Sven Reimers is an industrial engineer with over 25 years of experience in designing and implementing distributed systems which have a focus in the engineering domain. He was the lead software architect for a system and network management solution for satellite communication networks, which received the Duke'c Choice award. He currently works on ground segment software for earth observation satellite systems. He is author of several scientific articles, co-author of some Java community driven books and is a long term member of the program committee of the JavaOne conference. He was chosen a Java Champion by his peers. Currently, he works as an eXpert for functional chain software architecture for earth observation systems at Airbus Defence and Space