TDC CONNECTIONS
Building Software in the Connected World

I help junior software Developers improve their coding & collaboration skills to meet great people & work on amazing projects.

I have more than 8 years of experience coding in Java, including numerous academic, professional, and personal projects. In addition to my regular work, I also mentor, write and contribute to the open-source project. I am the founder and current moderator of a Java user group in Bangladesh, where I organize technical sessions and share Java-related knowledge with the community. I authored four books about the Java programming language; one was on the bestseller list in Bangladesh.

Helber é um engenheiro de software e contribuidor open source com foco em Java, Go e Kubernetes, atualmente trabalhando na Red Hat no time do OpenShift AI. Ele se dedica a aprimorar o OpenShift AI através de contribuições para o Kubeflow e Open Data Hub, com foco em pipelines para Data Science/Machine Learning. No tempo livre, atua como maintainer da extensão Quarkus OpenAPI Generator.

María Arias de Reyna is a Java Champion, geospatial enthusiast and FLOSS advocator. She has been a community leader and core maintainer of several free and open source projects since 2004. She is currently working at Red Hat where she focuses on Integrations and maintains Apache Camel related projects. María is an experienced keynoter and speaker. Between 2017 and 2019 María was the elected President of OSGeo, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation which serves as an umbrella for the most used geospatial free and open source software. She is also well known as a feminist and Women In Tech activist.

Formado em Sistemas de Informação na UNISINOS, Co-fundador da Menvia, uma startup baseada em computação de contexto e atua como desenvolvedor e coach senior de design thinking no SAP Labs Latin America, porém já foi de tudo um pouco,de desenhista técnico a quase formado em química (queria ser um ciêntista maluco). É dessa vasta experiência em vários campos que vem uma forte formação interdisciplinar e paixão por inovação e empreendedorismo e o mais importante o compartilhamento de conhecimento e experiências. Já participou de diversos eventos como FISL (Palestrante), TDC (Palestrante e Workshop de DT), Encontro de Ubiquidade Tecnológica e muitos outros.

Michael é desenvolvedor com 19 anos de experiência na plataforma Java, além de programador há 25 anos. É Java Champion, committer do OpenJDK e membro do SouJava, além de co-líder da JSR-310 (Date & Time API) e expert em outras sete JSRs, incluindo a do Java SE 6. Hoje é CEO da Improving, empresa de consultoria, desenvolvimento e recrutamento em TI

Víctor Orozco is a Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, Oracle Java Certified Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, and most importantly, a professor who likes to develop software or maybe a developer who likes academia.

He has 15+ years of experience working in telecom, banking, and the enterprise sectors with companies from Latin America, Europe, and USA.

Developer (Architect), Consultant, Trainer (https://airhacks.io), Podcaster (https://airhacks.fm) and Java enthusiast Adam Bien (https://adambien.blog) uses Java since JDK 1.0 and JavaScript since LiveScript and still enjoys writing code. Adam regularly organizes Java / Web / Architectures online live workshops https://airhacks.live and monthly Q&A live streaming show: https://airhacks.tv.

I started my journey with a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Psychology, mainly to study human behavior. While I was a graduate student, I started studying R, for statistical analysis, and Python, for fun. Now, I work with software development and strive to bring changes to society through technology.

Daniane is a Java lover, Spring enthusiast, Brazilian expat. She has been working as a developer for 17+ years in countries such as Brazil, Australia, Portugal and currently The Netherlands. She worked with different technologies and currently her focus is on Cloud Native applications with Spring Framework .

Java Champion, Organiser at BarcelonaJUG and cofounder of the JBCNConf conference in Barcelona. Working at Red Hat as Senior Software Engineer on the Middleware area, but I have worked as a (paid) developer since the first release of The Secret of Monkey Island, about 30 years ago. PMP certified by the PMI in Project Management. Very interested in simulated reality, psychology and Java along with management technologies.

Lilian is a Brazilian Software Engineer by heart and a Mathematician by education. She has experience helping to build, test, document, maintain, and deploy, to the cloud, more than 10 micro-services, with 3 different programming languages (Java, Python, and JavaScript), different data storage, architectures, and communication patterns. She has experience with different-sized companies and agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban). Meanwhile, she follows her motto "always hungry for food and knowledge" and advocates for Software Craftsmanship.

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).

Empowering staff-plus engineers to deliver highly scalable software on the cloud, so they can become influential in their companies and in the market, and move their technical careers to the next level.

Otavio is a passionate architect and software engineer focused on cloud and Java technologies. He has deep expertise in polyglot persistence, and high-performance applications in the areas of finance, social media, and e-commerce.

As an open-source contributor, Otavio is directly involved in the Java world as an expert leader in several specifications both at the Java Community Process (JCP) and at the Eclipse Foundation. His work on the Apache and Eclipse Foundations helps projects such as MicroProfile and Jakarta EE to flourish.

Vipin helps professional Java developers to learn language features so they can work on the best Java projects. Vipin is a senior Java developer and OpenJDK contributor.

Vipin is a senior developer at MSCI, and for more than 13 years he has worked on large Java projects in the Financial Sector.

On his blog, http://jfeatures.com Vipin shares his insights on Java Language Features and the evolution of the JVM.

Software Engineer for more than 10 years, started developing at 13 yo creating mods and scripts for online games, Functional Programming enthusiast and Tech Lead at ABN Amro Bank N.V in the Netherlands.