Speaker

JAX features a huge list of worldwide known Java experts. The list below shows the first set of speakers, more will follow soon as we continue to plan the conference.

Ben Adida

Ben Adida is a technologist with extensive experience in secure web architecture. His passion isautonomy, or how to empower individuals on the Internet with secure, private, irrevocable, and efficient access to their data. Specifically, Dr. Adida builds software related to secure and private personal health records, secure web applications, interoperable web-based structured data, and secure voting systems. He has developed extensive free software for close to 15 years. He is a technical advisor to Creative Commons and, in that capacity, chairs a W3C task force on bridging the semantic and clickable webs.

 

Daniel Allen Red Hat, Inc.

As Principal Software Engineer at JBoss, by Red Hat, Dan works as the community liaison and contributor for the Seam, Weld and Arquillian projects. He's the author of Seam in Action (Manning), served as a representative for Red Hat on the JSR-314 Expert Group (JSF 2.0), writes for IBM developerWorks and NFJS magazine and is an internationally recognized speaker, appearing at major industry conferences including JavaOne, Devoxx, NFJS, JAX and Jazoon. In 2009, he was added to the JavaOne Rock Star Hall of Fame for his talk "Conversations and pageflows on the JSF platform" and was named a JBossWorld Top Rated Presenter that same year. He's also recognized as a JAX Hall of Fame speaker.

 

Dion Almaer Set Direction

Dion Almaer is the founder of a brand new company named Set Direction where he has the pleasure of working with Ben Galbraith. The pair co-founded Ajaxian.com together, and recently launched a new property called FunctionSource.com. They are now focused on helping developers deliver fantastic experiences and working to set the direction of the software industry as a whole. Dion has been a technologist and a developer writing Web applications since it took over from Gopher. He has been fortunate enough to speak around the world, has published many articles, a book, and of course covers life the universe and everything on his blog at almaer.com/blog. He has been called a human aggregator, and you can see that in full force if you follow him on Twitter @dalmaer.

 

Jay Balunas JBoss, by Red Hat Inc.

Jay Balunas, principal software engineer at Red Hat, works as a JBoss core developer directing the AeroGear project, and leading the mobile platform initiatives for JBoss. Most of his career has been focused on understanding the enterprise concerns that developers face and creating frameworks to solve them. He is passionate about open source, standards, and is one of Red Hat's W3C representatives, and is also active in the Java Community Process (JCP). He was previously the RichFaces project lead, and has been involved with many other open source projects including jQuery, Forge, Seam, and Weld. Jay has been architecting and developing enterprise applications and projects for over fourteen years, specializing in mobile device integration, web tier frameworks, UI design, and integration. Jay has spoken at many conferences and user groups such as JavaOne, JSFSummit, JBoss World, JUDCon, and various JUGs. Jay blogs about AeroGear, mobile technologies, HTML5, RichFaces, and other rich internet application technologies at http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Jay

 

Jyoti Bansal AppDynamics

Jyoti Bansal founded AppDynamics in early 2008 with the vision of defining the next-generation of application performance management (APM) solutions for distributed applications running in cloud, virtual, and physical environments. Before founding AppDynamics, Jyoti led the design and architecture for several products at Wily Technology, and also held senior roles at Datasweept and netLens. Jyoti received his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is the lead inventor on 14 US patent applications in the field of distributed applications management.

 

Lincoln Baxter III JBoss by Red Hat, Inc.

Lincoln Baxter, III is a Senior Software Engineer at JBoss, by Red Hat. He is the project-lead of Seam Forge – a standards based rapid application development tool, the founder of OCPSoft.com, and creator of PrettyFaces – URL-Rewriting and SEO extensions for Servlet, Java EE, and JSF. He is also the creator of PrettyTime – Social-style date & time formatting for Java, a member of the JBoss Seam Team, and a member of the JSF2 Expert Group. When he is not speaking at conferences, swimming, running, or playing Ultimate Frisbee, Lincoln is focused on improving the openness of Java, the Java Community Process(JCP), and bringing the J2EE platform to small businesses and freelancers. You can stay current on his latest open-source developments by following him on Twitter (@lincolnthree), or subscribing to his blog at http://ocpsoft.com/.

 

Tim Berglund August Technology Group, LLC

Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He is founder and principal software developer at the August Technology Group, a technology consulting firm focused on the JVM. He is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User Group. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony. He lives in Littleton with the wife of his youth and their three children.

 

Stephen Burton AppDynamics

Stephen Burton is Tech Evangelist at AppDynamics and is responsible for promoting best practice application performance management (APM) for distributed applications running in cloud, virtual and physical environments. Before joining AppDynamics, Stephen held senior product management positions at OpTier and Precise leading innovation and creative solutions to help customers better manage the performance of their applications. Stephen has previously worked in pre-sales and also spent many years as a senior developer and application support engineer when his career began at Sapient. Stephen received his BS in Computer Science from Lancaster University, UK. He enjoys speed and is a keen motorsport/formula 1 fan and hopes one day to become The Stig.

 

Doug Clarke Oracle

Doug Clarke is a Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware Persistence solutions with primary responsibility for Oracle TopLink. Doug also plays an active role in the Eclipse community as co-lead of the EclipseLink project, member of the EclipseRT project management council and member of the Architecture Council. With a background in product development, consulting, and education Doug brings together concrete experiences from projects of various sizes and industries with a practical approach to design, testing, and performance tuning.

 

Christophe Coenraets Adobe

Christophe Coenraets is a Technical Evangelist for Adobe where he focuses on Rich Internet Applications and Enterprise Integration. He has been working on Flex since the early days of the product in 2003. In his previous role at Macromedia, Christophe worked on JRun, the company’s J2EE application server. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe was managing Java and Internet applications Evangelism at Sybase and Powersoft. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 15 years. He blogs at http://coenraets.org.

 

Scott Delap Riot Games

Scott Delap is a Scalability Architect at Riot Games, Inc. creator of the award winning online MOBA game League of Legends. He focuses on architecture for large scale, fault tolerant application platforms. Scott is also the former lead Java editor for InfoQ.com. In past lives Scott is the author of the popular Desktop Java Live ebook and a seasoned UI developer. Scott is a frequent presenter at conferences such as JavaOne, QCon, and No Fluff Just Stuff. He won a Java Rockstar Award for his 2006 JavaOne presentation on Swing Threading.

 

Linda DeMichiel Oracle

Linda DeMichiel is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle and is specification lead for the Java EE 7 Platform (JSR-342). She is also currently specification lead for Java Persistence 2.1 (JSR-338). Linda has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, working primarily in the areas of database technologies and middleware, and has been a member of the Java EE architecture team since its inception at Sun. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and lives in the SF Bay area.

 

Ben Forta Adobe

Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc's Director of Platform Evangelism. In that capacity he spends a considerable amount of time talking and writing about Adobe products (with an emphasis on ColdFusion and Flex), and providing feedback to help shape the future direction of the products. In a prior life Ben was a ColdFusion customer --he wrote one of the first large high visibility web sites using the product. Ben is also the author of books on ColdFusion, SQL, Windows 2000, JSP, WAP, Regular Expressions, and more. His books page has details on these, many of which have been translated into 15 languages. Before joining Adobe, Ben helped found a company called Car.com which provides automotive services (buy a car, sell a car, etc) over the Web. Car.com (including Stoneage) is one of the largest automotive web sites out there, was written entirely in ColdFusion, and is now owned by Auto-By-Tel.

 

Paul Fremantle WSO2

Paul Fremantle is CTO of WSO2, where he works on Open Source projects in Apache, including the Apache Synapse and Incubator projects. He has contributed to Apache since the first Apache SOAP project. While at IBM, he was instrumental in starting up the Apache WSIF and Apache Woden projects, as well as being heavily involved in the AxisC/C++ initiative, where he led IBM's involvement. Paul was a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM, where he was the lead architect and co-creator of IBM's Web Services Gateway. Paul is the co-chair of the OASIS WS-RX technical committee and led the JSR110 committee (JWSDL). Before joining IBM, Paul worked as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry. Publications include co-authoring "Building Web Services in Java, 2nd Edition", articles on Web Services and SOA, and a redbook - "The XML Files: Using XML and XSL in WebSphere". Paul has presented many times at ApacheCon, Colorado Software Summit, XML Europe, Software Architecture and other industry conferences. Paul has an M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy and an M.Sc in Computation from Oxford University. He also plays the tin-whistle.

 

Ben Galbraith Set Direction

Ben Galbraith, together with his long-time friend Dion Almaer, forms one-half of the dynamic "Ben and Dion" duo that founded Ajaxian.com, headed Developer Tools at Mozilla, ran Developer Relations at Palm and is now working on a new start-up called Set Direction. Ben's been writing code since he was six and starting businesses since he was ten; he's written books, given hundreds of award-winning presentations world-wide, produced a few technical conferences, sold two companies, and has held CEO, CIO, CTO, and Software Architect positions in the medical, publishing, media, consumer eletronics, advertising, software and internet industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and five children.

 

Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro Oracle

Aurelio is a Principal Product Manager for the Java Platform Group at Oracle. He has been in charge of managing the product requirements for Oracle’s JDK since joining Oracle through the Sun acquisition in 2010. Before that he worked on Sun Microsystems for the Java Product Management team. Aurelio holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and Bachelor degree in Systems Engineering from Universidad de Lima.

 

Ted Goddard ICEsoft Technologies, Inc.

Ted Goddard is the Chief Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and is the technical lead for the JavaServer Faces Ajax framework, ICEfaces, and the Ajax Push framework, ICEpush. Following a PhD in Mathematics from Emory University that answered open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, he proceeded with post-doctoral research in component and web-based collaborative technologies. He has held positions at Sun Microsystems, AudeSi Technologies, and Wind River Systems, and currently particpates in the JavaServer Faces expert group.

 

David Green Tasktop Technologies

David Green is Vice President of Engineering at Tasktop Technologies. Prior to Tasktop, David was a founding member of MAKE Technologies where he held the positions of CTO, Vice President of Technology and Principal Tools Architect. At MAKE David pioneered a model-driven approach to legacy modernization on the Eclipse platform, integrating business requirements, semantic code generation and data transformation. David is an Eclipse committer, and creator of Mylyn WikiText, a framework and tools for integrating wiki formatting into the Eclipse platform. David is well known for his widely read blog Green's Opinion and apps for iPhone and Android.

 

Jeremy Grelle SpringSource, a division of VMware

Jeremy Grelle is an open source software engineer with SpringSource, a division of VMware, who specializes in bringing the cutting-edge techniques of web application development to the Java and Spring ecosystems. He is the creator of the Spring JavaScript, Spring Faces, and Spring BlazeDS Integration projects, and he represents SpringSource on the JSR-314 Expert Group for JSF 2.0. He is a software artisan with extensive experience in combining server-side Java with the latest web browser technologies to deliver a rich and usable experience for the end user on the web.

 

Neil Griffin Liferay, Inc.

Neil Griffin is a Senior Software Architect for Liferay, Inc. and represents the company on the JSF expert group. Neil has 18 years of professional experience in software engineering, and is a contributing author to the JSF 2.0 Complete Reference published by McGraw Hill. Neil is the lead developer at portletfaces.org -- a site that hosts several open source projects related to JSF and portlets. He is also the lead developer of the PortletFaces Bridge, AlloyFaces, and LiferayFaces projects. Additionally, Neil works closely with ICEsoft to ensure that ICEfaces 2.x performs well inside Liferay Portal. Neil has spoken at several conferences including JSFOne 2008, JSF Summit 2009, Jazoon 2009, CommunityOne 2009, and Liferay WCS 2010. 8) Links: JSFOne 208: http://java.dzone.com/videos/filthy-rich-portlets Jazoon 2009: http://www.parleys.com/ #id=363&st=5&sl=38 Blog: http://www.liferay.com/web/ngriffin/blog

 

Arun Gupta Oracle

Arun Gupta is a Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 14 years of experience in software industry working in various distributed computing technologies, Java(TM) platform, and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works very closely to create and foster the community around Java EE, GlassFish, and related technologies. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other companies. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and since then he has contributed to all Java EE releases. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta. This blog has over 1000 blog entries with frequent vistors from all over the world reaching upto 25,000 hits a day. He has extensive world-wide speaking experience on multiple technologies.

 

Romain Guy Google

Romain Guy is a software engineer at Google. After spending years having fun with large UIs on the desktop and talking about them at conferences, in blogs, magazines and books, Romain decided to go for the small screen and joined the Android project, an Open Source operating system for mobile phones. He's now trying to make mobile phone UIs as fun and exciting as desktop ones. He writes technical articles and posts photography on his blog at http://curious-creature.org

 

Chet Haase Google

Chet is a graphics geek. He has worked across the industry on various platforms and technologies that put the pixels on the screen. He worked on the Java desktop library at Sun Microsystems, on Java2D, Swing, and animation. He worked on the Flex SDK team at Adobe, writing the effects framework for Flex 4. And he now works at Google on the Android project. He posts articles and videos on his technical blog at http://graphics-geek.blogspot.com.

 

Derek Henninger VMware

 

Miško Hevery Google

Miško Hevery works as an Agile Coach at Google where he is responsible for coaching Googlers to maintain the high level of automated testing culture. This allows Google to do frequent releases of its web applications with consistent high quality. Previously he worked at Adobe, Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Xerox (to name a few), where he became an expert in building web applications in web related technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Flex and ActionScript. He is very involved in Open Source community and an author of several open source projects such as Angular (http://angularjs.org) and JsTestDriver (http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver).

 

Daniel Hinojosa

Daniel Hinojosa has been a self-employed developer, teacher and speaker for private business, education, and government since 1999. He also currently teaches programming at the University of New Mexico Continuing Education. His business is revolved around the Java ecosystem, encompassing multiple languages and frameworks. Daniel is a Pomodoro Technique practitioner and is co-founder of the Albuquerque Java User's Group in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

Ian Hlavats Tarantula Consulting Inc.

Ian Hlavats is an experienced software developer, consultant, and instructor specializing in JavaServer Faces and Java EE. With more than 10 years experience as a web developer, he has successfully designed, implemented and released many applications for international clients in government, education, insurance, entertainment, and other industries. Ian has been teaching Java programming in college and corporate training environments since 2003, including an extended Java training engagement with Cognos/IBM. He holds a Bachelor of Humanities degree from Carleton University and certificates in Enterprise Java Development and Web Design from Algonquin College. In 2009, he wrote a book titled "JSF 1.2 Components" that was published by PACKT Publishing. Ian also developed JSFToolbox for Dreamweaver, a suite of design and coding extensions for Adobe Dreamweaver to support JSF development with the Adobe Creative Suite.

 

Allen Holub Holub Associates

Allen Holub has worked in the computer industry since 1979 on everything from operating systems, to compilers, to web applications. He is a consultant, providing training and mentoring in Agile process, OO-Design, and Java development. He also performs technical due diligence, design reviews, and even slings code on occasion. Allen was an early adopter of Java (since 1995). He worked in C++ for eight years before that and in many other languages as well. His current works primarily with cloud-based AJAX applications built with GWT, Java, JQuery, JavaCcript, and PHP. He is a recognized expert in OO-Design, UML, and process. Allen served as a Chief Technology Officer at NetReliance, Inc.---an internet-security-infrastructure company---and iExperiment.net. He sit's on the board of advisors for Ascenium Corp. and Ontometrics. He was the Security-Track chair for the Software Development conference. Allen has authored nine books (including Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code, Taming Java Threads, and Compiler Design in C) and 200+ magazine articles (for SD Times, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Programmers Journal, Byte, MSJ, and others). Allen was a Contributing Editor at JavaWorld and SD Times. He wrote the popular "OO-Design Process" column for the IBM DeveloperWorks Component Zone, and was the technical editor of CMP Media's Java Solutions. Allen has taught regularly for the University of California (Berkeley) Extension since 1983. Contact Allen at http://www.holub.com/allen.html

 

Cedric Huesler Adobe

Cedric Huesler is Enterprise Platform Evangelist and joined Adobe with the acquisition of Day Software in October 2010. Prior to Adobe, Mr Huesler was the Engineering Director at Local.ch, Switzerland’s phone book and Yellow Pages, responsible for architecting and building a scalable, cost-efficient and easy-to-use search engine built on open-source technologies. Mr Huesler has over 12 years of experience in the content management space working at Obtree Technologies and OpenText. He lives in Basel (Switzerland) and loves spending time hiking and skiing in the alps.

 

Pieter Humphrey Oracle

Pieter Humphrey is a principal product director at Oracle, covering core Fusion Middleware Java development tools like Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, Workshop for WebLogic, JDeveloper/ADF, EclipseLink. Pieter has been with BEA/Oracle since 2001 working with Enteprise Java.

 

Jason Hunter MarkLogic

Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with MarkLogic, and the father of MarkMail.org. He's the author of "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly Media) and the creator of the JDOM open source project for Java-optimized XML manipulation. He's also an Apache Software Foundation Member and former Vice-President, and as Apache's representative to the Java Community Process Executive Committee he established a landmark agreement for open source Java. He's an original contributor to Apache Tomcat, a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and XQJ API development, and a recognized Java Champion.

 

Rod Johnson VMware, Creator of Spring Framework

Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is a best-selling author, experienced consultant, and open source developer, as well as a popular conference speaker. Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002) was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE. The sequel, J2EE without EJB (July 2004, with Juergen Hoeller), has proven almost equally significant, establishing a comprehensive vision for lightweight, post-EJB J2EE development. Rod has extensive experience as a consultant in a wide range of industries: principally, finance, media and insurance. He has specialized in server-side Java development since 1996. Prior to that, he worked mainly in C and C++. His experience as a consultant has led him to see problems from a client's perspective as well as a technology perspective, and has driven his influential criticism of bloated, inefficient, orthodox approaches to J2EE architecture, which have delivered very poor results for stakeholders. Rod is the founder of the Spring Framework, which began from code published with Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Along with Juergen Hoeller, he continues to lead the development of Spring. He regularly speaks at conferences in the US, Europe and Asia, including the ServerSide Symposium (2003, 2004 and 2005), JavaPolis (Europe's leading Java conference), and JAOO (2004). Engagements in 2005 include two presentations at JavaOne 2005 and a keynote at the JavaWorld 2005 conference (Tokyo, June). Rod serves in the JCP on the Expert Groups defining the Servlet 2.4 and JDO 2.0 specifications. Rod continues to be actively involved in client projects at Interface21, as well as Spring development, writing and evangelism.

 

Ales Justin RedHat

Ales Justin is a serious Java aficionado with a wide-ranging background from energy management to customer service systems. He was the JBoss Microcontainer project lead and currently leads the Weld project, Red Hat's JSR-299/CDI reference implementation, while still contributing to ApplicationServer, Seam, Arquillian and many other JBoss projects. Ales holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Ljubljana.

 

Max Katz Exadel

Max Katz heads Developer Relations for Tiggzi (tiggzi.com), a cloud-based platform for building HTML5 and hybrid mobile apps created by Exadel. Max has also been involved with RichFaces (JSF component library) since its inception, publishing numerous articles, providing consulting and training, and authoring two “Practical RichFaces” books (Apress, 2008, 2011). Max also co-authored the DZone RichFaces 3 Refcard and the DZone RichFaces 4 Refcard. You can find Max's writings about Web and mobile technologies on his blog, mkblog.exadel.com, and you can find his thoughts about these topics and others on Twitter at @maxkatz. Max holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from Golden Gate University.

 

Kohsuke Kawaguchi CloudBees

I'm a software engineer who enjoys writing code and solving problems. I have been working on a large number of open-source projects. I am probably best known as the creator of Hudson, a continuous integration server. My projects span many different areas of the technology, but my main interest is around developer tools, XML, and web services in Java. I have worked for Sun Microsystems, Inc. for about 8 years, and then briefly worked for Oracle as Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010.

 

Chris Keene VMware

Chris Keene is busily ripping down the barriers that prevent computers from doing what we need them to do. Foremost among these are the complexity of building web apps and needless heartache in deploying and maintaining those apps. Chris is Vice President of Cloud Ecosystems at VMware, which purchased his previous company, WaveMaker. He also co-founded Persistence Software, which created object-relational mapping and licensed the technology to Sun for EJB.

 

Mik Kersten Tasktop Technologies

Mik Kersten is the President and CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of Mylyn and member of the Eclipse Architecture Council and Board of Directors. While on the AspectJ team at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tool support. He then created Mylyn and the Task-Focused Interface during his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Mik likes building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Read Mik's blog at http://tasktop.com/blog

 

Gavin King Red Hat

Gavin King is the creator of Hibernate, a popular object/relational persistence solution for Java, and Seam, an application framework for enterprise Java. He contributed to the Java Community Process standards as Red Hat representative for the EJB, JPA, JSF specifications and as spec lead of the CDI specification. At Red Hat, he's currently working on Ceylon, a new programming language for the JVM.

 

Roger Kitain Oracle Corporation

Roger Kitain is a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle where he has spent most of his time in the web technology space since 1997. Roger has been involved with the JavaServer Faces technology since its inception, and has co-led the JavaServer Faces Specification since JSF 1.2. He has presented at many conferences including JavaOne, Dexoxx, Jazoon, Ajax Experience, Ajax World.

 

Tobias Kunze Briseńo Red Hat

As co-founder and former CTO of Makara, Tobias is now driving the technical vision behind Red Hat’s PaaS strategy with his continuing passion for cloud, web development, and high-performance computing. Prior to co-founding Makara, Tobias ran development and operations for Lycos’ price comparison franchise, serving many tier-1 clients such as AOL, Yahoo!, and T-Online. Before that, he served in lead technical roles at many innovative web and media companies.

 

Brian Leathem JBoss

Brian Leathem is a Senior Software Engineer at JBoss, by Red Hat, working as a RichFaces Core developer. An early adopter of JavaEE 6 and the CDI programming model, Brian also is the Lead of the Seam Faces Module. Having been involved with Seam 3 from its early stages, Brian helped the project bridge framework gaps with CDI/JSF integration. A firm believer in the power of open standards, Brian is keen to help shape the evolution of the JSF standard, to be the tool developers need it to be.

 

Josh Long SpringSource

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate. Josh is the author of Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, and a SpringSource committer and contributor. When he's not hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems. He blogs atblog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.

 

Frank Maker Handy Codeworks

Frank is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis concentrating on Embedded Software and Systems. Since its introduction, he has been doing systems research with Android on automatic low power adaptation techniques. He has worked various fortune 500 embedded systems companies such as Broadcom, Motorola and BMW. He also owns his own consulting firm, Handy Codeworks, which offers technical services for Andoid systems software and Android training for Marakana. Professionally he enjoys embedded Linux/Android systems hacking and the occasional hardware project. In his spare time he spends time with his wonderful wife, baby daughter and dog.

 

Kito D. Mann JSFCentral

Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

 

Matthew McCullough Ambient Ideas, LLC

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a US consultancy. Matthew currently is a trainer for GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O'Reilly, speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research center around project automation: build tools (Maven, Leiningen, Gradle), distributed version control (Git), Continuous Integration (Hudson) and Quality Metrics (Sonar). Matthew resides in Denver, Colorado, USA with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado has to offer.

 

Igor Minar Google

Igor Minar is a software engineer at Google. He is a co-lead of the AngularJS project that aims to bring simplicity to the development of client-side web development via declarative markup, data-binding, and APIs with testability baked in. In his previous life, Igor was a hardcore server-side developer at Sun Microsystems specializing in test-driven web development with Java, JavaEE, JRuby and Rails, and responsible for developing wikis.sun.com as well as other developer community webapps.

 

Kumar Muthukumar Taleo

Mr. Muthukumar has been vice president of Production-Performance & Capacity Planning at Taleo for the past six years, where he is responsible for the scalability and overall performance of the applications for the Taleo Enterprise business unit. Prior to joining Taleo, he was director of Performance & Capacity planning at Lawson Software. Mr. Muthukumar also held senior positions in R&D at PeopleSoft and Avolent. Mr. Muthukumar holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta and a Bachelors in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology.

 

Kevin Nilson

Kevin is a Java Champion and speaker at Conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and AjaxWorld. Kevin is the author of Web 2.0 Fundamentals. Kevin is the leader of the Silicon Valley Web Developer Java User Group, Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group and Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup. When not busy working with the community Kevin is a Principal Architect at E*Trade Financial.

 

Vivek Pandey CloudBees

Vivek has fifteen years of experience including the last ten years at Sun Microsystems, working on key Web technologies. Most recently, he was Sun Microsystems' Dynamic Language lead for Glassfish, ensuring enterprise-grade deployment and scalability of languages and frameworks such as Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails, Python/Django, Scala or Lift on Glassfish. Vivek was also a lead engineer in the architecture and development of Sun's Web Services Platform known as JAX-WS, making it one of the best OSS Web Services stacks on the market. He was also a lead developer and committer in various open source projects such as WSIT, Metro, JAX-WS RI, WOM (WSDL ObjectModel), Hudson, JAXB, GlassFish and GlassFish-Scripting. Vivek also owns the GlassFish gem project on RubyForge and has represented Sun in the WS-I Basic Profile and W3C WSDL 2.0 working groups. Vivek lives in the Bay area with his wife and two daughters.

 

Carl Quinn Netflix

Carl Quinn has been developing software professionally for 30 years, starting with BASIC on an Apple II, slogging through C/C++ on DOS, Windows and embedded, and finally landing in the Java on Linux world. The one thread through his career has been an inexplicable attraction to developer tools, spending time building them at Borland (C++ & Java IDEs), Sun (Java RAD), Google (Java & C++ build system) and most recently at Netflix (Java build and deployment automation). Carl also co-hosts the Java Posse podcast, the #1 ranked Java technology podcast.

 

Chris Richardson SpringSource

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com and is a developer advocate for the new Cloud Foundry. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.

 

Kevin Sawicki GitHub

Kevin Sawicki is a developer at GitHub working on Eclipse and Java Git tooling. He has been building Eclipse and version control tooling for the last 5 years at Perforce, Aptana, and IBM using a wide range of frameworks such as Mylyn, GEF, BIRT, and Virgo.

 

Nathaniel Schutta ntschutta.com

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic languages.

 

Andy Schwartz Oracle

Andy Schwartz has been developing JSF-based components and frameworks since the earliest days of JSF 1.0. Over this time Andy has been exposed to everything from the lowest-level internals of the JSF implementations to the day to day concerns of JSF-based application development. In 2007, Andy brought his experience to the JSF 2 specification effort, serving as Oracle's representative to the JSR-314 expert group. Andy is currently one of the architects of ADF Faces, a rich component framework built on top of an Apache MyFaces Trinidad foundation. Andy blogs about JSF and ADF Faces at http://andyschwartz.wordpress.com/

 

Nick Sieger EngineYard

Nick Sieger is an engineer at Engine Yard, working on JRuby and leading the effort to make the Java Virtual Machine a robust yet easy-to-use deployment platform for Rails and Ruby web applications. He created and co-maintains the JDBC adapter for ActiveRecord that JRuby on Rails uses for database connectivity, as well as the Warbler tool and JRuby-Rack library for dealing with Java application server deployment. He maintains a blog on Ruby and JRuby-related topics at http://blog.nicksieger.com/.

 

Fred Simon JFrog

Frederic Simon Co-founder at JFrog – the company behind Artifactory Binary Repository Manager is one of the most appreciated Architects at the Java arena, with a worldwide reputation on this market since 1998. Previous to founding JFrog in 2008, Frederic founded AlphaCSP in 1998 where he posts as the company's global CTO. With 5 branches worldwide and over 300 employees – Frederic built one of the leading Java Company in Europe. In addition to Artifactory, and as part of the open source community, Frederic founded the realistic sky rendering stellarium4Java and the Java 7 playground project kijaro where he implemented the "abstract enum" language change. Frederic is a JavaOne, Devoxx, TSS and Oracle/Sun speaker. Mr. Simon graduated l"Ecole Centralle de Lille” and holds a Computer Science degree.

 

Harpreet Singh CloudBees

Harpreet has 12 years of experience in the software industry in various roles. He came to CloudBees from Oracle where he was a Senior Product Manager in the Application Grid group - he helped onboard GlassFish into Oracle. He was at Sun Microsystems for 10 years in various roles such as Group Product Marketing Manager leading marketing efforts for Java EE 6, GlassFish 3.1 and monetization program for GlassFish Portfolio. He was also the Product Manager for Hudson and launched it as a supported product as part of Sun\'s GlassFish Portfolio. In his prior life, he was an engineer in the Java EE RI, GlassFish teams and was the technical lead for GlassFish 2.1. He has a MS in Computer Science from University of Cincinnati and a MBA from Santa Clara University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and his puppy.

 

Ken Sipe Gradleware

Ken Sipe is the CTO of Gradleware, Inc. (gradleware.com). With the co-founders Hans Dockter and Adam Murdoch, Ken helps companies of all sizes adopt agile practices and automate their enterprise systems enabling faster time to market and higher quality. Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems. Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

 

Brian Sletten Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on using and evangelizing forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a security consultant, a mentor, a team lead, an author and a trainer and operates in all of those roles as needed. His experience has spanned the online game, defense, finance, academic, hospitality, retail and commercial domains. He has worked with a wide variety of technologies such as network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He is President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. and lives in Los Angeles, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.

 

Shaun Smith Oracle

Shaun Smith is an active member of the Eclipse community and a Product Manager for Oracle TopLink. He's Ecosystem Development Lead for the EclipseLink project and a committer on the Eclipse Gemini Enterprise Modules and the Dali Java Persistence Tools projects. Prior to joining Oracle, Shaun was a consultant specializing in enterprise application architecture and agile software development. He's been involved with object persistence since 1996 starting with TopLink for Smalltalk and it's successor TopLink for Java. He's currently working on JPA for NoSQL databases, leveraging EclipseLink JPA and MOXy (JAXB and JSON binding) to accelerate the development of data services for HTML5 applications and Oracle TopLink Grid which supports the scaling out of EclipseLink JPA applications using Oracle Coherence.

 

Daniel Smith Oracle

Daniel Smith is a Java language designer and compiler developer at Oracle. He is a recent addition to the Java language team and has contributed to the Coin and Lambda projects. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University, doing research on type inference in object-oriented languages. He previously worked at LogicBlox, developing a database query language grounded in logic programming.

 

Max Starets Oracle

Max Starets is a software engineer at Oracle, where he has spent the last 14 years working on UI components and frameworks. Max is currently one of the architects of ADF Faces, a JSF-based framework with rich interactive user interface. Max holds am MSE degree from Odessa State Polytechnic University in Ukraine.

 

Blake Sullivan Oracle

Blake Sullivan is an expert in the design of cross-platform user interface frameworks and has served as architect on each of the frameworks used over the last twenty years as Oracle has transitioned from native client-server, to AWT and Swing-based client-server and then rich client AJAX applications. Mr. Sullivan is currently a contributor to the Apache MyFaces Trinidad Java Server Faces (JSF) component project focused on developing core features to improve performance and scalability as well as optimizing the underlying JSF implementations.

 

Tihomir Surdilovic Red Hat

Tihomir Surdilovic is one of the core developers of the Drools and jBPM projects. He was born in Nis, Serbia and received his M.SC. in Computer Science from Georgia State University in 2005 focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interactions. He has a keen interest in the field of Assistive Technology with his past work in this area published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics

 

Alexander von Zitzewitz hello2morrow GmbH

Alexander v. Zitzewitz is founder and managing director of hello2morrow and CEO of the US subsidiary. He has more than 20 years of project and management experience. In 1993 he founded ootec - a company focused on project services around object oriented software technology. This company was sold to the French Valtech group in March 2000 and served customers like Siemens, BMW, Thyssen-Krupp-Stahl and other well known names in German industry. From 2003 to early 2005 he was working as Director of Central Europe for the French company Xcalia S.A. Since the summer of 2008 he is living in Massachusetts. His areas of expertise are object oriented system design and large scale system architecture. Alexander has a degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.

 

Craig Walls SpringSource

Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 16 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a senior engineer with SpringSource and is the author of Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf) and Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 5 birds and 3 dogs.

 

Chris Wensel Concurrent Inc.

Chris Wensel is the founder of Concurrent, Inc., and the author of the Cascading data processing open-source project, an alternative API to MapReduce for Apache Hadoop. He also co-founded Scale Unlimited, the first Hadoop and "Big Data" related professional services and training company, where he mentored and trained companies like Sun Microsystems, Apple, and numerous startups in the Bay Area. Chris bootstrapped his first Internet startup in the early 90's, creating an early Web server-side scripting language used in the real estate and insurance verticals. During the late 90's, Chris focused on distributed-agent based systems where he received several patents on distributed computing. From there he became Chief Architect for the fastest growing business unit at Thomson Reuters. Just prior to Concurrent, Chris was a Consulting Architect to TeleAtlas geo-content management group in Belgium. Chris also advises several startups in the "Big Data" and "Big Audience" technology space.

 

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