TDC CONNECTIONS
Building Software in the Connected World

Software architect and developer, agilist, rock climber. Giovanni is founder and Chief Software Architect of Lambda3 in Brazil. He is passionate about software development, and he believes self managed teams are more efficient and productive than outside managed ones. He was awarded as a Microsoft MVP more than ten years ago, and has 20+ years or experience developing software. He has spoken around the world on conferences, user groups and online about .NET, microservices, JavaScript, Ruby, Node.js, frontend and backend development, agile development and many other topics. He leads some user groups in Brazil on topics such as .NET, and Docker.

Mary is a Senior Developer Advocate and Software Engineer primarily in the Java and Open Source areas at IBM. She transitioned from Unix/C to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. She considers herself as a polyglot and loves to continue learning new and better ways of solving real-life problems. She is an active tech community organizer outside of her day job, and currently the president of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG).

I have been working with software for over 10 years, for private companies and public service.

None of my achievements was made alone and I am happy to have the chance to meet incredible people, who constantly help me to improve and solve ever greater challenges.

This led me to design solutions from governmental web portals, to search engine based solutions, distributed computation and give life to streams of data.

The concern always made me look for new platforms and frameworks, bringing innovation into my works, I have great expertise in Solr, Elasticsearch, RabbitMq, Lucene and several other technologies and I will be pleased to discuss it more.

Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. She is Liberty Cloud Native Architect and Chief Advocate, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) @IBM, based at Hursley Lab in the UK. Emily is MicroProfile guru and has been working on MicroProfile since 2016 and leads the specifications of MicroProfile Config, Fault Tolerance and Service Mesh. She is a CDI Expert Group member.

She is passionate about Java, MicroProfile, and Jakarta EE. She regularly speaks at conferences, such as QCon, Code One, Devoxx, DevNexus, JAX, Voxxed, EclipseCon, GeeCon, JFokus, etc. You can find her on Twitter @emilyfhjiang and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyfhjiang/).

I'm Senior Software Engineer helping companies achieve their results using cloud-native software. In the last few years, I've been digging into the world of developing applications using the microservices architecture which is causing a lot of stress and happiness to me. From Rio to Fortaleza to Vancouver to Toronto I'm always looking for challenges and ways to help teams to keep everything simple even in a chaotic scenario.

I have over 15 years of experience working in the IT industry. Currently, I work as a Software Architect at Eldorado Research Institute, working on innovating projects in Distributed Systems and Data Science; also, I am a Ph.D. student in Biotechnology Brasilia Catholic University with a specialization in Bioinformatics.

Previously, I worked for private companies and public service, designing solutions from the house and building automation to transparency web portals for Tocantins government state.

Gunnar Morling is a software engineer and open-source enthusiast by heart. He is leading 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. Prior to joining Red Hat, Gunnar worked on a wide range of Java EE projects in the logistics and retail industries. He's based in Hamburg, Germany.

Hans-Peter (@hpgrahsl) is a technical trainer at NETCONOMY. As an independent engineer and consultant he helps customers to build cloud-based or on-premises data architectures using modern technology stacks and NoSQL data stores. He is also an associate lecturer for Software Engineering at CAMPUS 02 and is speaking at tech-related and developer conferences. For his code contributions, conference talks and blog post writing at the intersection of the Apache Kafka and MongoDB ecosystems, Hans-Peter received the Confluent Community Catalyst award twice and became one of the founding members of the MongoDB Champions Program.

Software Architect in Farmacias Peruanas from 2018. PERU JUG Leader from 2003. Duke Choice Awards Winner in 2017 Java Champion from 2018.

Maciej is an independent software engineer at OpenEnterprise. Since 2007 he is in business automation and workflow domain both from development point of view and helping to adopt business automation in different sectors. The last several years he spent at building and running workflows at scale utilising various cloud native solutions e.g. Kubernetes, KNative. He's passionate about open source and tries to promote it wherever possible. He is also a creator of open source project Automatiko (https://autmatiko.io) that aims at building services and functions based on workflows. In his spare time he enjoys calm and relax life on country side and travels.

Roberto Cortez is a passionate Java Developer with more than 10 years of experience. He is involved within the Open Source Community to help other individuals spread the knowledge about Java technologies. He is a regular speaker at conferences like JavaOne, Devoxx, Devnexus, JFokus and others. He leads the Coimbra JUG and founded the JNation Conference in Portugal. When he is not working, he hangs out with friends, plays computer games and spends time with family.