Galder Zamarreño is a core R&D engineer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. He is one of the founding engineers of Infinispan, Red Hat's distributed, in-memory key-value store and he currently spends most of his time developing Infinispan's Javascript client as well as other data grid and caching functionality. He is very keen on functional programming and has been developing Scala since 2009. Lately he's been learning Haskell and has been presenting Elm based Infinispan demos. Prior to joining Red Hat, Galder worked in the Retail industry where he was a software developer involved in the development of an EFT software switch solution based on JBoss technologies.  The love for distributed systems and open source software comes from his days at ESIDE faculty at University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) where he studied a master's degree in Computer Science.