John Martellaro Application 2012

Background on John Martellaro
Affable, innocuously sarcastic, and selectively social coupled with being a scholar and a tacit gentlemen. I'm secretive. I like surprises. I have extraordinary luck. I'll try anything once (sans illegal). I like lasers, make holograms, take a lot of baths, crave spicy food, and enjoy hard problems.

I've had a career in solving DOD specific problems which lead to my involvement with the XSF. Four years ago, I prototyped a compressed cellular stack to bring commercial cell-phone capabilities to Afganistan. Two years ago, and after the hard work of a tremendous team it was fielded. To prove out the use cases of cellular we performed real-time biometrics identification, which eventually lead to leveraging wearable systems. As a result, created a company focused on head-worn Augmented Reality (AR) to provide situational awareness to war-fighters. In the midst of this work, XMPP was selected as the protocol to facilitate data to/from devices, edge nodes, and cloud infrastructure. Became a member last year, and have been championing XMPP in the DOD space since.

Community Involvement
XMPP Evangelist in Department of Defense/Army Intelligence community.

Founder and CTO of APX Labs, which has a core competency in XMPP related technologies. Oversee the development of AXE and Anchorpoint .NET/JAVA Client/Server XMPP libraries for government specific applications.

Contact Information

 * JID: martellaro@jabber.org
 * Email: john@apx-labs.com
 * Company: APX Labs
 * Website: www.apx-labs.com