Matthew McCullough

Matthew is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, world-traveling open source educator, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a US consultancy. Matthew currently is the director of training at 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, including the Git RefCard, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group.

Jaroslav Tulach

Jaroslav Tulach is the founder and initial architect of NetBeans, which is not just a well known IDE, but also the first modular desktop application framework written in Java. Maintaining NetBeans Platform, its architecture and APIs has always been the primary focus of Jaroslav. During more than fifteen years of participating in the NetBeans.org project, Jaroslav has seen, made and helped to recover from many design mistakes. Such experience obligated Jaroslav to sit down and summarize in his Practical API Book. The GeekOut tutorial is going to be based on Jaroslav’s recent experience with making NetBeansAPIs better with the help of compile time annotations.

Kirk Pepperdine

Kirk has been working in high performance and distributed computing for nearly 20 years. His focus has primarily been on performance, working on architecting, developing, and tuning applications running on Cray and other high performance computing platforms.

Kirk now specializes in Java™, where he works in all aspects of performance and tuning in each phase of a project life cycle. Author, speaker, consultant, Kirk was recognized as a 2006 Java Champion recipient for his contributions to the Java community.

Joonas Lehtinen

Joonas Lehtinen, PhD, is one of the core developers of Vaadin, a Java-based framework for building business-oriented Rich Internet Applications. Joonas has been developing applications for the web since 1995 with a strong focus on Ajax and Java. He is the founder and CEO of the company behind the Vaadin framework.

Mike Keith

Mike Keith has been an object-oriented programming, distributed systems and persistence expert for over 20 years. He is an enterprise Java and middleware architect at Oracle and has contributed to the last 3 versions of Java EE. He is also the project lead for the Eclipse Gemini project that produces reusable enterprise modules supporting Java EE technology-based applications.

Oleg Anastasyev

Oleg Anastasyev started his career in computer programming in 1995. He developed banking, telecom, public transportation software as well as software for the government of Latvia. He is a leading developer at Odnoklassniki.ru since 2007. His primary responsibilities as a Platform Team member are development of architectures and solutions for highly loaded as well as big data services, solving performance and availability problems, mentoring other Odnoklassniki.ru developers.

Jevgeni Kabanov

Jevgeni Kabanov is the founder and CEO of ZeroTurnaround, a development tools company that focuses on productivity. As part of the effort to reduce development time tunraround, he wrote the prototype of the ZeroTurnaround flagship product, JRebel, a class reloading JVM plugin. Jevgeni has been speaking at international conferences for over 5 years, including TheServerSide Java Symposium, JavaPolis/Devoxx, JavaZone, JAOO, QCon, JFokus and others. He also has an active research interest in programming languages, types and virtual machines, publishing several papers on topics ranging from category theoretical notions to typesafe Java DSLs.

Michael Hunger

Michael Hunger has been passionate about soſtware development for a long time. He is particularly interested in the people who develop soſtware, soſtware craſtsmanship, programming languages, and improving code.

For the last two years he has been working with Neo Technology on the Neo4j graph database. As the project lead of Spring Data Neo4j he helped developing the idea to become a convenient and complete solution for object graph mapping. He is also taking care of Neo4j cloud hosting efforts.
Good relationships are everywhere in Michael’s life. His “real” life concerns his family and children, running his coffee shop and co-working-space “die-buchbar“, living in the depths of a text-based multi-user dungeon, tinkering with and without Lego® and muchmore.

As a developer he loves to work with many aspects of programming languages, learning new things every day, participating in exciting and ambitious open source projects and contributing to different programming related books. Michael is also an active editor and interviewer at InfoQ.

Ken Sipe

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.

Edward Burns

Ed Burns is a Consulting Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle America, Inc. and has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the spec lead for JavaServer Faces, a topic on which Ed recently co-authored a book for McGraw Hill. Ed is an experienced international conference speaker, with consistently high attendence numbers and ratings at JavaOne, JAOO, JAX, W-JAX, No Fluff Just Stuff, JA-SIG, The Ajax Experience, and Java and Linux User Groups.

Hans Dockter

Hans has 13 years of experience as a software developer, team leader, architect, trainer, and technical mentor. Hans is a thought leader in the field of project automation and has successfully been in charge of numerous large-scale enterprise builds. He is also an advocate of Domain Driven Design, having taught classes and delivered presentations on this topic together with Eric Evans. In the earlier days, Hans was also a committer for the JBoss project and founded the JBoss-IDE.