Speakers
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Bruno Borges
Nacho Cougil
Principal Software Engineer at Dynatrace | Java Champion
Nacho es un ingeniero de software de Barcelona, fan de las prácticas de eXtreme Programming (XP) que ha estado trabajando con Java y otras tecnologías web desde antes del efecto 2000. Tiene experiencia en diferentes roles en el mundo de las TIC ("chico-para-todo" 😅, desarrollador, lider de equipo y CTO) trabajando en empresas de muchos sectores: energía, comercio electrónico, startups (algún unicornio 🦄) y consultoría tecnológica. Ahora trabaja como Ingeniero Principal de Software en Dynatrace desarrollando software para monitorizar otras aplicaciones y en 2022 nombrado convirtió en Java Champion.
Siempre preocupado con preguntas como "¿Cómo funciona?" y "¿Cómo podemos hacerlo mejor?", a Nacho le encanta compartir sus conocimientos con los demás y al mismo tiempo aprender de los demás. Como progresión natural de esta actitud, fundó el Grupo de Usuarios Java de Barcelona ( https://www.barcelonajug.org ) y co-fundó la Barcelona Developers Conference, DevBcn ( https://www.devbcn.com ), antigua Java and JVM Barcelona Conference ( JBCNConf ).
Cuando no está pensando en la próxima cosa interesante que hacer para la comunidad, le gusta pasar tiempo con su familia, hacer deporte o mejorar su TDD y otras habilidades XP.
Holly Cummins
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team. Before joining Red Hat, Holly was a long time IBMer, in a range of roles from cloud consultant, full-stack javascript developer, WebSphere Liberty devops architect, JVM performance engineer, to innovation leader. Holly led projects for enormous banks, tiny startups, and everything in between. Holly has used the power of cloud to understand climate risks, count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, and invent stories (although not at all the same time). Holly is also a Java Champion, author, and regular keynote speaker. You can follow her on twitter at @holly_cummins or at hollycummins.com.
Eric Deandrea
Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Eric Deandrea is a Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on application development technologies. Eric has over 25 years of experience designing and building Java-based solutions and developer training programs. He is a contributor to various OSS projects, including Quarkus, Spring, LangChain4j, WireMock, and Microcks, as well as a speaker at many public events and user groups around the world. Eric recently put his Quarkus and Spring knowledge to use by publishing his first book, “Quarkus for Spring Developers (https://red.ht/quarkus-spring-devs).” Outside of work, Eric enjoys boating on the lakes of New Hampshire, ice hockey, and martial arts, in which he holds a black belt in Kempo Karate.
Rafael del Nero
Java Champion
Rafael Del Nero is a Java Champion, creator of NoBugsProject and quiz master in Oracle Dev Gym, is the author of "No Bugs, No Stress - Create a Life-Changing Software Without Destroying Your Life." Rafael believes there are many techniques involved in creating high-quality software that developers are often unaware of. His life's purpose is to help Java developers use better programming practices to code quality software for stress-free projects with fewer bugs.
Frank Delporte
Java Champion - Author of 'Getting started with Java on the Raspberry Pi' - Senior Technical Writer at Azul
Frank Delporte is a Java Champion working at azul.com, blogger on webtechie.be and foojay.io, author of "Getting started with Java on the Raspberry Pi" (webtechie.be/books), and contributor to pi4j.com. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.
Oliver Drotbohm
Member of the Spring Engineering Team @ VMware by Broadcom
Oliver Drotbohm is a member of the Spring engineering team at VMware by Broadcom, Inc.. His work focused on software architecture, DDD, REST, and persistence technologies. His new book, “Modulithic Applications with Spring”, is due to release in 2024.
Kevin Dubois
Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat
Kevin is a Java Champion, software engineer, author and international speaker with a passion for Open Source, Java, and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat where he gets to enjoy working with Open Source projects and improving the developer experience. He previously worked as a (lead) software engineer at a variety of organizations across the world ranging from small startups to large enterprises and even government agencies.
Kevin is actively involved in Open Source communities, contributing to projects such as Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel, and Podman (Desktop). He is also a member of the Belgian CNCF and the Belgian Java User Group.
Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French and Italian fluently and is currently based in Belgium, having lived in Italy and the USA as well.
In his free time you can find Kevin somewhere in the wild hiking, gravel biking, snowboarding or packrafting.
Hanno Embregts
Java Developer by day, musician by night. A bit of both at conferences.
Hanno Embregts is a Java Developer with a passion for learning, teaching and making music.
In his day-to-day job as an IT Consultant at Info Support, Hanno prefers work that is fast-paced and versatile. This is why he juggles Java development, software architecture, public speaking, leading Info Support’s Java Community and teaching courses at Info Support’s Knowledge Centre.
Hanno is both a Java Champion and an Oracle ACE Pro. He is also one of the editors of the Dutch Java Magazine. Outside of work Hanno likes making music with his friends. He plays the flute, the guitar and he likes to sing.
Software conferences are Hanno’s favourite thing in the world, because they allow him to do the three things he loves most at the same time: learning new things, teaching others about stuff he discovered and yes: even making music from time to time!
Kenneth Fogel
Java Champion, Author, Conference Speaker, Research Scholar in Residence at Dawson College
Ken retired from the classroom after 31 years teaching software development at Dawson College, 25 of those years as the chair and program coordinator of the Computer Science Technology Program. He is currently a Research Scholar in Residence at the college. His first book, Transitioning to Java, was recently published by Packt. He has spoken and continues to speak at numerous conferences around the world.
Mario Fusco
Loiane Groner
Java Champion, Angular GDE, Microsoft MVP, Oracle ACE and and Engineering Director
Loiane Groner is a Java Champion, Angular GDE, Microsoft MVP, Oracle ACE with over 18 years of experience and a Director at BNY. In her spare time, she loves contributing to the community, and she publishes tech videos on Youtube and creates free programming courses at https://loiane.training.
Cay Horstmann
Author of Core Java, Scala for the Impatient, and many other books.
After growing up in the German countryside, I studied in the United States (M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor). For four years, I was VP and CTO of an Internet startup that went from 3 people in a tiny office to a public company. I taught computer science at San Jose State University and held visiting appointments at universities in Germany, Switzerland, Vietnam, and Macau. In my copious spare time I write books and articles on programming languages and computer science education.
Kenneth Kousen
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
Ken Kousen is the author of the Pragmatic Programmers books "Mockito Made Clear" and "Help Your Boss Help You", the O'Reilly books "Kotlin Cookbook", "Modern Java Recipes", and "Gradle Recipes for Android", and the Manning book "Making Java Groovy". He is a regular speaker on the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference tour, and has spoken at conferences all over the world. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne Rock Star, and a Devnexus Rock Star. Currently he a Professor of the Practice of Computer Science and Associate Director for STEM Initiatives at the Entrepreneurship Center at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
In addition to various industry certifications, he has BS degrees in both Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I.
Peter Lawrey
Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate, Pivotal
Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 5 books (including O'Reilly's upcoming Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry) and 3 best-selling video trainings (including Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin). He is a huge Kotlin-fan, too.
Evgeny Mandrikov
Software Gardener, Principal Software Engineer at Sonar
Evgeny is a contributor to various open source projects, including OpenJDK, and a speaker at international conferences and JUGs. He is also one of the project leads of widely adopted code coverage library for Java and Kotlin - JaCoCo, and the award-winning EclEmma project at the Eclipse Foundation that integrates JaCoCo into Eclipse. In his day job at Sonar he develops SonarQube’s static source code analysis for languages such as Java, Kotlin, C, and C++.
Simon Martinelli
Programming Architect
Simon Martinelli is a Java Champion, a Vaadin Champion, and an Oracle ACE Pro. He regularly shares his knowledge in articles, speaks at international conferences, and writes his blog: https://martinelli.ch. His current interest is increasing the efficiency of full-stack development with Java.
He owns Martinelli LLC and has worked as a software architect, developer, consultant, and trainer for three decades, especially in the Java Enterprise environment. In addition to his work, he is a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH and the University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland FHNW on modern architecture and integrating distributed systems, persistence technologies, and DevOps.
Daniel Oh
Senior Principal Developer Advocate
Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat to evangelize developers for building cloud-native apps and serverless ob Kubernetes ecosystems. He's also contributing to various cloud open-source projects and ecosystems as a CNCF ambassador for accelerating DevOps adoption in enterprises. He's speaking at lots of technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers & DevOps teams.
Bazlur Rahman
Java Champion 🏆 Empowering Developers through Speaking 🗣️ Writing ✍️ Mentoring 🤝 & Community Building 🌍 Published Author 📖 Contributing Editor at InfoQ and Foojay.IO
A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Software Engineer with over a decade of specialized experience in Java and related technologies. His expertise has been formally recognized through the prestigious title of Java Champion. Beyond his professional commitments, Mr. Rahman is deeply involved in community outreach and education. He is the founder and current moderator of the Java User Group in Bangladesh, where he has organized educational meetups and conferences since 2013.
In the past two years, Mr. Rahman has been an active speaker at various international conferences and Java user groups. His talks have often focused on specialized topics such as concurrency and virtual threads. In addition to his community work, Mr. Rahman also serves as an editor for Java Queue at InfoQ and Foojay.io, both of which are leading platforms for technology content. Notably, he has authored five books on the Java programming language in Bengali, three of which have become best sellers in Bangladesh.
He is currently writing a new book with O'Reilly titled "Modern Concurrency in Java".
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/modern-concurrency-in/9781098165406/
Michael Redlich
Java Champion | Director at Garden State JUG | Lead Java Editor at InfoQ Java | Contract Developer Advocate and Technical Writer at Payara
Michael Redlich has been an active member within the Java community for the past 25 years. He founded the Garden State Java User Group (formerly the ACGNJ Java Users Group) in 2001 where he serves as one of the directors. Since 2016, Mike has served as a Java community news editor for InfoQ where his contributions include the weekly Java news roundup, news items, technical articles and technical reviews from external authors. He is currently the lead Java Queue editor. Mike joined Payara as a contract Developer Advocate and Technical Writer in the summer of 2023.
He has presented at venues such as Devnexus, Oracle Code One, JCON World, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, Trenton Computer Festival (TCF), TCF IT Professional Conference, and numerous Java User Groups. Mike serves as a committer on the Jakarta NoSQL and Jakarta Data specifications and the Eclipse JNoSQL project. He also participates on the leadership council of the Jakarta EE Ambassadors. Mike was named a Java Champion in April 2023.
Mike retired from ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering in June 2023 with 33½ years of service. His experience included developing custom scientific laboratory and web applications, polymer physics, chemometrics, infrared spectroscopy and automotive testing. He also has experience as a Technical Support Engineer at Ai-Logix, Inc. (now AudioCodes) where he provided technical support and developed telephony applications for customers.
Sven Reimers
Java Champion
Sven Reimers is an industrial engineer with over 25 years of experience in designing and implementing distributed systems which have a focus in the engineering domain. He was the lead software architect for a system and network management solution for satellite communication networks, which received the Duke'c Choice award. He currently works on ground segment software for earth observation satellite systems. He is author of several scientific articles, co-author of some Java community driven books and was a long term member of the program committee of the JavaOne conference. He was chosen a Java Champion by his peers. In addition he is the founder of the JUG Bodensee, a member of the openjdk community, member of the Apache NetBeans PMC and lead of TweetWallFX and JTaccuino opensource projects. Currently, he works as an eXpert for functional chain software architecture for earth observation systems at Airbus Defence and Space.
Syed Shaaf
Java + LLMs: A hands-on guide to building LLM Apps in Java with Jakarta
Shaaf is a Principal Architect at Red Hat. A contributor to Konveyor community a CNCF Sandbox project.
Mostly developing code with Java, Node and recently AI/ML. For the last 15 years, he has helped customers create and adopt open source solutions for applications, cloud and managed service, continuous integration environments, and frameworks. Shaaf is a technical editor at InfoQ and spends his time writing about Kubernetes, Security and Java
Bruno Souza
Helping developers design amazing careers
Since 1995, Bruno helps Java developers design amazing careers and work on cool projects with great people! Java Evangelist and a Java Champion, Bruno is the founder and President of SouJava, the Brazilian Java Users Society. He also represents the group on the JCP Executive Committee. Bruno discusses Java and the Developer Career in the https://code4.life/ project.
Mohamed Taman
Chief Solutions Architect @Magna International, a Java Champion, Oracle ACE Alumni, JCP member , Consultant, Speaker & Author.
Adopts Java SE.next(), JakartaEE.next(), a JCP member, was a JCP Executive Committee member, JSR 354, 363 & 377 Expert Group member, EGJUG leader, Oracle Egypt Architects Club board member, speaks Java, loves Mobile, Big Data, Cloud, Blockchain, and DevOps.
An International speaker, book and video author of “JavaFX essentials,” “Getting Started with Clean Code, Java SE 9”, and “Hands-On Java 10 Programming with JShell”, And I won Duke’s Choice 2015, 2014, and 2013 awards, and JCP Outstanding Adopt-a-Jar Participant 2013 awards.
