Amine Chigani is a Principal Architect at GE Digital. His work focuses on building Industrial IoT solutions on the Predix™ Platform for GE businesses and their customers. He’s equally passionate about the software he builds and about how architecture is employed in building such software across the organization. Amine is a founding member and contributor in the Industrial Internet Consortium’s technology working group. Prior to his current assignment, Amine was an architecture scientist at GE Global Research, a consulting architecture scientist at the Software Engineering Institute, and a member of the computer science faculty at Virginia Tech. Amine earned a PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and the Software Architecture Professional Certificate from the SEI.