Blanca Garcia Gil is a principal systems engineer at BBC. She currently works on a team whose aim is to provide a reliable platform at petabyte scale for data engineering and machine learning.
Last year she gave her first talk at DevoxxUK and is keen in sharing her journey and the positive benefits it has had one year on.
Ryan Cuprak is an CPG & Retail, Formulation R&D Development Senior Manager at Dassault Systemes, co-author EJB in Action 2nd Edition from Manning and the NetBeans Certification Guide from McGrall-Hill. He is also president of the Connecticut Java Users Group since 2003. Ryan is a JavaOne Rockstar Presenter. At Dassault Systemes he works on the ENOVIA Enginuity chemical formulation software and is involved in desktop and backend server development as well as client data migrations. Prior to joining DS, Ryan worked for a distributed computing company, TurboWorx, and also Eastman Kodak’s Molecular imaging Systems group, now part of Burker. Ryan earned a BS in computer science and biology from Loyola University Chicago.
Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. She is Liberty Microservices Architect and Advocate, STSM in IBM, based at Hursley Lab in the UK. Emily is a senior MicroProfile lead and has been working on MicroProfile since 2016 and leads the specifications of MicroProfile Config, Fault Tolerance and Service Mesh. She is CDI Expert Group member.
She has worked on the WebSphere Application Server since 2006 and is heavily involved in Java EE and MicroProfile implementation in Liberty releases.
She regularly speaks at conferences, such as Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx US, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx UK, Devoxx France, EclipseCon, etc. Follow her on Twitter @emilyfhjiang and/or connect with her on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-jiang-60803812/).
Luis Weir is a Director of Software Development at Oracle and a former Chief Architect at Capgemini, Oracle Ace Director and Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. An API management and microservices evangelist, Luis has over 17 years of experience implementing complex distributed systems around the world.
Co-author of 3 other books as well as numerous articles and white papers, Luis has been a frequent speaker frequent speaker at known events such as CodeOne, Devoxx, Gartner AAD&I, Oracle OpenWorld, Java2Days and many user groups and meetups.
Luis holds an MS in Corporate Networks and Systems Integration from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) and a BS in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Nueva Esparta.
Tom Mueller is a Staff Engineer 2 at VMware specializing in the development and cloud deployment of the Workspace ONE Access product which provides federated user authentication and control of application access for the Workspace ONE suite. Tom’s experience with Java dates back almost to when it was called Oak and included early applet development and later server development with portlets (JSR-168), the Java EE reference implementation (Glassfish), and various identity-related technologies. His current role involves full stack development of both cloud-hosted and on-premises software solutions.
Josef is a Security Engineer at Hazelcast. He is a passionate Java developer, open-source contributor and decent runner. He spent 10+ years by focusing on different aspects of application security. He takes care of security at Hazelcast, before that he was a security freak at JBoss. Josef maintains several open-source projects – for instance the jd-cmd (command line wrapper for Java Decompiler), JSignPdf (digital signatures for PDFs), totp-me (TOTP authenticator for Java ME enabled devices).
My name is Tushka and I am a Java Technical lead at Scalefocus. I work mainly in Java based projects. I have strong technical background mostly as a Java backend developer.
I am passionate about new technologies and mentoring. I am also interested in topics for self-improvement and coaching.
I love traveling abroad, meeting new people and learning about other cultures.
Anton has spent more than three years in commercial front-end development and has been passionate about it since high school. Currently, he is an eager explorer of Typescript, functional, and reactive programming, as well as making beautiful interfaces. Anton also loves various sports and enjoys traveling in his spare time.
Ali Ok works for Red Hat with a strong focus on the cloud. He is an Apache committer.
He is using Kubernetes, OpenShift and Operators in his day-to-day activities.
He experiments with many other emerging technologies in his free time.
Georgi is a full-stack developer with more than 5 years experience with Java programming and related technologies. He has worked across various fields such as banking, fintech, logistics and telecoms. Georgi enjoys developing both front-end and back-end applications, however his favourite language remains Java for its flexibility and huge potential. In his free time, he enjoys sports, movies and spending time with his friends and family.
