Speaker

Jamie Allsop

Jamie has been part of distributed agile teams in different companies for the past 7 years. He's been responsible for delivering diverse solutions with diverse teams: from multi-million dollar market data products in Stock Exchanges to specialised DSP systems with global branding. In that time he has learned a lot about agile development, and distributed teams in general. Much of that experience went into developing agile-trac, a free and open-source extension to the popular trac project management software. His recent interests have been in bringing agile development to the companies he works in. He's been fortunate to do this for reasonable project periods (up to 3 years in one case) and in truly distributed settings. This has been a good way to understand the effects of going agile, and more importantly learn from them - what’s really important and what’s not.

 

Mathieu Ancelin SERLI

Mathieu ANCELIN is a software engineer at SERLI, specialized in Java EE technologies with a strong interest on lightweight component frameworks. Mathieu is involved in several open-source projects such as Weld & GlassFish and leads some like Play CDI; He is a JSR-346 (CDI 1.1) expert group member and a crew member of the Poitou-Charentes JUG. Mathieu was speaker at JavaOne 2010, Solutions Linux 2010 as well as in some JUG events (JUG Summer Camp, etc ...). He also gives lectures at the University of La Rochelle and University of Poitiers.

 

Mike Barker

Michael Barker is currently a lead developer at London Multi-Asset eXchange (LMAX) where he spends most of his time scratching his head while thinking about simpler and faster solutions. Intermingled with travelling to various countries around the world, Michael's 10+ years of experience has been spent battling unnecessary complexity across a variety of industries (finance, telecoms, government) and in whatever technology that happens to have been hurled in his direction (Java/JavaEE, C++, .NET). Michael is also a sporadic Open Source contributor having dropped patches into a number of OSS projects including PostgreSQL, JBoss, GNU Classpath and most recently Mono & OpenJDK/MLVM.

 

Neil Bartlett Paremus Ltd

Neil is a Java developer and consultant specialising in OSGi and Eclipse RCP, in particular their use in large enterprise settings. He has helped a number of large corporations adopt OSGi through consulting and training. Neil is also known as the author of "OSGi in Practice", as the principal developer of Bndtools, and for delivering the "Masterclass on OSGi" training series alongside Peter Kriens.

 

Mike Bassett Electronic Arts

Dr. Mike Bassett is a senior technical manager and chartered engineer with 20 years experience delivering hardware and software products where efficiently leveraging cutting edge research is critical. For the last six plus years at Electronic Arts has been focused on heading up the UK EATech business group including a talented team of 20 software engineers that develop EA’s physics engine that brings competitive advantage to many of the companies most successful titles.

 

Rupert Bates Guardian.co.uk

Rupert Bates is Lead Android Developer at guardian.co.uk. Before moving to Android he worked as a web developer with a particular interest in asynchronous and service oriented architectures. He is a keen user of functional programming languages."

 

Sandeep Bhanot Salesforce.com

Sandeep Bhanot is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com. In prior incarnations (he is Indian after all) he has been a Java Developer, an Enterprise Architect and a SOA Consultant. As a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com, he helps spread the gospel of the Cloud and Heroku.

 

Adam Bien Independant Consultant, Java EE Expert

Adam Bien (www.adam-bien.com) is an independent speaker, software architect, developer, consultant, and author. Adam is using Java from the beginning (JDK 1.0) in different large scale projects. He wrote several books about Java and J2EE technology ("J2EE Patterns", "J2EE HotSpots", "Enterprise Java Frameworks", "Struts" and "Enterprise Java Architekturen"). Now he is working on architecture, and of course also the implementation in several J2EE/MDA-projects. He is also involved in embedded Java and P2P technology.

 

Keith Braithwaite Zuhlke Engineering

Keith Brathwaite has been a Principal Consultant and Business Unit Leader at Zuhlke since 2006. He leads their Centre for Agile Practice in London, a group of engineers and consultants specialising in teaching, coaching and practising Agile development for clients in a wide range of industries around the world.

 

Sam Brannen Swiftmind

Sam Brannen is a Senior Software Consultant with over 13 years' experience and co-founder of Swiftmind, a software consulting agency in Zürich, Switzerland. At Swiftmind, Sam helps international clients achieve best practices in agile software development, architecture, design, implementation, and testing of enterprise Java applications using the Spring Framework and a plethora of open source technologies. In his  consulting role, Sam most enjoys leading work shops, code reviews, coaching, and training clients. Sam is a popular speaker at conferences on Java, Spring, and OSGi. He is also an active core committer for the Spring Framework, lead author of "Spring in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly, author of the Spring TestContext Framework, and was previously a core developer of SpringSource dm Server (a.k.a., Eclipse Virgo). Over the years, Sam has helped clients build applications in various business sectors ranging from e-commerce to banking, retail, automotive, and social communities. When not in front of his computer, Sam enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.

 

Adrian Cole Cloudsoft

Adrian founded the open source project jclouds in March 2009, following 15 years of production engineering and deployment automation in financial services, health care, hosting, and education contexts. He's actively engaged in cloud interoperability and devops circles around the world, collaborating with cloud ISVs and service providers, and open source communities. Adrian joined as Chief Evangelist at Cloudsoft in August 2011.

 

Thomas Diesler RedHat

Thomas is the OSGi Project Lead at JBoss. As the Red Hat representative in the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group he is involved in the standardization effort of various OSGi technologies that are relevant to the enterprise space.

 

Tim Ellison IBM UK Labs

Tim Ellison is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Java Technology Centre with worldwide responsibility for Class Library and Open Source Engineering. He is a Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, and chair of the Apache Harmony Project Management Committee. He has contributed to the commercial implementation of Smalltalk, IBM VisualAge Micro Edition, Eclipse, and the Java SDK spanning a period of over twenty years. He has a broad knowledge of high performance runtimes, open source methodologies, and development environments and he presents regularly on these topics at technical conferences.

 

Ben Evans

Ben Evans is a member of the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, helping define standards for the Java ecosystem. He works as a technical architect and development lead in the financial industry. He is an organizer for the UK Graduate Developer Community, a co-leader of the London Java Community and a regular speaker on Java, concurrency, new programming languages and related topics.

 

Paul Fremantle WSO2

Paul Fremantle is Chief Technology Officer of WSO2, where he leads the technical team in building the Open Source SOA and Cloud middleware. Paul is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation and VP of Apache Synapse, as well as regular technical blogger and presenter. Paul was listed as one of Infoworld’s top 25 CTOs in 2008 and was previously a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. He holds two Master’s degrees from Oxford University, and has co-authored two books on XML and Web Services.

 

Jonathan Gallimore Wave2 Media Solutions

Jon is an Open Source and Java EE enthusiast working for Wave2 Media Solutions in the UK. As an Open Source consumer-turned-contributor, Jon developed an EJB 2.x to EJB 3.0 converter Eclipse plugin, has implemented key parts of EJB 3.1 compliance in Apache OpenEJB, and contributes significantly to the budding Apache TomEE stack. When not grinding away at work by day and burning the midnight oil on Apache OpenEJB at night, Jon enjoys cooking and an occasional game of golf.

 

Trisha Gee

Trisha is a developer at LMAX, the London Multi Asset eXchange. She's been working in financial markets for the last 5 years or so, but a fear of boredom and healthy amount of job-hopping before then has given her a wide breadth of experience, in a range of industries, over the 10+ years she's been a professional developer. Currently trying to get her head around low-latency, high performance coding whilst also keeping her fingers in the other pies LMAX has to offer, such as continuous delivery and agile. Trisha is heavily involved in the London Java Community and the Graduate Development Community, she believes we shouldn't all have to make the same mistakes again and again.

 

Oliver Gierke SpringSource, a division of VMware

Oliver Gierke is engineer at SpringSource, a division of VMware, project lead of the Spring Data JPA, MongoDB and core module and member of the JPA 2.1 expert group. He has been into developing enterprise applications and open source projects for over 6 years now. His working focus is centered around software architecture, Spring and persistence technologies. He is regularly speaking at German and international conferences as well as author of technology articles.

 

Jason Gorman Codemanship Ltd

Jason Gorman of Codemanship Ltd is a veteran software developer, coach and trainer based in London. He's chair of the Software Craftsmanship conference, an activist in getting programming into British schools, a patron of the Bletchley Park Trust, and an amateur musician.

 

James Governor RedMonk

James Governor is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy. He advises enterprises, startups and major companies such as IBM and Microsoft on developer-led innovation, community and technology strategy. James is co-author of the O’Reilly book Web 2.0 Design Patterns: what architects and entrepreneurs need to know. RedMonk makes extensive of social media tools in its business operations - James, aka @monkchips, has more than 9k followers on twitter. He is also listed in the top 5 analysts worldwide by the Institute of Analyst Relations. Chairman of SAP's external panel for stakeholder assurance in Sustainability Strategy and Reporting for 2009 he led the creation of the Greenmonk sustainability advisory service, a RedMonk subsidiary.

 

Arun Gupta Oracle

Arun Gupta is a Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 14 years of experience in software industry working in various distributed computing technologies, Java(TM) platform, and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works very closely to create and foster the community around Java EE, GlassFish, and related technologies. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other companies. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and since then he has contributed to all Java EE releases. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta. This blog has over 1000 blog entries with frequent vistors from all over the world reaching upto 25,000 hits a day. He has extensive world-wide speaking experience on multiple technologies.

 

Dan Hardiker Adaptavist.com

Dan Hardiker is the Chief Technical Officer and a founding member of Adaptavist.com, which specializes in providing services on and around the Atlassian software stack. Dan has many years of Java expertise, as well as almost two decades of wider technical experience with many systems - focusing on infrastructure, performance, and security. He speaks regularly at industry conferences on these topics. He also works with enabling geeks to socialize throughout the UK via the GeekUp and BarCamp initiatives.

 

Emily Jiang IBM

Emily Jiang is an OSGi developer and works for IBM. Based at IBM's Hursley laboratory in the UK, she has worked in WebSphere Application Server since 2006 starting from web services technologies and more recently the OSGi feature of WebSphere Application Server Version 8 and Version 7 OSGi and JPA feature pack. Emily is also an active committer in Apache Aries project.

 

Khanderao Kand GloMantra Inc

Khanderao Kand, CTO of GloMantra Inc, is a senior technologist from the Silicon Valley. He is an expert in Java Stack, Social, Mobile and Cloud Computing. Earlier he was Lead Architect of SOA and BPM Fusion Middleware Development at Oracle. He was the Main Consulting Architect for SOA and BPM for Oracle Fusion Apps. He represented in OASIS standards namely BPEL and SCA. Earlier he was the Architect of Peopletools Development and CRM Apps. He has been an author in many journals and a speaker at many conferences including Oracle Open World, JaxConf.

 

Peter Ledbrook VMware

Peter is a long time Grails user and plugin author who found some time to co-author the book Grails in Action. He is currently a core committer to the project and the Grails Advocate at SpringSource/VMware - a job that has surprisingly meant learning even more about the framework.

 

Martin Lippert SpringSource/VMware

Martin Lippert works for SpringSource/VMware on developer tooling for the Spring platform and leads the team of the SpringSource Tool Suite. Aside of that he works on OSGi runtime technologies and commits to open source projects. Before joining SpringSource/VMware, Martin founded (together with colleagues) it-agile, a leading consulting and development company focused on agile software development and worked, and worked many years as consultant and coach for agile software development and flexible and modularized architectures. He is author of papers, articles, and books on various topics including agile software development, Eclipse technology and refactoring techniques.

 

Mark Little Red Hat

Dr. Mark Little leads JBoss technical direction, research and development. Prior to this he was SOA technical development manager, and director of standards. He was chief architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, and Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard when Arjuna was spun off. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80s. His PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. He is currently also a professor at Newcastle University.

 

Sandro Mancuso UBS

Software craftsman and co-founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC). Sandro has been coding since a very young age but just started his professional career in 1996. He has worked for startups, software houses, product companies and international consultancy companies. Having worked as a consultant for the majority of his career, he had the opportunity to work in a good variety of projects, with different languages and technologies, and across many industries. Currently he is a director at UBS Investment Bank, where he works as a hands-on mentor, giving technical directions, looking after the quality of the systems and pair-programming with developers in the UK and abroad. His main objective is to help developers to become real software craftsmen.

 

Simon Maple IBM

Simon Maple is a Technical Evangelist and a Developer and for WebSphere Application Server, his current focus is on developer experience. Simon has spent 10 years working with WebSphere Application Server, specialising on the transaction service, extended transactions, OSGi Applications and more recently the Liberty Profile. Simon is an active member of the London Java Community.

 

Jon Mort Adaptavist.com

Jon is a software enthusiast specialising in making things work. Currently working at Adaptavist.com as a Specialist Consultant driving the technical direction of the team and is active in the Atlassian developer community. Jon has a diverse background covering enterprise, desktop and networking applications in a variety of programming languages. Having experienced the pressures of performance tuning in the wild, Jon is able to draw from this to realistically portray how developers tend to react when faced with fire breathing managers & customers demanding rapid results.

 

Emanuel Muckenhuber JBoss, a division of Red Hat

Emanuel joined JBoss in 2007 working on JBoss Portal and moved to the Application Server team in 2008. Where he is mainly focusing on the core integration and management related areas.

 

Ted Neward Neward & Associates

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

 

Sam Newman ThoughtWorks

Sam Newman is a technical consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he has been for over five years. He has worked with a variety of companies in both delivery and enablement roles, but tends to prefer the more complex technical challenges over coaching roles. He is currently the Continuous Delivery and Cloud Practice Lead for Europe. He has written articles for O’Reilly, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. Principally a Java developer, he also spends lots of time with Scala, Python, and Clojure.

 

Alasdair Nottingham IBM

Alasdair Nottingham is a developer and architect for WebSphere Application Server, his current focus is on improving the developer experience. During his ten years of experience as a developer of WebSphere Application Server he works on many aspects of the server, from samples to programming models. He led the development of the OSGi applications feature, helped bring OSGi to the server in version 6.1, and worked on various aspects of the messaging capabilities in WebSphere Application Server, and more recently led the development of the new WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Alpha Liberty Profile. Alasdair is also an active participant in the OSGi Alliance standards body and an active contributor to the Apache Aries project. Alasdair is hairier than his photo would suggest.

 

Mark Nuttall IBM

Dr Mark Nuttall is a software engineer based at IBM Hursley in the UK. He's currently the development lead for the OSGi Applications feature of WebSphere Application Server, and an active committer on the Apache Aries project. Mark's fourteen years of Java development experience cover distributed and mobile computing projects, asynchronous messaging, rich internet applications, and more recently, OSGi, open source, open standards and agile development.

 

Fredrik Öhrström Oracle

Fredrik Öhrström has been developing the JRockit and Hotspot JVM primarily within the areas of code generation and runtime. He has also spent a significant amount of time with JSR292 and the support for dynamic language on the JVM. He is now working in the group that develops and evolves the Java language.

 

Roman Pichler Pichler Consulting Ltd

Roman Pichler helps his clients develop innovative and successful software products - products that customers love. He has a long track record in training and coaching individuals and teams in agile product management and Scrum, and ten years experience in helping companies embrace agile methods. Roman is the author of three books on Agile and Scrum including "Agile Product Management with Scrum" and a frequent speaker at international conferences. Find out more at http://www.romanpichler.com or visit his blog at http://www.allthingsproductowner.com.

 

Simon Ritter Oracle Corporation

Simon Ritter is a Java Technology Evangelist at Oracle Corporation. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K. Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Simon moved to Sun in 1996. At this time he started working with Java technology and has spent time working both in Java technology development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition he now focuses on the core Java platform and Java for client applications. He also continues to develop demonstrations that push the boundaries of Java for applications like gestural interfaces.

 

Ian Robinson Neo Technology

Ian Robinson (@iansrobinson) is Director of Customer Success for Neo Technology, the company behind Neo4j, the world's leading open source graph database. He is a co-author of "REST in Practice" (O'Reilly) and a contributor to the forthcoming "REST: From Research to Practice" (Springer) and "Service Design Patterns" (Addison-Wesley). He presents at conferences worldwide on the big Web graph of REST, and the awesome graph capabilities of Neo4j, and blogs at http://iansrobinson.com.

 

Andrew Rubinger JBoss by Red Hat

 

Gonçalo Silva Novoda

It was a love of engineering that continually drew Gonçalo closer to the hardware which he worked on as a sound engineer. Now Gonçalo is a full time software developer at Novoda specialising in Android software.

 

John Stevenson London Java Community

John is the UK ambassador for Atlassian and active organiser of several communities in London. He runs workshops and speaks on technical topics including open source projects, developer tools, continuous delivery, TDD & BDD practices and declarative (functional) programming (Clojure). John also presents on kanban as a way to help individuals, teams and organisations become more effective. He is a strong advocate of group learning and encourages others to get involved with the community for their own personal growth. In his spare time, John likes to cycle quite a lot (200-400km) on a weekend if he is not too busy learning.

 

Ben Stopford Royal Bank of Scotland

Ben Stopford is a specialist in compute and data grid technologies with experience at several investment banks and at Thoughtworks. He has a number of publications and speaking engagements to his name including QCon, JavaOne, OpenWorld and a number of acadmenic conferences. He currently leads development of a prize-winning distributed data store at The Royal Bank of Scotland. You can find more about him at http://www.benstopford.com

 

Steve Streeting Atlassian

Steve Streeting has been developing software professionally for 17 years, and has worked in many areas including mainframe systems, enterprise Java deployments, real-time graphics systems, and most recently Mac developer tools. He's been a developer, a team lead, an operations guy, an open source project lead, and an entrepreneur - but somehow he's always writing code somewhere. He joined Atlassian in September 2011 when they acquired SourceTree, a Mac client he created for Git and Mercurial.

 

Dave Syer SpringSource VMware

Dr David Syer is the technical lead on Spring Batch, Spring Hadoop and Spring Batch Admin, and a contributor to Spring AMQP and Spring Integration. He is an experienced, delivery-focused architect and development manager. He has designed and built successful enterprise software solutions using Spring, and implemented them in major financial institutions worldwide. David is known for his clear and informative communication style and has deep knowledge and experience with all aspects of real-life usage of the Spring framework.

 

Roberto Tyley GitHub

Roberto is the man behind the Agit android client which allows you to actually clone a Git repository directly to the storage of your phone and browse it locally. It is also open source if you want to see some cool usage of JGit on Android.

 

Joachim Van der Auwera Geosparc nv

Joachim Van der Auwera is a software consultant with a strong focus on building quality software with lots of reusability and which is highly maintainable. He has been using Java for more than 10 years. In this period he was involved in both architecture and development of enterprise applications. He has a lot of experience with open source projects and is part of the three-headed dragon leading the development and architecture of the Geomajas GIS spatial data and web mapping framework. His achievements in the project include the security architecture, plug-in mechanism, API contract, documentation system etc. He has more than 10 years Java experience, mostly for enterprise projects.

 

Martijn Verburg Ikasan

Martijn Verburg is a Dutch Born Kiwi who co-leads the London JUG (aka the LJC) and also is heavily involved in the London graduate/undergraduate developer, CTO and software craftsmanship communities. The Javaranch kindly invited him to be a bartender in 2008 and he's been humbled by the awesomeness of that community ever since. He's currently working on somewhat complex JCA Connectors and an associated open source middleware platform (Ikasan) and also spends a good deal of time herding monkeys on another open source project that deals with creating characters for d20 based role playing games (PCGen). More recently he's joined Ben Evans in writing "The Well-Grounded Java Developer (Covers Java 7 and polyglot programming on the JVM) for Manning publications and can be found speaking at conferences (such as TSSJS and DevNexus) on a wide range of topics including open sourcing software, software craftsmanship and the latest advancements in the OpenJDK.

 

Tim Ward IBM

Tim Ward is a design and development lead for IBM’s OSGi Application support in WebSphere Application Server, and has been actively working with OSGi for nearly five years. Tim is a regular participant in the OSGi Core Platform and Enterprise Expert Groups where he has led specification development for a number technologies. As an EEG member he co-authored the JPA service specification, while in CPEG he has driven the design for bytecode weaving and classpath scanning support from the core framework. Tim is also an active committer and PMC member in the Apache Aries project, which provides an OSGi application container based on implementations of the application-focused specifications defined by the EEG. Tim is an experienced speaker, and in the last few years has presented talks about OSGi, the Java Persistence API, Apache Aries, and WebSphere Application Server at EclipseCon, Jazoon, Devoxx, and Jax London.

 

Jim Webber Neo Technology

Dr. Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology, the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j, where he works on graph database server technology and writes open source software. Jim is interested in using big graphs like the Web for building distributed systems, which led him to being a co-author on the book 'REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture', having previously written 'Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide'. Jim is an active speaker, presenting regularly around the world. His blog is located at http://jimwebber.org and he tweets often @jimwebber

 

Russel Winder Concertant LLP

Russel was originally a theoretical particle physicist but decided in 1980 that being a UNIX systems programmer was more fun. However, academia continued to call and he moved to UCL to lecture in programming, software engineering and human--computer interaction, and do research on parallel programming languages and socio-technical aspects of software development. After 13 years at UCL, Russel moved to KCL to be Professor of Computing Science. Having revamped the teaching programme, continued the research on parallel programming languages, and started research programmes in health informatics, it was time for new challenges so he left KCL to become CTO of OneEighty Software Ltd, a company using novel virtual machine approaches to embedded systems. Unfortunately, the money ran out for this start-up before the orders flooded in and so it had to fold. Since then, Russel has been a consultant, analyst, trainer (Java SE, Java ME, Groovy and Python) and author ("Developing Java Software" third edition, and "Python for Rookies"). The recent rise of multicore processors means that parallelism has finally arrived (after 30 years of being the coming technology), so Russel with two colleagues started a new consultancy practice (Concertant LLP) undertaking consultancy, analysis and management work in all areas of parallelism and concurrency. Russel is centrally involved with the development of the Groovy programming language and the GParallelizer framework, is author of the Gant Ant task scripting framework, and contributes to the Gradle and SCons build frameworks.

 

Eberhard Wolff adesso AG

Eberhard Wolff is founding member of the Java Champions, author of several articles and books - among them the first German Spring book. He is a regular speaker and member of the program committee at international conferences. He is working as Architecture and Technology Manager at adesso AG in Berlin.

 

Alexander von Zitzewitz hello2morrow Inc.

Alexander von Zitzewitz is one of the founders of hello2morrow and has more than 20 years of experience with object-oriented software development and software architecture in general. Currently he is leading the North American operations of hello2morrow.

 

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