Thijs is a Researcher building cool stuff at Intel Labs. His key interests include system performance and distributed systems. In past career moves, he did work on HPC, Grids, and Cloud/Edge for companies such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, and the German Aerospace Center. He helped make shipbuilding easier, ran massive parallel workloads, managed tons of compute in hybrid environments, and created one of the first standards for the Cloud more than a decade ago. Now focused on making orchestration easier with tools such as Kubernetes using e.g. AI/ML techniques.