John Feminella is an advocate for curiosity in all people and about all things. He serves as the advisory platform architect at Pivotal, where his daily goal is to transform how the world builds software. He’s also the author of several published research papers on software architecture, and the cofounder of an analytics startup called UpHex.He lives in Charlottesville, VA with his partner, where he likes milkshakes, meta-jokes, and referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios.