Daniel is the founder and CTO of BitRock, developers of the popular Bitnami Cloud Application Library and management tools. Previously, he was part of the original engineering teams at Covalent technologies (acquired by VMWare) and Devicescape. He holds a Ms. of Sc. in Telecommunications from Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Sevilla and Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, with a focus on optical networking. Daniel has contributed to various web infrastructure open source projects, published multiple technical books and became a member of the Apache Software Foundation, although he is not currently active with the project.