Ashwin Karpe is a Committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) Member for the Apache Camel project at the Apache Software

Foundation. He has contributed several components to the Apache Camel, ServiceMix, ActiveMQ and CXF community projects. Ashwin regularly participates in Open source discussion forums, conducts seminars/webinars and consults on open source technologies that fuel his passion and interest.

In his day job, Ashwin is a Sr. Principal Consultant and Forward Deployed Engineer at RedHat with two decades of experience in designing, developing and modeling large distributed enterprise systems. Ashwin has an extensive consulting and engineering background in SOA and Distributed Computing Technologies with an extensive set of successfully executed middleware projects.

While not consulting for RedHat or volunteering at Apache, Ashwin continues his pursuit of happiness in Coppell, TX with his family.