Nicholas Papadonis is a Computer Scientist with experience in software engineering, solutions engineering and new product development. He has been employed by Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for interfacing with R&D teams to identify key functionality required for product adoption and growth. Nick also worked for Sun Microsystems R&D for over 9 years as a software engineer, where he served in various product development roles that resulted in new SPARC and Intel-based server products, which are currently used to power the Oracle Cloud.