JavaOne 2016 Program Committee

Lance Andersen

Lance Andersen is a principal member of the technical staff at Oracle. He is also the JDBC and RowSet specification lead. Prior to joining Sun in 2000, Andersen worked at Sybase as a senior manager and staff engineer in product support engineering. When he is not burning the midnight oil for Oracle, Andersen teaches tennis at Lucky Dog Tennis.

Twitter handle: @LanceAndersen

Anton Arhipov

Anton Arhipov is a product manager at ZeroTurnaround, working on XRebel, the Java profiler for web applications. His professional interests include everything Java, especially developer tooling, and he was named a Java Champion in 2014. Arhipov is also involved with the GeekOut Java conference and the DevClub.eu developer meetup organization in Tallinn, Estonia. He blogs at arhipov.blogspot.com, speaks at Java conferences, and tweets from @antonarhipov

Twitter handle: @antonarhipov

Wayne Beaton

Wayne Beaton fills the dual role of director of Open Source Projects and technical evangelist at the Eclipse Foundation. He has more than 25 years of professional software development experience, is a content review committee member for JavaOne, a member of the JSR 376 expert group, a long-time contributor to Eclipse open source projects, and a regular presenter at JavaOne, JavaPolis/Devoxx, JAX, and EclipseCon. You can probably find him wandering around the conference muttering something about Smalltalk. When not working, he spends his time watching his kids play hockey at one of the many local arenas.

Twitter handle: @waynebeaton

Alexander Belokrylov

Alexander Belokrylov is an Oracle Java Embedded enthusiast. He has spent more than 15 years in the IT industry. Belokrylov has grown from an engineer to a product leader. As a product manager of Oracle Java ME Embedded at Oracle he is bringing all Java benefits into the microcontroller’s world to create a standard advanced flexible platform for the edge of IoT solutions.

Twitter handle: @gigabel

David Blevins

David Blevins is founder of Tomitribe and a veteran of open source Java EE. He has been both implementing and defining Java EE specifications for more than 10 years and has a strong drive to see Java EE simple, testable, and as light as Java SE. Blevins is cofounder of OpenEJB (1999), Geronimo (2003), and TomEE (2011). He is a member of the EJB 3.0, EJB 3.1, EJB 3.2, Java EE 6, Java EE 7, and Java EE 8 Security Expert Groups, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Blevins is a contributing author to Component-Based Software Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together (Addison Wesley). Blevins is also a regular speaker at JavaOne, Devoxx, ApacheCon, OSCon, JAX, and other Java-focused conferences.

Twitter handle: @dblevins

Eugene Bogaart

Eugene Bogaart is solution architect for Oracle in the Netherlands. Previously he was a trainer in object orientation and Java programming. He has been part of the Dutch Java community since the start of his career and a Java evangelist in the local market since 1995. Bogaart has participated in many program committees, such as NLjug. In his day-to-day work he designs and implements solutions for Oracle customers using on-premises and Oracle Cloud products. In his spare time, he is into Domotica and Internet of Things technology.

Twitter handle: @Bogaart

Bruno Borges

Bruno Borges is Oracle’s principal product manager responsible for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Java, and cloud services, as well developer advocate for the Java platform and Oracle Cloud. He covers topics from Java Embedded to Java SE and JavaFX to Java EE. Borges has more than 15 years of experience as a Java developer in several areas, from mobile to enterprise applications.

Twitter handle: @brunoborges

Alex Buckley

Alex Buckley is the specification lead for the Java language and the Java Virtual Machine at Oracle. He works on a variety of projects to increase the modularity and productivity of the Java Platform, Standard Edition and collaborates widely with experts in academia, industry, and standards bodies. He holds a PhD in computing from Imperial College London.

Benjamin Cabé

Benjamin Cabé, Internet of Things enthusiast and evangelist at the Eclipse Foundation, has years of experience in connecting things, big and small, together. He is an advocate for the use of open source technologies to build Internet of Things solutions, which led him to cofound the Eclipse IoT Working Group in 2011. This working group has become a thriving community of hundreds of developers and thousands of users.

Twitter handle: @kartben

Alexander Casall

Alexander Casall graduated with a master’s degree in computer science in 2011. Since then he has worked at Saxonia Systems AG as a software engineer and become the head of the development team. He focuses on the implementation of modern multitouch applications with JavaFX. In his spare time, he enjoys developing native applications for iOS.

Twitter handle: @sialcasa

Sharat Chander

Sharat Chander has worked in the IT industry for 20 years, for firms such as Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. His background and technical specialty is in Java development tools, graphics design, and product/community management. Chander has been actively involved in the Java Community for 15 years, helping drive greater Java awareness, acceptance, adoption, and advocacy. At Oracle, as the director of Java developer relations, Chander serves as the JavaOne conference content chairperson, a role he's filled for 7 years, where he drives the technical content strategy and Java community involvement in the conference. He is a frequent keynote speaker and participant in developer programs worldwide. Chander holds a BS in corporate finance from the University of Maryland and an MBA in international business from Loyola College, Maryland. You can find Chander at multiple global developer events and Java community engagements. When not growing visibility for Java, he follows his other passion for baseball, actively coaching his 10-year-old son's Little League team and fanatically following his hometown Baltimore Orioles.

Twitter handle: @Sharat_Chander

John Clingan

John Clingan is a senior principal product manager for next-generation platforms at Red Hat JBoss Middleware, including WildFly Swarm (Java EE microservices platform) and Vert.x (reactive toolkit for the JVM). Prior to that, Clingan was a product manager on the GlassFish Server and Java EE product team at Oracle, and prior to that at Sun Microsystems. Clingan has more than 20 years of experience in building customer solutions based on C, Java, Java EE, and Solaris. Clingan also has 8 years of experience teaching Extended University Java courses to intellectually hungry Java students.

Twitter handle: @jclingan

Erik Costlow

Erik Costlow is a product manager within Oracle’s Java Platform Group, focused on the present and future versions of the JDK. He coordinates the JDK root certificate program, evaluating and testing different certificate authorities. At previous JavaOne conferences, he has given presentations on Java’s cryptographic capabilities and building threat models of Java and Java applications. Prior to joining Oracle, Costlow was product manager for HP’s Fortify program analysis capabilities to find security flaws within applications.

Twitter handle: @costlow

Rod Crawford

Rod Crawford is Director of Software Technology at ARM. He is passionate about empowering people through technology, enabling them to garner and communicate relevant knowledge—knowledge that relates to the time and place where they are and to the people around them. Crawford has been part of the mobile computing revolution for 26 years, 22 of them at ARM. Crawford works directly with many of the major open software technologies and companies, helping create new and exciting ways to compute and communicate while on the go, and thus give a voice to the inhabitants of the global village.

Cliff Crocker

Cliff Crocker is an active contributor to the web performance community, evangelizing about the importance of speed as it relates to user behavior and ultimately business ROI. Currently Crocker is working as a product line director for Akamai Technologies, where he spends his time building product strategy for performance and operational analytics. He was previously vice president of product for SOASTA, Inc. and engineering leader for the performance, reliability, and site analytics initiatives for @WalmartLabs. In his spare time, Crocker enjoys skiing in the mountains of Colorado where he resides with his wife and two boys.

Twitter handle: @cliffcrocker

Ryan Cuprak

Ryan Cuprak is an e-formulation analyst at Dassault Systèmes, author of the NetBeans Certification Guide from McGraw-Hill, and president of the Connecticut Java Users Group since 2003. He is also a JavaOne 2011 RockStar presenter. At Dassault Systèmes he is focused on developing data integrations to convert clients’ data and also user interface development. Prior to joining DS he worked for a startup distributed-computing company, TurboWorx, and Eastman Kodak’s Molecular Imaging Systems group, now part of Carestream Health. At TurboWorx he was a Java developer and also a technical sales engineer supporting both presales and professional services. Cuprak has earned a BS in computer science and biology from Loyola University in Chicago. He is a Sun Certified NetBeans IDE Specialist.

Twitter handle: @rcuprak

Joe Darcy

Joe Darcy is a long-time JDK engineer who has worked on projects such as floating-point arithmetic. He also introduced annotation processing to javac, and served as the inaugural release manager for OpenJDK 6, leading the Project Coin language additions and migrating JDK bugs to a JIRA system. Darcy has spoken in at nearly every JavaOne since 2001 and is a JavaOne RockStar.

Twitter handle: @jddarcy

David Delabassee

David Delabassee is a software evangelist working for Oracle; his primary focus is Java on the server side, i.e. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. Prior to Oracle, Delabassee spent a decade at Sun Microsystems focusing on Java end-to-end (from the smart card to the high-end server) and related technologies and developer tools. In his various roles, Delabassee has been involved in numerous Java projects since the early days of this technology. Delabassee lives in Belgium. In his spare time, he enjoys playing video games and LEGO with his daughter. He also enjoys tinkering with technologies such as Java, home automation, electronics, pinballs, etc.

Twitter handle: @delabassee

Linda DeMichiel

Linda DeMichiel is specification lead for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. She is a long-standing member of the Java EE architecture team, initially at Sun, and now at Oracle. DeMichiel holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.

Jeff Dinkins

Jeff Dinkins has worked in the Java Platform Group for 20 years, and is currently the manager of the Java Core Libraries team. Past work includes being a developer on the Swing & AWT teams, as well as managing the Java Media, Java 2D, Java DB, and I18n projects. Dinkins has led the Core Java Platform track for the past several years.

Twitter handle: @JeffAtSun

Mike Duigou

Mike Duigou works on Java-based ocean-going robots at Liquid Robotics and knows that you are envious. He was previously a developer on the Java Core Libraries team at Oracle and contributed to the core collections and Java 8 lambda libraries, which was really awesome fun as well. Duigou has also enjoyed working on autonomous cars, dancing robots, industrial real-time applications, and peer-to-peer networking.

Twitter handle: @mjduigou

Markus Eisele

Markus Eisele is a Java Champion, former Java EE Expert Group member, Java Community member of German DOAG, founder of JavaLand, speaker at Java conferences around the world, and a very well-known figure in the enterprise Java world. He works for Lightbend. He has appeared at many conferences and Java user group meetups, and he blogs and maintains an active social media presence. He has spoken about middleware for many years and will be focused on enterprise-grade Java going forward. He’s been interested in containers and microservice architectures recently and also wrote a book about modern Java EE design patterns. He is excited to educate people about how microservice architectures can integrate and complement existing platforms, and also about how to successfully build resilient applications with Java.

Twitter handle: @myfear

Toni Epple

Anton Epple is a global consultant for a variety of companies in a number of industries, including financial services and aerospace. His clients range from startups to members of the Fortune 500. Epple’s main interest is client-side development, and he has authored books and numerous articles on this topic. He is a member of the NetBeans Dream Team and a Java Champion. In 2013 Epple was selected as a JavaOne RockStar and in 2014 he received a Duke’s Choice award for his work on DukeScript.

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Twitter handle: @monacontoni

Andrea Eubanks

Andrea Eubanks has 25 years’ experience in the software industry. More than eight of those years were spent at Oracle, in roles in server technology engineering and Middle East/Africa sales and marketing, and currently as the strategy and business development lead for Oracle Fusion Middleware development for Oracle Cloud and PaaS solutions in North America. Eubanks led product management and product marketing at VMware for six years, was vice president at Heroku / Salesforce (PaaS products), and vice president at SnapLogic (SaaS integration provider). During her career, Eubanks also held management positions at BEA, Adobe, IBM, and TIBCO.

Ben Evans

Ben Evans is an author, speaker, consultant, and educator. His career highlights to date include being a cofounder of jClarity, a startup that delivers performance tools and services to help development and ops teams, chief architect for Listed Derivatives at Deutsche Bank, performance testing the Google IPO, initial UK trials of 3G networks with BT, building award-winning websites for some of Hollywood's biggest hits of the 90s, developing some of the UK’s very first true e-commerce websites, building multibillion dollar low-latency trading systems, and designing technology to help some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

Evans also helps run the London Java Community and represents the user community as a voting member on Java’s governing body, the JCP Executive Committee. He is a Java Champion and three-time JavaOne RockStar speaker. He is the author of four books: The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Java in a Nutshell, Java: The Legend, and the forthcoming Optimizing Java. He writes regularly for industry publications and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences worldwide.

Evans was born and raised in Cornwall, and holds a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. Before joining the tech industry he was a researcher in theoretical physics, working on theories that are now being tested at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Twitter handle: @kittylyst

Jason Fei

As the senior director of Digital and Consumer Technology Architecture, Jason Fei leads a group of architects in Walgreens’ Digital and Data Engineering division. He is responsible for engineering roadmaps, performance engineering, and all major technology decisions for the division, which includes all consumer-facing digital channels (websites, mobile, in-store, social), back-office business operations (order management, catalog management, content management, customer care), enterprise loyalty, customer management, and campaign management. Fei is a software engineer by training and geek at heart. He has been with Walgreens for more than 16 years.

Jonathan Giles

Jonathan Giles is a software engineer on the JavaFX team at Oracle. He has been working on JavaFX since 2009, primarily focused on developing new UI controls. In his spare time Giles blogs about JavaFX at fxexperience.com, and contributes to a number of open-source projects, including ControlsFX, DataFX, and Scenic View.

Twitter handle: @JonathanGiles

Kelly Goetsch

Kelly Goetsch is director of product management at Oracle, responsible for Oracle's microservices initiatives. Previously, he was a product manager for Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Java SE Cloud Service, and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Goetsch came to Oracle through the ATG acquisition, where he spent more than six years as a senior architect with ATG's Professional Services organization. He spent his last three years at ATG with Walmart Global E-Commerce, serving as chief ATG consultant. Goetsch has published E-Commerce in the Cloud (O'Reilly Media, 2014) and numerous white papers on topics including distributed computing, large-scale e-commerce deployment architectures, performance tuning, and multimaster. He holds a MS in MIS and a BS in entrepreneurship from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has filed for three patents.

Twitter handle: @KellyGoetsch

Frank Greco

Frank Greco is the director of technology for Kaazing Corporation. He works closely with customers on new technology approaches that leverage the value of extending application protocols over the web. Greco has more than 15 years of experience in IT projects and has worked on global architecture, the new IT tech stack, cloud and mobile computing, and innovative user interfaces. Greco has been named a Java Champion by Sun/Oracle for many years and chairs the NYJavaSIG (the largest Java user group in North America) and the NYHTML5 user groups.

Twitter handle: @frankgreco

Gerrit Grunwald

Gerrit Grunwald is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience in software development, with a particular interest in Java desktop application and controls development. Grunwald is also focused on Java on desktop, Java-driven embedded technologies based on Oracle Java SE Embedded, and IoT in general. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects including JFXtras.org as well as his own projects (Medusa, Enzo, SteelSeries Swing, SteelSeries Canvas). He blogs regularly on subjects related to the Internet of Things and JavaFX, and he is an active member of the Java Community, where he founded and leads the Java User Group Münster (Germany). He also is a JavaOne RockStar and Java Champion. He speaks at conferences and user groups internationally and writes for several magazines.

Twitter handle: @hansolo_

Michael Haupt

Michael Haupt is a member of the Nashorn team at Oracle, and also works on the java.lang.invoke libraries. He used to work as a researcher on the Maxine VM and as tech lead of the FastR project at Oracle Labs. Prior to joining Oracle in 2011, Haupt held a postdoc researcher and lecturer position at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

David Heffelfinger

David R. Heffelfinger is an independent consultant based in the greater Washington DC area. He has authored several books on Java EE and related technologies. Heffelfinger has been architecting, designing, and developing software professionally since 1995. He has been using Java as his primary programming language since 1996. He has worked on many large-scale projects for several clients, including the US Department of Homeland Security, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the US Department of Defense. He has a master's degree in software engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Heffelfinger is a frequent speaker at Java conferences such as JavaOne.

Twitter handle: @ensode

Daniel Heidinga

Dan Heidinga is J9’s Virtual Machine team lead and has been involved with virtual machine development since 2007. He represented IBM on both the JSR 292 (invokedynamic) and JSR 335 (lambda) expert groups, and leads J9’s implementation of both JSRs. He’s spent entirely too long staring at Java bytecode while maintaining the verifier and still enjoys an occasional detour into Smalltalk development.

Twitter handle: @DanHeidinga

David Holmes

Dr. David Holmes has been working with the Java platform since 1996. He worked closely with professor Doug Lea in the area of concurrent programming in Java, and for many years presented concurrency tutorials with Lea, and others, at major international conferences (including OOPSLA, ECOOP, JAOO, TOOLS, and JavaOne). Holmes was a member of the JSR-166 expert group that defined the java.util.concurrent Concurrency Utilities for Java 5 and continues to play a small role in its ongoing development. Holmes is a coauthor of Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz et al. Holmes is also coauthor of The Java Programming Language, third and fourth editions, with Ken Arnold and James Gosling.

Returning to his undergraduate interest in real-time systems in the early 2000s, Holmes got involved with the Technical Interpretation committee for the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ - JSR-001) and was heavily involved in producing the RTSJ 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 updates. He then became a member of the expert group for JSR-282, which is/was defining RTSJ 1.1. Holmes left the EG in September 2012.

Holmes joined Sun Microsystems in late 2005 and transitioned to Oracle in 2010. During this time Holmes has worked on the Java Real-Time Product, Oracle Java SE Embedded, and Java SE. He has currently returned to his origins as a member of the Hotspot VM Runtime team, but has worked in a number of Java product development areas, including the development of compact profiles in Java SE 8.

Cay Horstmann

Cay Horstmann grew up in Northern Germany, but, preferring actual snow to freezing rain, he did his graduate studies at Syracuse University and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For four years he was vice president and CTO of an internet startup that went from three people in a tiny office to a public company. Horstmann now teaches computer science at San Jose State University. In his copious spare time he writes books and articles on Java, Scala, and computer science education.

Twitter handle: @cayhorstmann

Josh Juneau

Josh Juneau works as an application developer, system analyst, and database administrator. He is active in many fields of application development, but primarily focuses on Java EE. Juneau is a technical writer for Oracle Technology Network, Java Magazine, and Apress. He is a member of the NetBeans Dream Team, the JCP, and a part of the JSR 372 Expert Group. He enjoys working with the Java community—he is the director of meetings for the Chicago Java User Group.

Twitter handle: @javajuneau

Stefan Karlsson

Stefan Karlsson is a member of the HotSpot JVM Garbage Collection team and has been involved in JVM development for more than 10 years. He was part of the PermGen removal team for JDK 8 and led the G1 Class Unloading G1 project for JDK 8u40.

Michael Keith

Mike Keith has been an object-oriented programming, enterprise, distributed systems, and persistence expert for more than 20 years. He has been an active member of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition expert group as well as many of the subspecifications that make up the enterprise Java portfolio. Keith has represented Oracle on numerous other global committees and expert groups. He is an author, JavaOne RockStar, and regular speaker at conferences and events around the world. Most recently, Keith has been working on public cloud services and creating a mobile PaaS.

Martin Klaehn

Martin Klaehn, based at Lake Constance in southern Germany, works as a software developer at Airbus Defense and Space, creating next-generation ground segment software. His experience lies in building complex software systems developed with Java. This encompasses work on 2009 winner of the Duke’s Choice award in the Network Solution category for ND SatCom satellite communication management software. His support of NetBeans got him elected to the NetBeans Dream Team in 2014. He is a cofounder of JUG Bodensee and community leader for Desktop Java at java.net.

Twitter handle: @Martin_NB

Niko Köbler

Niko Köbler is doing stuff with computers, mostly hacking (functional) on the JVM. He is also running a consulting and training business. Köbler is the colead of a local Java user group and author and speaker at international tech conferences.

Twitter handle: @dasniko

Marcus Lagergren

Marcus Lagergren has been involved with the Java platform since the alpha versions. He worked at Appeal Virtual Machines, a performance-oriented startup offering alternatives to byte code interpretation, slow-running thread implementations, and nonnative code. As one of the principal architects of the JRockit JVM, Lagergren helped make sure that Java became a good alternative to writing programs in native languages.

Marcus contributed to virtual implementations of Java on hypervisors, when virtualization was still in its infancy, and demonstrated with the JRockit VE project that virtual solutions are good alternatives to physical platforms.

Lagergren worked as a member of the Java language team implementing Java 8. He worked on improving support for dynamic languages on the JVM. Being a performance engineer at heart, he demonstrated that dynamic languages, thanks to invokedynamic, achieve similar performance on the JVM compared to languages with a static type system.

Lagergren has coauthored a book on JVM internals, Oracle JRockit—The Definitive Guide. He is also a frequent speaker at Java conferences.

Twitter handle: @lagergren

Jim Laskey

Jim Laskey has been involved in developing computer language compilers/runtimes for more than 40 years. He is currently a senior development manager in the Java Language/Tools group at Oracle, responsible for guiding the Nashorn JavaScript and Dynalink projects. Laskey has also worked on compilers/runtimes at Azul, Apple, Symantec, Prograph, and Dalhousie University.

linkedin.com/in/jlaskey

Dirk Lemmermann

Dirk Lemmermann is an independent Java freelancer located in Zurich, Switzerland. He has developed several UI frameworks for Swing and JavaFX. His current focus is on FlexGanttFX and CalendarFX, which are used for visualizing production schedules and standard calendars.

Lemmermann holds an MS in computer science from the University of Oldenburg in Germany. He worked in a research team at the Robotics Institute at CMU and also for several small and large companies in the US and Europe. He eventually decided to start his own consulting and freelancing company in Switzerland.

Twitter handle: @dlemmermann

Leonardo Lima

Leonardo Lima is CTO at V2COM, leading the development of both embedded software for edge/field devices and server-side software that receives field data and enables fast communication with remote devices. He has more than 10 years of development and architectural experience on mobile, embedded, and server platforms that enable management and operation of highly scalable and fast telemetry and network control systems. Lima is V2COM’s primary representative on the JCP Executive Committee and is the JSR 363 (Units of Measurement) colead for specs.

Twitter handle: @leomrlima

Duncan MacGregor

Duncan MacGregor is a lead developer on the Magik on Java project, which converted GE's Smallworld GIS platform to run on the JVM. As part of this project MacGregor has been responsible for compiler and runtime design, porting and replacement of native components, and performance and optimization at all levels in the software stack, and continues to architect improvements to the language, runtime, and interoperability with Java. His experience with the JVM as a polyglot dynamic language runtime is second to none.

Twitter handle: @aardvark179

Jim Manico

Jim Manico is the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He is also the founder of Brakeman Security, Inc. and is a investor/advisor for Signal Sciences. Manico is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne RockStar speaker community. Manico is also a global board member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications from McGraw-Hill/Oracle Press. For more information, see linkedin.com/in/jmanico

Twitter handle: @manicode

Simon Maple

Simon Maple is a developer advocate at ZeroTurnaround. He has been a Java Champion since 2014 and was a JavaOne RockStar in 2014. He is also a Virtual JUG founder and organizer, a London Java Community coleader, and a RebelLabs author. He is an experienced speaker, having presented at JavaOne, JavaZone, Jfokus, DevoxxUK, DevoxxFR, JavaZone, JMaghreb, and many more including many JUG tours. His passion is around user groups and communities. When not traveling, Maple enjoys spending quality time with his family, and cooking and eating great food.

Twitter handle: @sjmaple

Brian McCallister

Brian McCallister is a programmer who loves that folks are willing to pay him to build systems and write code. He works at Groupon as CTO of Platform. In the past he has worked as a programmer, systems architect, technical writer, engineering manager, and systems administrator on projects ranging from an early cloud provider hosting millions of applications to loom control drivers.

McCallister has been active in open source, particularly around the Apache Software Foundation where he has served on the Board of Directors and as PMC Chairs for the DB and ActiveMQ projects. Within the ASF he has focused on pushing for greater project autonomy, and mentoring and shepherding a number of projects into the foundation, including Cassandra, Mesos, and Jclouds.

Twitter handle: @brianm

Sean Mullan

Sean Mullan is the technical lead of the Java Security Libraries team at Oracle. He is also the OpenJDK Security group lead. Mullan has made many significant contributions to the Java Platform, Standard Edition including the Java XML Signature API (JSR 105) and the Java Certification Path API (JSR 55). He is currently working on new security features for JDK 9.

Twitter handle: @seanjmullan

Kevin Nilson

Kevin Nilson works at Google as team lead of the Chromecast Technical Solutions Engineer team. Nilson is a Java Champion and three-time JavaOne RockStar. He has spoken at conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, O’Reilly Fluent, NFJS SpringOne, JAX, Silicon Valley Code Camp, HTML5DevConf, On Android, and AjaxWorld. Nilson is the leader of the Silicon Valley Java User Group, Silicon Valley Google Developer Group, Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup, and Devoxx4Kids Bay Area.

Twitter handle: @javaclimber

Kirk Pepperdine

Kirk Pepperdine cofounded jClarity, a company dedicated to producing the next generation of smart performance-diagnostic tooling. In addition, he offers Java performance-related services and training. Pepperdine has been performance-tuning Java applications since 1998. Prior to that he developed applications and hardware that included small devices attached to sheep, and devices attached to supercomputing platforms. Pepperdine has written many articles and speaks regularly at conferences on the subject of performance-tuning. He helped evolve javaperformancetuning.com to be a premier resource for performance-tuning information.

Twitter handle: @kcpeppe

Sven Peters

Sven Peters is a software geek working as an evangelist for Atlassian. He started with Java development in 1998 and has been programming for longer than he'd like to admit. Besides coding, his passion is getting the right tools into the hands of those who need it to help build fast-moving, agile, autonomous teams and getting them to be kick-ass. Peters has extensive speaking experience in more than 25 countries on myriad topics.

Twitter handle: @svenpet

Phil Race

Phil Race has been working on JDK client technologies in Java SE and JavaFX for many years. His primary focus has been in the graphics area, specifically text rendering, printing, and imaging.

Sven Reimers

Sven Reimers, based at Lake Constance in southern Germany, works as a systems engineer at Airbus Defence and Space, creating next-generation ground segment software. He has more than 15 years experience building complex software systems, and more than 15 years experience with Java, going back to its early days. In 2009 Reimers was the winner of the Duke’s Choice award in the Network Solutions category for ND SatCom satellite communication management software. Besides his day job, his support for NetBeans got him elected a NetBeans Dream Team member in 2008. He is also community leader for NetBeans and Desktop Java at java.net, a contributor to OpenJFX, and leader and founder of JUG Bodensee. For his long-term commitment to Java and the community, Reimers was named a Java Champion.

Twitter handle: @SvenNB

Mark Reinhold

Mark Reinhold is chief architect of the Java Platform group at Oracle. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, and service loaders. Reinhold was the lead engineer for the JDK 1.2 and 5.0 releases, the JCP specification lead for Java SE 6, and both the project and specification lead for JDK 7 (Java SE 7) and JDK 8 (Java SE 8). He currently leads the JDK 9 and Jigsaw projects in the OpenJDK Community, where he also serves on the governing board. Reinhold holds a PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Twitter handle: @mreinhold

Simon Ritter

Simon Ritter is the deputy CTO of Azul Systems. He has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the UK. Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Ritter moved to Sun in 1996. He then started working with Java technology and has spent time working both in Java development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition, he managed the Java Evangelism team for the core Java platform, Java for client applications, and embedded Java. Now at Azul, he continues to help people understand Java as well as Azul’s JVM technologies and products.

Twitter handle: @speakjava

Vincent Ryan

Vincent Ryan has worked on the JDK for more than 15 years and is currently a member of the Java Security team responsible for developing and enhancing support for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Previously JDK work included Java naming and directory services (JNDI) and LDAP.

Eugene Ryzhikov

Eugene Ryzhikov is a software architect with extensive experience in a wide range of technologies. He has worked on multiple software projects since graduating from Kaunas Technology University in 1990. For most of his career he has been working inside the Java universe using languages such as Java and Scala. He is a big proponent of the importance of UX/UI design and has spent considerable time working in this area. He also works on multiple open-source libraries including ControlsFX, which is the de facto JavaFX custom control library.

Twitter handle: @eryzhikov

Tom Schindl

Tom Schindl is CTO of BestSolution.at located in Tyrol, Western Austria. He's a committer at various Eclipse projects and leads e(fx)clipse, the Eclipse project integrating JavaFX tooling into the Eclipse IDE and providing a complete runtime platform on top of the Eclipse 4 application framework.

Twitter handle: @tomsontom

Chris Seaton

Chris Seaton is a research manager at the Virtual Machine Group in Oracle Labs, where he leads the work to implement Ruby using the next generation of Java Virtual Machine technology, and other projects. In his spare time, he has developed an award-winning medical app that was the first app regulated as a medical device in the UK, and ran a consultancy to help clients such as the NHS develop revolutionary medical software.

Twitter handle: @ChrisGSeaton

Zoran Sevarac

Zoran Sevarac is an assistant professor of software engineering at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He is a Java Champion and member of the NetBeans Dream Team. He is the founder and lead developer of the world's leading open source Java neural network framework Neuroph, which won him the Duke's Choice award in 2013. His main interests include Java, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. He is a lecturer for Java courses at Oracle University. He is also a founder of Open Source Software Development Center at the University of Belgrade and leader of local NetBeans and Data Science community.

Twitter handle: @zsevarac

Pär Sikö

Pär Sikö has been working with Java since its inception and tried everything from architecture and large-enterprise systems to mobile devices. As a developer, Sikö is curious and thorough and knows the importance of pixels and colors. Sikö’s focus on making beautiful applications is a deliberate strategy that has paid off numerous times. Sikö has been a busy speaker for the last couple of years, presenting on the international stage as well as at Swedish conferences. He was named a JavaOne RockStar for his presentation in San Francisco 2011. For Sikö, the key success factor in a presentation is mixing good content with a big portion of humor and he wishes that more people would dare to step away from boring bullet lists and do something new and creative when presenting.

Twitter handle: @per_siko

Ian Skerrett

Ian Skerrett is the VP of Marketing at the Eclipse Foundation. He also helps organize the Eclipse IoT open source community.

Twitter handle: @ianskerrett

Shaun Smith

Shaun Smith is director of product management at Oracle, responsible for the Docker-based Oracle Application Container Cloud. He's a past committer on a number of Eclipse Foundation projects, notably EclipseLink the Java Persistence API reference implementation. He is also an experienced speaker who has presented at JavaOne, Devoxx, EclipseCon, JAX, and many other developer conferences and user groups around the world.

Scott C. Sosna

Scott Sosna is an experienced architect involved with designing and delivering solutions to challenging problems and contributing in all phases of SDLC. He has been creating Java-based solutions since 1999 for business shops and commercial software. Sosna’s areas of interest are contract-based API design, application integration using messaging and RESTful and SOAP services, application performance and scaling, and development operations. He currently works for Dell Storage as a senior principal engineer.

Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and a professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly invited speaker at several international conferences. Subramaniam helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects. He is also a coauthor of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com

Twitter handle: @venkat_s

Kevin Sutter

Kevin Sutter is the lead architect for the Java EE and JPA solutions for WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Liberty Profile. He is also very active with Java and open-source strategies as they relate to IBM’s application middleware.

Twitter handle: @kwsutter

Attila Szegedi

Until recently, Attila Szegedi was a principal member of the technical staff at Oracle, working on Nashorn and Dynlink. He is also known for his work on several open source projects. Most notably he is a contributor to Mozilla Rhino, a JavaScript runtime for the JVM; a contributor to Kiji, Twitter's server-optimized Ruby runtime; and one of the principal developers of the FreeMarker templating language runtime.

Twitter handle: @asz

Dalibor Topić

Dalibor Topić lives in Hamburg, Germany and works as principal product manager for Oracle. He joined the OpenJDK project in order to help make it a successful open source project, and stayed to anchor Java in Linux distributions, and as an all-around Java F/OSS community guy. Topić joined the Java strategy team at Oracle to help provide community feedback into long-term strategic planning.

Twitter handle: @robilad

Stijn Van den Enden

Stijn Van den Enden is CTO at ACA IT-Solutions. He consults with customers about their enterprise system blueprints and on streamlining their development processes. Additionally, he defines and maintains the technical roadmap for the company. Van den Enden’s experience includes software architecture, designing and implementing enterprise-class systems, enterprise application integration, and microservices. He also has a strong background in agile methods. Teaching Java, patterns, architecture, and XML courses is another way Van den Enden is involved with Java EE technology.

Bob Vandette

Bob Vandette has more than 30 years of experience designing and developing system software and hardware products. During his career, he has been involved in two successful startups and created his own company that eventually was sold to Sun Microsystems. Vandette held several roles at Sun Microsystems involved in the development of Sun's Java Virtual Machine technology. Vandette was the lead developer responsible for creating the Java SE Embedded product line at Sun. Vandette's primary focus over the past several years has been the development of Java platforms for embedded solutions. He is currently the Lead for Oracle Java SE Embedded and Java Platform, Micro Edition at Oracle and is the project lead for the OpenJDK Mobile project. His areas of expertise include Java technology, embedded and mobile platforms, virtual machines, emulation technology, and systems software.

Martijn Verburg

Martijn Verburg is a leading expert on software methodology and technical team optimization, with years of experience in running large, distributed organizations. You can find him delivering presentations at major conferences, where he challenges the industry status quo as his alter ego The Diabolical Developer. Verburg is coleader of the London Java Community and leads the global effort for working on Java standards via the Adopt a JSR and Adopt OpenJDK programs. He was recognized as a Java Champion in 2012 for these contributions.

Twitter handle: @karianna

Florian Vogler

Florian Vogler is a system engineer at Airbus Defence and Space located at Lake Constance, Germany. He is an experienced developer working with Java for more than 12 years. His areas of expertise are modular software architecture, development processes, tooling, and the NetBeans platform. In 2009 he was one of the Duke’s Choice award winners in the category Network Solutions for the satellite communication management software developed at ND SatCom. A year later he was elected to the NetBeans Dream Team for his contributions to the NetBeans Project. He is cofounder of the Java user group Bodensee.

Twitter handle: @FlorianNB

Johan Vos

Johan Vos started working with Java in 1995. He was part of the Blackdown team, porting Java to Linux. His main focus is on end-to-end Java, combining back-end systems and mobile/embedded devices. He received a Duke’s Choice award in 2014 for his work on JavaFX on mobile. In 2015, he cofounded Gluon, which allows enterprises to create mobile Java client applications leveraging their existing back-end infrastructure. Gluon received a Duke’s Choice award in 2015. Vos is a Java Champion, a member of the BeJUG steering group, the Devoxx steering group, and JCP. He is the lead author of the Pro JavaFX 8 book, and he has been a speaker at numerous conferences on Java.

Twitter handle: @johanvos

Phillip Webb

Phil Webb is an open source developer employed by Pivotal. He’s a Spring Framework committer and current lead of Spring Boot.

Twitter handle: @phillip_webb

Geertjan Wielenga

Geertjan Wielenga has been promoting open source software since 2004, first within Sun Microsystems and currently as a product manager in Oracle, primarily focused on the NetBeans ecosystem, as well as Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit. He presents at conferences, contributes to books and online journals, and blogs daily at blogs.oracle.com/geertjan

Twitter handle: @geertjanw

Hinkmond Wong

Hinkmond Wong is a consulting member of the technical staff with the Internet of Things (IoT) group at Oracle and has been working at the former Sun Microsystems and now Oracle for more than 20 years. Wong was the specification lead for the Java Community Process (JCP) Java Specification Requests (JSRs) 36, 46, 218, and 219; Java ME Connected Device Configuration (CDC); and Foundation Profile. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MS in computer engineering from Santa Clara University. Wong’s interests include working on proof-of-concept projects using Oracle Java SE Embedded and IoT technologies networked to back-end data center services. His recent project includes investigating IoT Bluetooth healthcare devices connecting to embedded gateway devices using Oracle Java SE Embedded technology and then connecting to back-end middleware big data analytics software. Wong is the author of the IoT-focused book Developing Jini Applications Using J2ME Technology.

Twitter handle: @hinkmond

Dan Woods

Dan Woods is a JVM and cloud enthusiast who has spent the last several years developing distributed systems and DevOps tooling. While at Netflix, he helped build Spinnaker (https://spinnaker.io), and he now helps empower nonprofits by building cloud automation tools for Timshel (https://timshel.com).

Twitter handle: @danveloper

Ari Zilka

Ari Zilka is a venture partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on enterprise, infrastructure, cloud computing, data management, security, and programming frameworks and languages.

Prior to joining Khosla Ventures, Zilka was the chief technology officer at Hortonworks, the premier commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the de facto open source platform for storing, managing, and processing big data. While there, he helped build the product management, sales, and services teams and led the company to ship its initial product. Zilka also brokered several initial partner integrations and designs. More recently, he worked closely with customers building multithousand-node clusters and designing business solutions on the platform, and with the founding architects driving new features into the open source core itself. Zilka also helped shepherd the company’s successful initial public offering.

Previously, Zilka founded Terracotta, a leading data management technology provider, which was later acquired by Software AG. He also served as the founding chief architect of Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company’s new engineering initiatives and built a team of engineers focused on performance management, operations, and cost-saving measures.

Earlier in his career, he served as a consultant at Sapient and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he managed technology development and advised clients on strategy and deployment. Zilka had successful engagements with Gap.com and Nike.com, Harrod’s of London, Siemens, Intel, Compaq, and Barnes & Noble, among many others.

Zilka began his career as a software engineer for a subsidiary of Motorola. He was responsible for much of the data management infrastructure behind wireless networks, and in the mid-1990s, he invented a new object relational database that helped shape today’s database technology landscape. Since then, his software development accomplishments include projects in statistical analysis and data warehousing.

Zilka pursued a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of California, Berkeley with a focus on electrical engineering and computer science, and he also studied mechanical engineering.

Twitter handle: @ikarzali