Dr. Thomas Fischer is Head of Design and Architecture at noris network and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His current interest focuses on agile and cloud transformation as well as scalable and energy efficient systems for cloud architectures. He leads the Cloud and Cloud Native initiative at noris network. Before joining noris network he focused on research of software architectures in the field of distributed high performance middleware. Besides his research efforts, he gained industry experience by designing scalable IT Systems as Principal IT Architect, and founding a startup for small business IT consulting.