Karina Varela is a member of the application services product team at Red Hat and an expert on the subject of business automation. She brings more than a decade of experience with development, architecture, delivery, and troubleshooting of critical software in enterprise environments for different sectors around the world. Additionally, she is a coordinator of the world’s largest Java User Group, SouJava. In her free time, she enjoys contributing to open source projects, writing, and speaking at global events.