Authors

Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte) is a Java developer, blogger, author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and contributor to Pi4J. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.

Geertjan is Senior Director of Open Source Projects at Azul and Apache NetBeans PMC Chair.

Technology writer and software engineer focused on high-performance low-latency big-data Java, Python, C/C++ programming.

Reza Rahman is Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure at Microsoft. He works to make sure Java developers are first class citizens at Microsoft and Microsoft is a first class citizen of the Java ecosystem.

Entrepreneur and Java software developer, founder and CEO of IDRsolutions

Digital Marketing Coordinator working for Payara who has been involved in the Java space since 2017. Very much enjoys collaborating on projects and events with other individuals and organisations. Including Marketing committee activities for Jakarta EE and MicroProfile.

Developer Advocate and Software Engineer for Snyk. Passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming, and Cybersecurity. Co-leading the Virtual JUG, Utrecht JUG and DevSecCon community. Brian is also an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and regular international speaker on mostly Java-related conferences

Deputy CTO at Azul Systems

Helen is a Java Developer Advocate at JetBrains. She has over 20 years’ experience in the software industry which has been gained in a variety of roles including developer, technical writer, product owner, and advocacy.

Marcus is the project lead for the Open JDK JMC project. Once upon a time he co-founded Appeal, the company creating the JRockit JVM.

Bruno Lowagie is the original developer of iText, an open source PDF library. Currently, he's helping tech startups, making them investor-ready.

Brice Dutheil is a software engineer, aficionado of open source software. Previously a Mockito core contributor, now a Dad of 2.

Gunnar Morling is a software engineer and open-source enthusiast at heart. He leads the Debezium project, a platform for change data capture (CDC). He is a Java Champion, the spec lead for Bean Validation 2.0 (JSR 380), and has founded multiple open source projects, such as Deptective and MapStruct. He's based in Hamburg, Germany.

German Freelancer Java, Spring Boot, JUnit Jupiter, Apache Maven PMC Member @ASFMavenProject, Apache Software Foundation Member @TheASF, Mojo Haus Member, Java Developer, CI / CD Fan.

Johannes Weigend is a computer scientist, software architect and technical director of QAware Germany. He works as a lecturer at the Technical University of Rosenheim and gives lectures on distributed computing, modern programming languages and graphical user interfaces. Find him on Twitter @JohannesWeigend.

Web Developer, Java Champion, and Developer Advocate at Okta

Carl Dea is a JavaFX enthusiast working in the field of Geo Spatial at Captivation Software as a software engineer using the following technologies: Server stack: OpenStack, VMWare, Linux, Docker, Splunk, NodeJS, JBoss, Redis, ActiveMQ, and Oracle. Languages: Java, C/C++, Python, and JavaScript(ES6).
Web client/server frameworks: ReactJS, Leaftlet, ArcGis, Bootstrap, BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, SpringBoot, Micronaut, QuarkusIO.

Mohamed Taman (@_tamanm) is CEO/Owner at SiriusX Innovations, Chief Architect, Java Champion, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, Jakarta EE Ambassador, JCP, Technology Geek, International Speaker, and Author.

Anton is a consultant worldwide for a wide variety of companies, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, in many areas, including finance institutions, automotive and aerospace. In 2013 he joined the Java Champions and received a JavaONE Rockstar Award. In 2014 he received a Duke's Choice Award for his work on DukeScript. He’s an Apache committer for the NetBeans project. In 2019 he cofounded Smart Access Solutions a company focused on cloud based access right management.

Erik Costlow was Oracle’s principal product manager for Java 8 and 9, focused on security and performance. His security expertise involves threat modeling, code analysis, and instrumentation of security sensors. He is working to broaden this approach to security with Contrast Security. Before becoming involved in technology, Erik was a circus performer who juggled fire on a three-wheel vertical unicycle.

I help professional Java developers to learn language features so they can work on the best Java projects, software developer, speaker, OpenJDK contributor.

Josh Juneau is an application developer, database administrator, technical writer, and Java evangelist.

Sr. Software Engineer at Azul

Ray Tsang is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and a Java Champion. Ray works with engineering and product teams to improve Java developer productivity on the GCP.

Java Developer since 2011, Pittsburgh JUG leader, Committer at Eclipse Collections Java Library.

Jean-Philippe Bempel is a Senior Software Engineer at Datadog.

Alexander Reelsen is a Developer & Advocate, Dad, works since 2013 distributed at Elastic, is interested in search, scale, JVM, crystallang, serverless and Basketball.

Artificial intelligence software developer, entrepreneur, Java Champion, and researcher. Creator of the most popular and award winning educational Java open source neural network software—Neuroph.