Richard Fichtner is the Principal Software Architect at XDEV Software GmbH, with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He works at the intersection of business and technology and is a strong advocate for best practices in modern Java development. Richard is passionate about sharing knowledge on Java technologies, making him a frequent and highly rated conference speaker. He is the founder and leader of the Java User Group Oberpfalz and co-organizes the JCON conferences. JCON EUROPE brings together the worldwide Java community from more than 60 countries. Richard has been recognized as a Java Champion, Oracle ACE...
Simon Ritter is the Deputy CTO of Azul Systems. 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. Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition, he managed the Java Evangelism team for the core Java platform, Java for client applications and embedded Java. Now at Azul, he continues to help people understand Java as well as...
Jeanne Boyarsky is a Java Champion from New York City and has been a Java developer for more than 21 years. She has co-authored Wiley's Oracle Java 8/11/17/21/25 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.
Billy is a Java Developer Advocate with the Java Platform Group at Oracle. With over a decade of experience in Java, Billy brings a passion for helping developers find ways to reduce tedious work, such as project initiation, deployment, testing, and validation, through automation and adopting the latest features and tools in the Java ecosystem. Outside of work, Billy enjoys traveling, playing kickball, and cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs. Billy also co-organizes the Kansas City Java users group.
Staff Software Engineer @LinkedIn | Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kubernetes & Service Mesh, Reliability and Performance Engineering Abhishek Bharadwaj is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn specializing in large-scale distributed systems, service discovery and reliability. Across his career at LinkedIn and Microsoft, he has designed and operated critical infrastructure serving millions of requests per second across thousands of services. His work spans performance engineering, service mesh and distributed infrastructure, with a focus on building systems that stay reliable as they evolve at scale. When he's not thinking about distributed systems, he's probably hiking somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.