Tomas Langer
Helidon architect and developer with experience from Java EE (Consulting WebLogic), and from customer’s point of view (software architect at two IT companies).
Speakers
Dan Lebrero
Daniel Lebrero is a technical architect with more than 15 years of software development experience. He has worked on monolithic websites, embedded applications, low latency systems, micro services, streaming applications and big data. He now creates open source software at Akvo. A long time Java practitioner, he now also loves ().
Steve Kosten
Steve Kosten is a security consultant at Cypress Data Defense and an instructor for the SANS DEV541 Secure Coding in Java/JEE: Developing Defensible Applications course. He’s previously performed security work in the defense and financial sectors and headed up the security department for a financial services firm. He is currently the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Denver chapter leader and is on the board for the OWASP AppSec USA conference. He has presented security talks before numerous conferences. He is experienced in secure code review, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, risk management. He holds a bachelor of science in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Science in Information Security from James Madison University. He currently maintains GSSP-JAVA, GWAPT, CISSP, and CISM certifications. Steve resides in Golden, Colorado. In his spare time, Steve enjoys attending his childrens’ sporting events with his wife, road and mountain biking, snowboarding, golfing, volleyball, and flying.
Brian Vermeer
Brian is a Software Engineer at Blue4IT working consultancy based on all sorts of Java projects for the Top-100 companies in the Netherlands. He is passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming and Cybersecurity. He is a regular conference speaker on events like JFall, JBCNConf, Oracle Code, Devoxx, JavaZone, JFokus and JavaOne. Besides being an engineer he is a Reservist at the Royal Netherlands Air Force and a Taekwondo Master.
Michael Schrenk
Michael Schrenk has developed software that collects and processes massive amounts of data for some of the biggest news agencies in Europe and leads a competitive intelligence consultancy in Las Vegas. He consults on information security and Big Data everywhere from Moscow to Silicon Valley, and most places in between. Mike is the author of Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers. He has lectured at journalism conferences in Belgium and the Netherlands and has created several weekend data workshops for the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Along the way, he’s been interviewed by BBC, the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and many others. Mike is also an eight-time speaker at the notorious DEF CON hacking conference. He may be best known for building software that over a period of a few months autonomously purchased over $13 million dollars worth of cars by adapting to real-time market conditions.
Siegfried Goeschl
Siegfried Goeschl is currently an ASF member, Apache Turbine & JSPWiki PMC (Project Management Committee). Over the last 10 years he was also Apache Commons Committer & PMC working on commons-email & commons-exec, Apache XML-RPC Committer, Apache Isis & JSPWiki mentor and Apache Maven contributor. He became involved with Open Source in 2000 contributing JUnitPP (one of the first JUnit extensions ever), got involved with Maven, confused with Jelly and wrote an Avalon container now being part of Apache Turbine (this makes him to the last Avalonier in this part of the universe). His professional interests are centered around writing server-side Java code, full-text search, performance testing, quality assurance and build management. If there is some time left besides his company, consulting work, Open Source software development and family he helps at the local Java User Group and organizing the next GDG DevFest in Vienna.
Steven Lauwereins
Steven Lauwereins was born in Leuven, Belgium in 1990. He received the B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium in 2011 and 2013, respectively. From 2013 until his PhD graduation in 2018, he was a research assistant at the ESAT-MICAS Laboratories of KU Leuven focussed on ultra-low power IoT sensor nodes through efficient machine learning hardware. Since 2018, he is research lead at Televic Rail, Izegem, Belgium.
Ondro Mihalyi
Ondro is a software developer and consultant specializing in combining standard and proven tools to solve new and challenging problems. He’s been developing in Java and Java EE for 9 years.
As a Scrum Master and experienced Java EE developer and trainer, he’s helped companies to build and educate their development teams, improve their development processes and be flexible and successful in meeting client requirements.
He’s a core member of Payara and MicroProfile opensource projects and a leader of Czech JUG. He loves working with the Jakarta EE community and would welcome anyone to contribute to Payara, MicroProfile, Jakarta EE as well as to any other opensource project in the Java ecosystem.
Angel Gruev
Angel Gruev is a co-founder and CTO of Dreamix Ltd. He has more than 12 years of experience in Software Architecture, Project Managеment, Research and Development. Angel has a Bachelor in Computer Science from Sofia University and Masters in Technological Enterpreneurship and innovations in Informational techologies. He is a professor in Sofia University teaching Computer Science and regularly gives lectures about Java in different companies. Angel has a great success record being a Software Architect for major international companies.
Martin Kulov
Martin Kulov has 20 years professional experience in the software industry. During the years he has held various positions in the professional software engineering field. Martin helps building high quality software systems and teams. He loves to make software work better and faster, and to solve critical problems in production environments.
He is long time speaker at events related to Microsoft technology in Bulgaria and abroad. He has been awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 12+ years.
Last but not least – Martin is president of Association of Software Engineers, non-profit organization that thrives to help software engineers in their lifelong learning activities and professional development.