My passion has always been to make devices talk to one another. I was a Heathkit junky, augmenting kits with parts from RadioShack and Jameco. An original "Maker". I ended up at MIT and have dedicated my professional career to IoT and Cloud Services.At the MIT Media Lab , I was exposed to projects run by Walter Bender and Pattie Maes. After graduating from MIT, I ended up working for a device-to-device communication startup. Our work later became the basis of numerous Use Cases for smart homes, offices, file sharing, and assisted decision making using conditional logic controlled via a publicly accessible Web Portal ("the Cloud"), which we called DeviceTalk.com. By 1999, we were licensing it to mobile operators and using Skytel's 2-way paging system to demonstrate push notifications and formatted alerts, triggered off of configurable events.After showing this "cloud-based" solution to Amazon, they ended up acquiring the company and I moved to Seattle to lead the Amazon Anywhere initiative and device strategy. For 5 years, I led/managed every m-commerce release in the US, Europe, and Asia by exposing Amazon's core services to devices and partners. My Anywhere team worked with the Associates team to launch the first official AWS product in 2002 called ECS. ECS proved that developers needed storage, computing, and other IaaS features to innovate. Since we didn't have billing and metering in place, the goal was to get end consumers to land on Amazon's site to complete a transaction. From Day 1, ECS allowed developers to upload custom programs that would process code locally on AMZN AWS servers, outputing HTML, JSON, Javascript, VXML, and many other Markup Languages. Books have been written about this...I worked on the Subscription Management Service (Rentals, Prime) before leaving AMZN in 2006. I have since focused on building an IoT platform on steroids. Sirqul's EaaS is that platform, conceived by a team that has been thinking of IoT and RAD for over 20 years.