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TECHNOLOGY CREATING TOMORROW

Grace is a Developer Advocate at IBM, working with Open Liberty, MicroProfile and Cloud Technologies. She has been with IBM since graduating from Exeter University with a Degree in Biology. Grace enjoys bringing a varied perspective to her projects and using her knowledge of biological systems to simplify complex software patterns and architectures. As a developer advocate, Grace builds POC?s, demos and sample applications, and writes guides and tutorials. She is a regular presenter at international technology conferences and has recently authored a book on reactive systems. Grace also has a keen passion for encouraging more women into STEM and especially Technology careers.

Helber ajuda desenvolvedores Java profissionais a escreverem código fácil de manter para eles conseguirem evoluir seu software e se manterem atualizados com a tecnologia. Apaixonado por Java e Open Source, tem trabalhado desenvolvendo frameworks desde 2014. Atualmente trabalha como Software Engineer na Red Hat, contribuindo para os projetos open source Kogito (https://kogito.kie.org) e CNCF Serverless Workflow (https://serverlessworkflow.io/).

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

I´m an Enterprise Technical Architecture Senior Diretor at Avanade Brazil where I work on Modern Applications for large companies. I also worked as Innovation and Technonology Manager in Sofisa Direto, where I was responsible for the whole technology division of the digital bank. I was the CTO of a B2B focused startup, creating software for process automation and document management in large companies.

Dominik is 37 years old, based in Germany, married (no kids, 2 cats) and works in the Software Industry for over 10 years. He has worked in many different contexts, from startups to contractors, from small companies to big international enterprises like Red Hat, where nowadays he works as a Senior Developer. There he helps to bring IAM solutions to life, namely Keycloak and Keycloak.X

He loves getting rid of legacy code and applying Domain Driven Design concepts for greater good. Also, he likes to organize and attend meetups and is active in his local software crafting community.

Israel Ekpo is an experienced solutions architect and strong proponent of Open-Source software particularly those related to search, data storage, visualization, analysis, and event stream processing. Over the years, Israel has had the opportunity to evolve while wearing many hats including but not limited to: technical trainer, software engineer, technical analyst, consultant, and solutions architect. He is currently serving as a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect with Microsoft Global Partner Solutions and is very passionate about learning new technologies. Israel loves to leverage his life experiences and in-depth knowledge of a broad range of technologies to mentor others and provide pragmatic solutions to real world problems.

A software engineer driven by challenges, who loves to learn new technologies and concepts. Jéssica has worked as a backend developer on several techstacks and projects in the last eight years.

Jéssica is a Principal Engineer at iFood, responsible to architect systems, lead her team, and implement innovative solutions to deal with the challenges of a huge platform based on microservices.

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.

Kuassi is Director of Product Management at Oracle. He looks after the following product areas (i) Java DB connectivity (JDBC/UCP), Database embedded JVM (a.k.a. OJVM)
(ii) MicroServices and RDBMS connectivity, and related topics (Data & Tx models, Kubernetes, SAGAs, Compensation) (iii) Serverless Functions and database connectivity (iv) Asynchronous and Reactive Database access, RxJava, Reactor, Akka-Streams, R2DBC (v) Zero downtime, multi-tenancy, and sharding for Java apps
(vi) Turning RDBMS Database tables into Hadoop and Spark datasources

He holds an MS CS from the Programming Institute of University of Paris.

He is a frequent speaker at IT events, including: JUG events and meetups, Scale by the Bay, JavaZo

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).

Maxim has a physics degree from the Moscow State University and Ms in computer science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Maxim has spent the last 20 years building massive distributed systems for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Uber. Among other things, he led the design and development of the AWS SQS backend, and AWS Simple Workflow Service. At Uber, Maxim led the effort on open source projects Cherami and Cadence Workflow.

Since October of 2019, Maxim has been the CEO/Cofounder of Temporal Technologies. Its flagship open source project temporal.io is redefining the way large-scale reliable applications are developed and operated.

Developer advocate for Lightrun, co-founder of Codename One, open source hacker, speaker, author, blogger, Java rockstar and more. ex-Sun/Oracle guy with 30 years of professional development experience. Shai built virtual machines, development tools, mobile phone environments, banking systems, startup/enterprise backends, user interfaces, development frameworks and much more. Shai speaks at conferences all over the world and shared the stage with luminaries such as James Gossling (father of Java). Shai is an award winning highly rated speaker with a knack for engaging the audience and deep technical chops.

Tihomir is a Developer Advocate at Temporal Technologies. He is also lead of the CNCF Serverless Workflow project. Tihomir has been working on workflow technologies and distributed systems for many years including being core developer of the jBPM project.

Yuri has over 30 years of experience working in IT. Most of his career was developed in consulting positions helping clients in different industries to differentiate themselves through new technologies adoption and business processes digitization. His primary area of focus has been on Application Development & Modernization with a heavy focus on architecture design & implementation, as well as, governance & strategy.