Babis Marmanis

Greater Boston Area United States

VP & CTO at Copyright Clearance Center

Technology / Software / Internet

I am responsible for defining the technology vision and the implementation of all software systems at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). I lead a global team of software professionals with a passion for continuous technological innovation. I have unashamedly based my back-end technology stack on the JVM, for the last 15 years, and have been an early adopter of cloud computing -- primarily, in-house VMware based infrastructures and AWS. Cloud computing leads to distributed computing systems of finer granularity, which is great in terms of flexibility but adds complexity as the "degrees of freedom" of the deployed system grow. Since enterprise software products must be robust, secure, and ...