Advisory Board

Uberto Barbini

Gama-Soft

Uberto is a polyglot programmer and hands-on software architect with more than 20 years of experience designing and building successful software products in many industries.He is very passionate and opinionated about how to deliver value to the business not only once but at a regular pace. He is particularly interested in Functional Programming and Distributed Computing since they are both critical to modern software challenges.When not coding, Uberto loves public speaking, writing and teaching programming. He’s currently writing a book about Pragmatic Functional Kotlin. You can read his blog here: https://medium.com/@ramtop

Monica Beckwith

Code Karam LLC

Monica Beckwith is an independent performance consultant and trainer optimizing customer applications and systems running the Java Virtual Machine. She has worked with Java HotSpot VM optimizing the JIT Compiler, the generated code, the JVM heuristics and garbage collection and collectors. Monica is a regular speaker at various conferences and has several published articles on topics including garbage collection, the Java memory model and others. Monica led Oracle’s Garbage First Garbage Collector performance team, and was named a JavaOne Rock Star. Monica also co-authored the ‘Java Performance Companion’ book.
Monica was recently considered one of the influential women in Java and Scala: http://blog.takipi.com/10-influential-women-in-java-scala-and-everything-in-between/

Emily Jiang

IBM

Emily Jiang is Java Champion. She is Senior MicroProfile Lead and has been working on MicroProfile since 2016 and leads the specifications of MicroProfile Config, Fault Tolerance and Service Mesh, and she also involves in other MicroProfile specifications, such as Reactive Streams Operators, Reactive Messaging, etc. She is Config JSR co-spec lead and CDI Expert Group member.

She works for IBM as Liberty Architect for MicroProfile and CDI. Based at IBM’s Hursley laboratory in the UK, she has worked on the WebSphere Application Server since 2006 and is heavily involved in Java EE 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.

SEBASTIAN MEYEN

Software & Support Media

Sebastian Meyen is Chief Content Officer at S&S Media. He has been actively involved with the IT industry for more than twenty years. As a journalist he is constantly in touch with thought leaders in software development and architecture. He is editor in chief of the German speaking Java Magazin and program chair of the JAX conferences since 2001. Prior to joining S&S Media, he studied philosophy and anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany.

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