Thiago Macieira holds a double degree in Engineering and an MBA. He has been involved in several Open Source projects for over 15 years and is an experienced C++ developer, having spent the better part of the last 10 years developing Qt and Qt-based software. He was also behind the creation of the Qt Project, an open source project around the Qt codebase. He works for Intel’s Open Source Technology Center (OTC) and he collects too many air miles going to conferences speaking about C++ and OSS.