Dan Allen is a member of the Seam and Weld project teams at JBoss by Red Hat, the author of Seam in Action, a representative on the JSR-314 (JSF 2.0) expert group, and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, TSSJS, Jazoon and NFJS. In 2009 he was awarded the the JavaOne Rock Star award. Dan become deeply involved in Free and Open Source software (FOSS), namely Linux and Java enterprise frameworks, shortly after graduating from Cornell University. His passion for these technologies continue to drive him today. You can keep up with his discoveries by subscribing to his blogs (http://mojavelinux.com and http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Dan) or following him on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mojavelinux).

2010-02-17T05:24:08Z

Dan

Allen

2010-02-17T05:31:37Z

Jason is the Director of Product Development, responsible for the nuBridges Protect product line which helps address the problem of securing data at rest. Previously, Jason was a Principal Architect at both nuBridges and at a very large local airline. He is a Certified Scrum Master, although is still a developer at heart. He has 10 years experience in designing, building and delivering JavaTM based solutions and products and 20 years overall software development experience.

2010-01-13T03:57:03Z

Jason

Chambers

2010-01-26T03:38:41Z

An electrical engineer by training, Chandler got hooked on developing database Web applications in the days of NCSA Mosaic and hasn't looked back since. He has written Web applications professionally in a variety of languages, including C, perl, ksh, ColdFusion, Java, JSF, and GWT. Chandler holds a patent on a method of organizing hierarchical data in a relational database and writes the popular Java Web development blog TurboManage.

2010-01-11T04:06:28Z

David

Chandler

2010-01-23T22:13:06Z

Charlie Collins is a software engineer and author. Charlie has over 12 years of experience with Java and is interested in many areas of Java development including: SE, EE, mobile and embedded, and alternative languages on the JVM. Charlie is the co-author of GWT in Practice, and Unlocking Android. Charlie has also been an ardent open source supporter for many years and has contributed documentation and patches for several open source projects.

2010-01-28T04:42:45Z

Charlie

Collins

2010-01-28T04:52:41Z

Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring and a division of VMware. At SpringSource, Keith is a full-time member of the Spring development team focusing on web application development productivity. He is also the architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical Spring training to over 10,000 students worldwide. Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, retail, and healthcare. He is particularly skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions.

2010-01-13T04:48:14Z

Keith

Donald

2010-02-09T01:54:46Z

Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Check out his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.

2010-01-13T04:55:41Z

Neal

Ford

2010-01-23T22:15:46Z

Daniel Gredler is a development lead at DHL Global Mail, where he focuses on custom shipping solutions. He is a committer to the HtmlUnit and Apache Tapestry projects, and has contributed to a number of other open source projects. In his free time, Daniel enjoys reading, metal detecting, and writing conference bios about himself.

2010-01-11T02:16:27Z

Daniel

Gredler

2010-02-01T05:48:08Z

Arun Gupta is a GlassFish Evangelist working at Sun Microsystems. He has over 13 years of experience in the software industry working in various technologies, Java(TM) platform, and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works very closely to create and foster the community around GlassFish. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other companies. He has been with the Java EE team since it’s inception and 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 visitors from all over the world reaching up to 25,000 hits/day.

2010-02-10T02:48:12Z

Arun

Gupta

2010-02-11T00:43:14Z

Wesley Hales is the JBoss Portlet Bridge project lead and is a core developer on the GateIn and RichFaces projects. He is a member of the Expert Group for the JSR-301 and 329 specifications and is currently an open source committer on various JBoss, Mozilla, and Apache projects. Wesley has been a local Java developer in the Atlanta area for the past 10 years. He understands the integration problems of most IT/Java shops when it come to POC'ing and proving new frameworks, so he tries his best to ease developers of this burden by using best-of-breed techniques and practices.

2010-01-11T02:16:27Z

Wesley

Hales

2010-02-02T01:51:09Z

Barry Hawkins has played various roles in his 13 years in the software industry, from lone developer to team lead to Agile coach and mentor. Barry is one of the few native Atlantans, currently specializing in coaching and mentoring for Agile software development. Over the years, he has developed on several platforms, including Microsoft and Java as well as several other less-annoying technologies. Barry has also participated as a package maintainer for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. When not working or doing things with his family, he can usually be found playing Lord of The Rings Online, and formerly, World of Warcraft. He also sporadically blogs at http://www.yepthatsme.com.

2010-01-13T04:17:25Z

Barry

Hawkins

2010-02-02T05:44:05Z

Burk Hufnagel has been creating positive user experiences since 1978 as a Software Architect and Developer. As someone who spends most of his life designing and crafting software, Burk has made a habit of developing practical solutions for difficult problems. He is a bibliophile, a technophile, and tends to appreciate esoteric subjects. Burk was one of the contributors to "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know", and the new book "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know". He spoke at JavaOne 2008 on building better user experiences, and at the International Association of Software Architect's IT Architecture Regional Conference in 2007 and 2009, and authored a paper for the IASA Skills Library on the not-so-subtle connection between user interface design and user experience.

2010-02-01T05:41:41Z

Burk

Hufnagel

2010-02-01T05:46:53Z

Greg founded Ehcache in 2003. He regularly speaks at conferences, writes and codes. He has also founded and maintains the JPam and Spnego open source projects, which are security focused. Prior to joining Terracotta in 2009, Greg was Chief Architect at Wotif.com where he provided technical leadership as the company went from a single product startup to a billion dollar public company with multiple product lines. Before that Greg was a consultant for ThoughtWorks with engagements in the US and Australia in the travel, health care, geospatial, banking and insurance industries. Before doing programming, Greg managed IT. He was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts. He is a Chartered Accountant, and spent 7 years with KPMG in small business and insolvency. Greg holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Masters in Information Technology.

2010-01-25T00:16:21Z

Greg

Luck

2010-01-26T03:38:15Z

Edwin Marcial is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Technology Officer for the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Mr. Marcial has over 17 years of experience in the technology industry architecting and developing software systems. His experiences include 4 years working with Harris Energy Control Systems division where he was part of a team developing state-of-the-art distributed energy management systems. He joined Continental Power Exchange (CPEX) in 1996 and in 1998 his technical vision led to the design of an Internet based distributed commodity trading system that would evolve to become the ICE trading platform. In 2000, CPEX became the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and the ICE Trading System was launched. Today Mr. Marcial leads a team of very talented technologists as they continue to enhance the ICE’s core trading, clearing and data systems and build new applications for the advancement of the Intercontinental Exchange. In 2007, Mr. Marcial was named the Georgia Corporate CIO of the Year, and in 2009 he was named as one of InfoWorld’s top 25 CTOs. Mr. Marcial holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida’s College of Engineering.

2010-01-13T04:45:05Z

Edwin

Marcial

2010-02-02T01:50:36Z

Pratik Patel wrote the first book on 'enterprise Java' in 1996, "Java Database Programming with JDBC." He has also spoken at various conferences such as the No Fluff tour and SpringOne. He also runs the ATL2G (Atlanta Groovy & Grails User group). Pratik's specialty is in large-scale Java applications for mission-critical use. He has designed and built enterprise applications in the retail, health care, financial services, and telecoms sectors. Pratik holds a master's in Biomedical Engineering from UNC, has worked in places such as New York, London, and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

2010-01-13T04:19:50Z

Pratik

Patel

2010-01-25T03:49:43Z

Since starting at Georgia Tech in 1996, Chris Ramsdale has lived and worked in the Atlanta area for the past 13 years. Working in the mobile space with local companies such as Motorola, AppForge, and Air2Web, Chris has held positions as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, and Product Manager. His current endeavor is working within Google's Developer Relations team to help educate and advocate Google Web Toolkit.

2010-01-11T03:58:26Z

Chris

Ramsdale

2010-01-25T03:55:05Z

Toby Reyelts is a software engineer at Google who specializes in the JVM. He is a co-creator of App Engine for Java and a member of the Google Web Toolkit team. He has also authored open-source projects, such as the popular Retroweaver. Toby is at his happiest when he can make things both simple and fast.

2010-02-09T05:55:00Z

Toby

Reyelts

2010-02-10T02:45:55Z

Dr. Alexander Spoon has been involved in the development of a wide variety of programming language research projects, ranging from dynamic languages like Scheme and Squeak to statically typed languages like Scala. He currently works on the compiler of the Google Web Toolkit, which converts Java code to JavaScript for running in web browsers. He previously worked two years as a post-doc at EPFL on Scala.

2010-01-13T04:28:34Z

Lex

Spoon

2010-01-23T22:14:47Z

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He helps his clients succeed with Agile Development and various software technologies. He is a frequent invited speaker at various international software conferences and a regular at the No Fluff Just Stuff conference series. He's author of .NET Gotchas (O'Reilly), co-author of the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer, and author of Programming Groovy and Programming Scala (all from Pragmatic Bookshelf).

2010-01-11T02:16:27Z

Venkat

Subramaniam

2010-01-23T22:14:22Z

Rick Thomas, is an entrepreneur focused on the strategic design of cooperative work. His goal is "better language" from a fundamental perspective as well as in new media practice. In the 1980’s Mr. Thomas was a software engineer and manager on projects including avionics testing and manufacturing automation. His special interest in tools for project management led him to attend the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in 1986. In 1987 he was program chairman for the IEEE Conference on Engineering Management, which emphasized the CSCW theme. In the 1990’s Mr. Thomas applied these ideas by developing collaboration software for project and sales organizations, and later for interactive video language learning and other multimedia projects. In the 2000’s his work has been to explore the design possibilities at the intersection of three fields: 1) the natural history of language, its biology and its future, 2) applied language for management and decision making, and 3) modern media for language including internet culture, standards and applications. He is a Management Advisor to Evenview, which develops and places creative teams, and has developed a course in Managerial Decision Making at the College of Business at Georgia State University. He is active in the Atlanta technical community where he presents on Google Wave as a platform for innovation. Education: MSEE 1976, BSEE 1975, Georgia Institute of Technology. MBA 1979, Georgia State University.

2010-01-13T04:47:05Z

Rick

Thomas

2010-01-23T22:18:54Z

Jason van Zyl is the Founder and CTO of Sonatype, the leader in Java development infrastructure whose customers include Intuit, Cisco, Qualcomm, Vanguard and E*Trade. Jason has over 10 years of experience in open source and proprietary enterprise software development. An open source enthusiast, Jason is the founder of the Apache Maven project, and the original benefactor of the Nexus and M2Eclipse projects. Jason currently serves as Chair of the Apache Maven Project Management Committee. He has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for seven years, helped to found Codehaus, a well respected incubation facility for open source community projects, and is a frequent speaker at many major software conferences, including JavaOne, EclipseCon, EmergingTech, and ApacheCon.

2010-01-11T02:16:27Z

Jason

van Zyl

2010-02-02T01:48:02Z

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of it's frameworks beginning in the late 90's. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

2010-01-11T02:16:27Z

James

Ward

2010-01-24T23:17:37Z