Flavio Cirillo (m) is a Research Scientist of the Cloud Services and Smart Things group at NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany. His research focus is in the Internet-of-Things Analytics and Platforms, especially scalability and federation aspects and semantics enablement, in the scenario of Smart Cities. He is currently one of the main developers and maintainers of the IoT Backend layer of the IoT Architecture of FIWARE. He has worked in IoT related European research project such as FIWARE, MOBiNET and FIESTA-IoT. He has obtained a Master degree in Computer Engineer at the University of Naples Federico II in 2014.