Brian Benz
Brian is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, helping developers get the most out of Azure. Before Joining Microsoft, he was a solution architect, consultant, developer, author and presenter at IBM, Deloitte, and other companies. Find him on Twitter @bbenz.
Other Speakers
Mário Júnior
Just another 27 Years old developer that was lucky to learn Java when he was desperate for something more powerful and less magic than VB6. It’s been a long journey since My Pascal times, back in 2008. Not as long as you’d think. But I’m proud of it anyway, cause it led me to the present days. I’m a developer actively looking for ways to write more meaningful code and consistently questioning the way I do things. Would it be redundant to say I’m passionate about Java? Probably. I’m one of those guys that won’t just sit and wait for someone to do something I desperately need. Been cooking some monsters of my own which can be found in my Gitlab profile https://gitlab.com/users/talk-code/. I have very recently embarked in the Role of Software development management, not cause I’m done coding, but cause I felt like it would be nice for developers to have someone that understands their job enough to care and help them improve instead of just seeing them as feature makers.
Other Speakers
Eddy Kioi
Local Celebrity | Twitter-Arm-Chair Expert | Opensource Enthusiast | Cloud Architect
Other Speakers
Sharat Chander
Sharat Chander has worked in the IT industry for 20 years for firms including Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. His background and technical specialty is in Java development tools, graphics design, and product/community management. Sharat has been actively involved in the Java community for 19 years in helping drive greater Java awareness, acceptance, adoption, and advocacy. As Oracle’s director of Java Product Management and Developer Engagement, Sharat has led advocacy efforts that have improved and increased community participation and enterprise usage of Java. He is a frequent keynote speaker and participant in developer programs worldwide. Sharat holds a BS in corporate finance from the University of Maryland and an MBA in international business from Loyola College, Maryland. You can often find Sharat at global developer events and Java community engagements. When not growing visibility for Java, he follows his passion for baseball, actively coaching Little League baseball teams and fanatically following his hometown Baltimore Orioles. You can find Sharat at multiple global developer events, as well as follow him on Twitter: @Sharat_Chander
Other Speakers
Naresha K
I help developers and teams to deliver sustainable business value through technical excellence. I have spent a decade as a developer and lead developer across enterprises and startups. In the last three years, my focus has been to help developers to unleash their potential and get better at their craft.
Other Speakers
Heather VanCura
Heather leads the Java Community standardization efforts at Oracle, and is a leader of the global community driven adoption Java User Group outreach programs. She is the Director and Chairperson of the Java Community Process (JCP) program. In this role she drives the efforts to transform the JCP program and broaden participation and diversity in the community. She is passionate about Java, women in technology and developer communities, serving as an International speaker and community organizer of developer hack days around the world. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, California USA and enjoys trying new sports and fitness activities in her free time.
Other Speakers
Corneil du Plessis
I have earned a living by programming since 1985 and have worked on very small embedded systems as well as large mainframe systems and everything in between. I have used a wide variety of programming languages and technologies to solve problems across very different domains. Recently mostly on the JVM in financial services. I am passionate about developer productivity and have a severe allergic reaction to bureaucracy.
Other Speakers
Mary Grygleski
Mary is currently a Java Developer Advocate at IBM, specializing in Reactive Java systems. She started working as a software engineer with C and Unix, then got into Java, Open Source, and web development in the new Millennium, and now she is venturing into Reactive, Mobile, and the DevOps space. In her previous incarnations, she worked for several technology product companies in the Route 128 Boston Technology Corridor as well the San Francisco Bay Area. She now resides in the Greater Chicago area, and is an Executive Board member and the Director of Meetings for the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG). She is also an active co-organizers for the Big Data Developers in Chicago, Chicago Cloud, and IBM Cloud Chicago meetup groups. Mary continues to be amazed by how software innovations can dramatically transform our lives. Despite the many challenges in an ever-evolving technical world, she gets energized by the constant change and believes that she has uncovered the pathway to stay young. She can’t wait to see what the next tech wave will be like.