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Our Selected Speakers
The decision which proposal to pick is never easy. Hereto the selected speakers for our coming online conference.
Sergio is the Micronaut Development Lead Engineer at the Micronaut Foundation. Sergio is a member of the Micronaut Foundation Board Of Directors and the Micronaut Technology Advisory Board. Additionally, he is a member of the GraalVM Advisory Board.
Geetha is a Staff Solutions Architect helping entreprise business in the data management and infrastructure+ application modernization space for the past decade.
Marián Varga is a freelance software engineer with over 20 years of professional experience. In his work he connects software systems as well as the people involved. He publishes his thoughts on his blog dastalvi.com/blog and is a co-author of an upcoming book about REST APIs with Java.
Ivan Yonkov is the CEO of the software consultancy Codexio and has been proactively preaching Java to the community for a decade. Besides being a software developer for more than 10 years, he’s also a professional software and technical trainer with various presences in formal universities and was once a Training Director at the biggest software academy in the Balkans – SoftUni. This experience is mostly evident at Codexio, where three internship training camps per year are organized. Ivan loves to dig every bit of hidden code, especially in Java, thus they call him a Javarchaelogist.
Fabio is a software Engineer offering over 12 years in the IT industry with a focus on software architecture and development. Oracle Certified Professional and Specialist in Java SE and EE platforms. Currently working as Service manager and developer advocate at Payara Services Limited, working all things Jakarta EE and MicroProfile related. Likes to present talks about modern tech topics for developers and architects DevOps topics, Enterprise Java, and microservices.
Steve is an Experienced JVM and Java Developer, Developer Advocate, DevOps Leader, and Security Champion with expertise in software supply chain security, AI, public speaking, education, and writing. Steve is also an open-source contributor and a regular presenter at international technical conferences. Formerly with IBM and RedHat, with extensive experience in operating systems, JVMs, and AI. Steve is a Sci-fi lover, robot builder, and occasional mad scientist. Steve has been working with Java since its early days.
Hugh McKee is a skilled back-end developer and developer advocate with decades of experience building enterprise applications. Specializing in large-scale, cloud-based systems, Hugh is dedicated to learning new technologies and sharing his knowledge with others. As a developer advocate, he speaks at conferences worldwide and is the author of “Designing Reactive Systems: The Role Of Actors In Distributed Architecture.” With a passion for teaching and evolving his software engineering skills, Hugh is a valuable contributor to the tech community.
Andres Sacco has been a developer since 2007 in different languages, including Java, PHP, NodeJs, Scala, and Kotlin. His background is mainly in Java and the libraries or frameworks associated with this language. In most of the companies he worked for, he researched new technologies to improve the performance, stability, and quality of the applications of each company.
Birgit is a freelancing software developer and consultant with more than 20 years experience in the Java ecosystem. Her domain, as well as her passion, is using agile development methods and spreading the software-crafting ideas. This is why she is a co-organizer of the German software crafting community (Softwerkskammer) events in Cologne and Düsseldorf for many years now. And she helps to organize the SoCraTes conference in Germany (Software Crafting and Testing Conference). To balance her job activities, she rides her road bike quite extensively.
Jennifer Reif is a Developer Advocate at Neo4j, speaker, and blogger with an MS in CMIS. An avid developer and problem-solver, she has worked with many businesses and projects to organize and make sense of widespread data assets and leverage them for maximum business value. She has expertise in a variety of commercial and open source tools, and she enjoys learning new technologies, sometimes on a daily basis! Her passion is finding ways to organize chaos and deliver software more effectively.
Haim Michael started coding when he was 8 years old. During the years 2001 – 2007, Haim led the development of more than 200 applications and games for mobile telephones, together with their complementary server-side applications. Haim focuses on programming languages, and his rich knowledge and experience in Java programming span more than 25 years. Haim is a PHP Zend Certified Engineer, OMG-Certified UML Professional, Certified Java Professional, and a Certified Java EE Web Components Developer. In addition, Haim Michael holds an MBA (cum-laude) from Tel Aviv University.
Our Selected Panelists
The decision who to select for the professional panel wasn’t easy. Hereto the selected panelists for our coming XtremeJ 2024 online conference.
With 20 years of experience, Victor is a Java Champion who dedicated his career to training and inspiring thousands of engineers in over 150 companies worldwide. Based on the lessons learned from the trenches, he gave many top-rated talks at conferences in Europe and online. You can meet Victor online at his monthly events for European Software Crafters, the world’s largest community on improving code quality. If you are interested in first-class training services, consultancy, and free videos, check out https://victorrentea.ro.
Mary is a Java Champion, and the AI Practice Lead at Callibrity, a consulting firm based in Ohio. She started as an engineer in Unix/C, then transitioned to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. After 20+ years of being a software engineer and technical architect, she discovered her true passion in developer and customer advocacy. Most recently she has serviced companies of various sizes such as IBM, US Cellular, Bank of America, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in topic areas that included Java, GenAI, Streaming systems, Open source, Cloud and Distributed messaging systems. She is also a very active tech community leader outside of her day job. She is the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), and the Chicago Chapter Co-Lead for AICamp.
Tomasz Manugiewicz is the General Manager of the Polish engineering hub of the global software company Evoke. An engineer at heart. A speaker by passion. He worked as an Engineering Manager and, at the beginning of his path, when he was a Java Engineer, he helped to create the first Polish online banking systems. He also worked for international global corporations, including in the banking and ICT telecom sectors. Tomasz is an Agile enthusiast and coach – conducted his first Agile Transformation in 2009. Tomasz is an author of “Executive Agile” book about introducing organizational transformations – going public in fall 2024. He is also a co-author of the leadership book “The LiGHT BOOK2 – Leaders’ insights for leaders based on true stories”. At the AGH University of Technology, he is a lecturer, supporting young engineers on their way to the world of IT.
Andres Sacco has been a developer since 2007 in different languages, including Java, PHP, NodeJs, Scala, and Kotlin. His background is mainly in Java and the libraries or frameworks associated with this language. In most of the companies he worked for, he researched new technologies to improve the performance, stability, and quality of the applications of each company.
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