Michael Redlich has been an active member within the Java community for the past 25 years. He founded the Garden State Java User Group (formerly the ACGNJ Java Users Group) in 2001 where he serves as one of the directors. Since 2016, Mike has served as a Java community news editor for InfoQ where his contributions include the weekly Java news roundup, news items, technical articles and technical reviews from external authors. He is currently the lead Java Queue editor. Mike joined Payara as a contract Developer Advocate and Technical Writer in the summer of 2023. He has presented at venues such as Devnexus, Oracle Code One, JCON World, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, Trenton Computer Festival (TCF), TCF IT Professional Conference, and numerous Java User Groups. Mike serves as a committer on the Jakarta NoSQL and Jakarta Data specifications and the Eclipse JNoSQL project. He also participates on the leadership council of the Jakarta EE Ambassadors. Mike was named a Java Champion in April 2023. Mike retired from ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering in June 2023 with 33½ years of service. His experience included developing custom scientific laboratory and web applications, polymer physics, chemometrics, infrared spectroscopy and automotive testing. He also has experience as a Technical Support Engineer at Ai-Logix, Inc. (now AudioCodes) where he provided technical support and developed telephony applications for customers.

Gaurav Gupta is a Senior Software Engineer at Payara and the creator of Jeddict, an innovative, open-source, AI-powered Jakarta EE application development platform. As an Apache NetBeans Committer and an Eclipse GlassFish Committer, Gaurav brings extensive expertise and dedication to advancing these key open-source tools. His focus on enhancing developer productivity and Jakarta EE standards through cutting-edge technologies highlights his commitment to the open-source ecosystem and his mission to empower developers worldwide.

Julian Ortiz is a Solutions Architect at Oracle within the Enterprise Cloud Native Java group. With over two decades of Java development experience, tracking the evolution of Java, from J2SE, J2EE, and J2ME for early mobile device game development to today's Java newest releases. Julian honed his skills at Sun Microsystems, working alongside numerous leading Java Development Teams.

Chuck is the development lead for WebSphere and Open Liberty Projects and is based at IBM’s RTP Laboratory in Durham, NC. Chuck has been involved in open source projects spanning 20 years including pioneering the Eclipse platform, Eclipse Web Tools Project, various Java and Node Tools for Eclipse.

Harry is a Software Engineer working as the team lead on the Open Liberty Kernel team and is based at IBM's RTP Laboratory in Durham, NC.  He has 25 plus years of experience working in various IBM divisions such as Global Business Services, and the IBM Cloud and Cognitive group.  Harry holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.  Check out this blog post to learn more about Harry's activities in open source: https://openliberty.io/blog/2021/10/07/HarryHoots_MeetTheTeam.html

Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion and JUG Leader based in Sweden. Besides advocating the Jakarta EE technologies, Ivar is contributing to the Jakarta EE specifications as well as being the PMC Lead for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J). He is also one of the specification leads for Jakarta MVC and represents Eclipse Foundation on the JCP Executive Committee. Ivar is also involved in a wide range of other open-source projects and communities. He is a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.

Passionate computer scientist. Java Champion and Google Developers Expert for Cloud. Public speaker. Ex-leader of JavaZone and Norwegian JUG – javaBin.

Kito D. Mann is the Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc., specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, and mentoring with microservices, cloud, Web Components, Angular, and Jakarta/Java EE technologies. He is also the co-host of The Stackd Podcast and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action. Mann has participated in several Java Community Process expert groups (including CDI, JSF, and Portlets) and is an internationally recognized speaker. He is also a Java Champion and Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Petr is a developer with a special interest in Jakarta EE (committer for Jakarta Concurrency). His major business interest was always development of web applications for big companies and banks, but he used Java for everything from Java Card, desktop app in Swing, applets, data preprocessing for data mining, databases, games, interpreters, programming on mainframes, etc. He likes all the achievements of last decades like SCRUM (Agile in general), UX, TDD, CI/CD, virtualization. He got a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics from the Czech Technical University.

Java developer since 2011, Speaker since 2012 Guate-JUG Co-leader and JConf Guatemala organizer Oracle Duke Choice Award winner in 2016 with Guate-JUG

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Software Engineer with over a decade of specialized experience in Java and related technologies. His expertise has been formally recognized through the prestigious title of Java Champion. Beyond his professional commitments, Mr. Rahman is deeply involved in community outreach and education. He is the founder and current moderator of the Java User Group in Bangladesh, where he has organized educational meetups and conferences since 2013. In the past two years, Mr. Rahman has been an active speaker at various international conferences and Java user groups. His talks have often focused on specialized topics such as concurrency and virtual threads. In addition to his community work, Mr. Rahman also serves as an editor for Java Queue at InfoQ and Foojay.io, both of which are leading platforms for technology content. Notably, he has authored five books on the Java programming language in Bengali, three of which have become best sellers in Bangladesh. He is currently writing a new book with O'Reilly titled "Modern Concurrency in Java". https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/modern-concurrency-in/9781098165406/

Shaaf is a Principal Architect at Red Hat. A contributor to Konveyor community a CNCF Sandbox project. Mostly developing code with Java, Node and recently AI/ML. For the last 15 years, he has helped customers create and adopt open source solutions for applications, cloud and managed service, continuous integration environments, and frameworks. Shaaf is a technical editor and InfoQ and spends his time writing about Kubernetes, Security and Java

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 for over 10 years. He’s worked for clients like Payara, LottoLand, Uniqa and others. He has co-founded OmniFish, which provides enterprise support for Eclipse GlassFish and expert Jakarta EE services. He’s passionate about helping his clients and the wider Java community with their projects based on Jakarta EE and similar technologies. As an experienced Java developer and instructor, he's helped companies build and educate their development teams and improve their development processes. He's a core member of several opensource projects and Jakarta EE specification projects. He’s a frequent conference speaker, leader of the Czech JUG, and a Java Champion.