Sterling Huges is CTO / Co-Founder of Runtime and architect behind Apache Mynewt. Prior to Runtime, Sterling was with Silver Spring Networks, an Industrial IoT network where more that 23 million devices were deployed in demanding utility and smart city environments. Sterling lead the development of Silver Spring Network’s wireless IPv6 mesh networking fabric, authoring more than 20 domestic and international patents in the process. Prior to Silver Spring, Sterling was one of the core developers of the PHP programming language, and spent 10 years scaling the high traffic websites of the day, including Friendster, Lycos, and FAST Search and Transfer. Sterling is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and a believer in open-source as the basis for critical infrastructure.