Jeanne Boyarsky is a Java Champion from New York City and has been a Java developer for more than 23 years. She has co-authored Wiley's Oracle Java 8/11/17/21 certification books in addition to "Real World Java". Jeanne volunteers at CodeRanch and mentors the programmers on a high school robotics team in her free time. She has spoken at numerous conferences including Dev Nexus, QCon, KCDC, and JavaOne.