Jeremy is a Principal Architect at Red Hat. He helps Red Hat's customers to design and deliver applications, works with Red Hat engineers to create great products, and occasionally speaks at conferences. Before joining Red Hat he wrote a lot of code in C, C#, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Visual Basic; mostly Java. He currently co-lead Red Hat’s Application Development Community of Practice, and used to lead Red Hat's Microservices Community of Practice and the Business Rules and Workflow SME group. He has recently spent a lot of time with Quarkus and Kubernetes. He recently acquired a Marshall amp after relying on Fenders for years.

David Parry is an accomplished Director of Architecture with over 20 years of experience in Java development. It all began in 1996 when he discovered the fascinating world of programming, with a particular focus on Java applets. Throughout his illustrious career, David Parry has been involved in various noteworthy projects. He has successfully built and implemented content management systems for a wide range of clients, including the esteemed Johny Walker and its renowned keepwalking.com. Additionally, as a consultant at a Big 4 firm, David played a pivotal role in solving critical issues for numerous customers, demonstrating his expertise in handling complex and high-traffic web platforms. Never one to shy away from innovation, David Parry has expanded his skills to work on cutting-edge technologies such as mobile and embedded Android TV systems. Leveraging his expertise, he has delivered top-notch streaming services to customers, ensuring they have an exceptional viewing experience. Currently, David holds the position of Developer Advocate and Consultant overseeing strategic planning and execution of architectural designs for customers. With a deep understanding of software development principles and extensive experience in Java programming, he excels at providing valuable insights and guidance to his team. Having witnessed the evolution of Java development from its early days to its current state, David Parry's wealth of experience and strategic perspective, combined with his consulting work at a Big 4 firm, make him an invaluable asset in any project or organization he is a part of.

Trisha is a software engineer, Java Champion and author. Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries of all sizes, including finance, manufacturing and non-profit, and she's a lead developer advocate at Gradle. She has expertise in Java high-performance systems and dabbles with Open Source development. Trisha’s exceptionally passionate about sharing things that help real developers. That might be: getting them up to speed on the latest version of Java; teaching them tips and tricks to improve their productivity; or promoting healthy technical communities across the globe. Trisha values helping all developers level up their career and skills at every step of their journey. Read more from Trisha in the books “Head First Java”, “Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA”, “97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know” and “What to Look for in a Code Review”.

Elias is a Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, Java Magazine NL and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Backbase. He shares content related to Java, OSS and Quality Engineering at conferences, meetups, articles and open-source conferences.

Raju Gandhi has been writing software for over two decades. Along the way he's been a software architect, consultant, author, teacher, and regularly invited speaker at conferences around the world. As both a software developer and a teacher, he believes in keeping things simple, preferring to understand and explain the “why” as opposed to the “how.” Raju blogs at LooselyTyped.com and lives in Columbus, Ohio, US, along with his wonderful wife, Michelle, their sons, Mason and Micah, daughter, Delphine, and three furry family members, Buddy, Skye, and Princess Zara. You can find his contact information at rajugandhi.com. He’s always looking to make new friends.

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion Alumni, Developer Advocate for the Database Group At Oracle, with more than 2 decades of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects. Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event. Author of JReleaser. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.

A 27 year java veteran. I wrote my first java program in java 1.0 when AWT on the mac and unix were different. Since that time I have written uncounted lines of java code, and rewritten most of them. When I first read Fowlers Refactoring my life changed for the better as I realized there was a safe way to fix code that no longer suited.

M. Jeff Wilson is an avid software developer, published author, certified scrum master and SAFe Program Consultant, and lifelong learner. He has worked with teams in the telecommunications, insurance, traffic engineering, retail, and other industries to develop and deliver solutions and improve processes. Jeff has been coding since 1981, starting with punch cards and FORTRAN at Georgia Tech, and BASIC on a friend’s Apple IIe. Jeff enjoys gaming, running, music, homebrewing, and, yes, coding in his spare time.

Holistic developer and builder with a passion for development processes and practices. Afflicted by an acute Product Manager/Developer split personality disorder that was never treated. Currently, CTO and co-founder of Digma (digma.ai), an IDE plugin for code runtime AI analysis to help accelerate development in complex codebases. A big believer in evidence-based development, and a proponent of Continuous Feedback in all aspects of Software Engineering.

Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is a Distinguished Engineer and maker of things at Red Hat. She is a Java Champion, with over 25 years under her belt as a developer, technical leader, architect and advocate, and she strongly prefers being up to her elbows in code. Erin learns (and teaches) by coding ridiculous things, like "Monster Combat" (https://github.com/ebullient/monster-combat), an application that makes monsters fight each other to explore application metrics; and “Game On! Text Adventure” (https://gameontext.org) for exploring cloud native development.

I've been a software developer for 5 years and find it very important to share knowledge so the whole community can profit from it. With combining our knowledge we can achieve more together.