Lucas is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working for the Kiali project. Prior to joining the Kiali project, he has worked in open source projects like Hawkular, ManageIQ and GateIn Portal; collaborating occasionally on other community projects like Wildfly and Undertow. Before he moved into engineering, he worked as a Solution Architect helping customers to build scalable solutions. He started his career building Geographic Information Systems in the nineties.