Thiago Macieira holds a double degree in Engineering and an MBA. His first meaningful contribution to Open Source was actually about enabling IPv6 for KDE's browser in 2000 and he has been doing IPv6-related work, in one way or another, since then. He was one of the driving forces inside the Open Connectivity Foundation and its adoption of IPv6, CBOR and several other technologies. He has been involved in several Open Source projects for over 15 years, is an experienced C++ developer, maintainer for QtCore and TinyCBOR and works for Intel’s Open Source Technology Center (OTC).