Jonas Bonér is a distributed systems innovator and OSS community leader. He co-founded Lightbend (née Typesafe) in 2009 and has authored the Reactive Manifesto, Reactive Principles, and numerous distributed systems design books that set the foundation for how event-driven systems are built today. He is the creator of Akka, Cloudstate, Lagom, and Kalix and has actively contributed to open-source projects, including the now combined AspectWerkz Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) framework and the Eclipse AspectJ project. Jonas is an amateur Jazz musician, a passionate skier, and holds a Bachelor of Science from Mid Sweden University.