Scott Stark started in chemical engineering, got steered into parallel computers as part of his Ph.D. work, and then made software his career, starting with a stint in finance/wall street. He then got into open source with the fledgling JBoss company, working on the application server and Java EE. He has worked with microkernel efforts, IoT efforts, standards, Jakarta EE, Eclipse MicroProfile and Quarkus. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife.