supersonic subatomic Java stack, tailored for the cloud.