Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is Council Chairperson of the Commonhaus Foundation and a Java Champion. She's a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, with 25+ years as a developer, architect, and technical leader. She prefers being hands-on with code and learns by building interesting (and often ridiculous) things, like "Monster Combat" (https://github.com/ebullient/monster-combat), an application that made monsters fight each other to explore application metrics, or "Pockets" (https://github.com/ebullient/pockets-cli), a command-line app that used JPA and Camel for RPG inventory management.
