Geoffrey De Smet
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Geoffrey De Smet (Red Hat) is the lead and founder of OptaPlanner.
Before joining Red Hat in 2010, he was formerly employed as a Java consultant, an A.I. researcher and an enterprise application project lead. He has contributed to many open source projects (such as drools, jbpm, spring-richclient, several maven plugins, weld, arquillian, ceylon, ...). Since he started OptaPlanner in 2006, he’s been passionately addicted to planning optimization.