Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. CEO, CTO, and Co-Founder of ZettaScale Technology Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and co-founder of ZettaScale Technology. At ZettaScale, he leads a world-class team dedicated to revolutionizing distributed computing, ensuring that every connected human and machine can communicate, compute, and store data anywhere, at any scale, efficiently, and securely. A globally recognized expert in Cloud-to-Thing Continuum, high-performance distributed systems, and real-time computing, Angelo is the inventor of the Zenoh protocol and the lead of the Eclipse Zenoh project. His work is reshaping the future of data-centric and event-driven architectures, bridging the gap between cloud, edge, and embedded systems. With a prolific research background, Angelo has authored over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, workshops, and industry magazines. He has also contributed to over ten international standards, shaping the evolution of real-time and large-scale distributed computing. Angelo was a founding Co-Chair of the OMG DDS standard, playing a key role in its development and adoption. His leadership in DDS continued until 2015, when he stepped away due to technical divergences and committed himself to designing and implementing the first Zenoh protocol, paving the way for the next generation of data-centric middleware.