Throughout his career, Niklas Heidloff has always been a champion of innovative application development and an active supporter in the open source software community. After helping drive the success of a German startup, Niklas accepted a position within IBM as a software architect and spent the next years traveling internationally, invigorating developer communities around various collaborative and mobile technologies. In his current role, Niklas is an IBM developer advocate where he is helping educate developers on new cloud based application development tools and techniques.