Mike Dierken, has 20 years experience in software engineering, architecture and engineering management. Most recently at Amazon, Mike led the engineering team responsible for the storage and publishing of every offer listed for sale on Amazon's global e-commerce platform. Prior to Amazon, Mike worked for a number of years at several startups focusing on XML, e-commerce, internet-scale Web services and publish/subscribe technologies. Mike is an active participant in the Web technology community having been one of the early champions of the REST architectural style and having helped found the Apache XML open-source project.