John Lewis is the Chief Architect for Scholastic, where he leads technology architecture for the enterprise-wide transformation initiatives delivering the digital business capabilities needed across the entire company. John is a 25+ year veteran of the software engineering industry, with a passion for large-scale enterprise architecture, education technology, open source, and agile development methods. John has been a significant contributor to open source projects and communities, including work as a core committer on the early versions of the Spring Framework where he developed the Portlet MVC modules. John was a founding member of the Apereo Foundation, which stewards a number of key open source projects and communities in education, and served on its board of directors for 10 years.