Rebecca Simmonds is a senior software engineer at Red Hat. Here she is part of an emerging technology group, which comprises of both data scientists and developers. She completed a PhD at Newcastle University, in which she developed a platform for scalable, geospatial and temporal analysis of the Twitter data. After this she moved to a small startup company as a Java developer creating solutions to improve performance for a CV analyser. She has a keen interest in architecture design and data analysis, which she is furthering at Red Hat with OpenShift and ML research.