Alexander Papaspyrou

Essen Area, Germany Germany

Head of IT Operations

Technology / Software / Internet

I am a Computer Scientist at heart, curious in exploring unexploited and alien terrain. I like to cross frontiers and connect people and industries from different fields with information technology. I believe that practical application should be the frontmost goal of all research and development. While I feel that new and unconventional approaches are the main drivers of innovation, they should be always pursued with the integration into proven and widespread technologies in mind. My main achievement in the last two years was helping create the Open Cloud Computing Interface family of specifications, which emerged from the lack of a royalty-free, open interface to modern As-a-Service en..