Steve Poole is a Developer Advocate, DevOps practitioner (whatever that means), long-time IBM Java developer, leader and evangelist. He has been working on IBM Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than one year old. He also found time to work on other things including representing IBM on various JSRs and being a committer on various open source projects including ones at Apache, Eclipse and OpenJDK. He is also a member of the Adopt OpenJDK group championing community involvement in OpenJDK, and a seasoned speaker and regular presenter at JavaOne and other conferences on technical and software engineering topics.