Greg Burns is vice president of engineering at Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc. In this role, Burns serves as the chief software architect and one of the main­tainers of the AllJoyn open source software framework, that is now hosted by the AllSeen Alliance. Burns has been the technical lead for AllJoyn since its inception in 2009 and continues to contribute code to the open source project. Prior to Qualcomm Burns developed Bluetooth stacks as CTO of software startup Open Interface North America. He has over 30 years of experience in software fields ranging from compilers and optimizers to se­curity, audio codecs, and network protocols.