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 helps Java Engineers build frameworks and libraries that are easy to evolve and upgrade so they can stay up-to-date with technology and work on great projects. Since 2014, he maintains, improves and supports an internal Java framework at the Brazilian bank Banrisul. The framework is used by several company systems.

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 is a software engineer living in Guatemala City. Java Champion, OAS scholarships alumni, holder of a Msc. degree in Computer Science, OCA, OCP Java certifications and current CTO of Nabenik, with 10 years of experience in the Java Enterprise sector as college professor, developer and software architect.

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.

I started my professional life looking for an academic career, which led me to a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Mathematics. Once I finished my master's degree, the practical knowledge urge was higher than the theoretical one, so I decided to change and start a career in the industrial field. That eventually led me to work as a Software Developer.

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).

Otávio is a passionate software engineer focused on Java technology. He has experience mainly in persistence polyglot and high-performance applications in finances, social media, and e-commerce. Otavio is a member of both Expert Groups and Expert Leader in several JSRs and JCP executive committee. He is working on several Apache and Eclipse Foundation projects such as Apache Tamaya, Eclipse JNoSQL, Eclipse MicroProfile, JakartaEE. A JUG leader and global speaker at JavaOne and Devoxx conferences. Otavio has received recognition for his OSS contributions such as the JCP Outstanding Award, Member of the year and innovative JSR, Duke?s Choice Award, and Java Champion Award, to name a few.

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.