Speaker Lineup
With an attendee to speaker ratio of 9:1 - TSSJS is the only Java conference where you have a real opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the speakers. The speaker lineup at TSSJS is stocked with renowned experts, spec leads, go-to bloggers, best-selling authors, and industry insiders.
Browse our impressive speaker lineup, or select a name to view his/her bio and session title(s).
Breakout Session Speakers
Ben Alex, Founder and Lead Developer, Spring Security Project
Presenting: Web Security Success with Spring Security 2
Ben is Interface21’s Regional Director Australasia, and has over 12 years of experience architecting, developing and managing enterprise application solutions. During his career, Ben has been extensively involved in all aspects of software development using both Java and Microsoft platforms, and his experience covers a range of sectors, ranging from small startups through to large government and corporate environments.
Ben has been a user and core contributor to the Spring Framework since mid-2003. In addition, Ben is founder and lead developer of the Spring Security (also known as Acegi Security) project. He is a developer on the Spring Rich Client project, and has also authored several Spring training modules and books, including the security chapter of "Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework". Ben is also an active participant on the Spring forums, having answered over 2,000 questions from Spring users. He regularly speaks at international conferences and user group meetings about security and application architecture topics, and has delivered Interface21 training courses throughout Australasia, UK and USA.
Shay Banon, Founder, Compass open source project
Presenting: Enterprise Search with Compass
Co-Presenting: Beyond a DataGrid (Fireside Chat) with Nati Shalom
Shay is the founder of the Compass open source project, a unique solution enabling search capabilities into any application model. Shay started working on mission-critical real time C/C++ systems, later moving to Java. Within the Java world, Shay has worked on an implementation of a distributed rule engine (RETE) server, your typical Java-based web projects, and messaging-based projects within the financial industry. Currently, Shay is a System Architect at GigaSpaces and the founder of the Compass open source project, a unique solution enabling search capabilities in any application model.
Thomas Bernhardt, Founder & Project Lead, Esper
Presenting: Event Processing in Java - A Financial Services Case Study
Thomas Bernhardt is founder and project lead of the Esper open source project and founder/CEO of EsperTech. Thomas is regularly architecting event-driven software systems at major financial institutions. He has more than 20 years of experience in software.
Geert Bevin, Sun Java Champion; Creator, RIFE Application Framework
Presenting: OpenLaszlo: From RIA to Ajax and Mobile and Boldly Go Where the Java Language Has Never Gone Before
Geert is a developer at Terracotta Inc., the CEO and founder of Uwyn, and the creator of the RIFE project, which provides a full-stack Java Web application framework for quickly building maintainable applications. He both started and/or contributed to open-source projects like Bla-bla List, OpenLaszlo, Drone, JavaPaste, Bamboo, Elephant, RelativeLayers, and Gentoo Linux.
Jeremy Boynes, Founder, Apache Geronimo; Independent Consultant
Co-Presenting: Next Generation Payment Systems Using SCA (Service Component Architecture) with Meeraj Kunnumpurath and Jim Marino
Jeremy Boynes is an independent consultant and has been involved with SCA technology right from inception. Jeremy is a founding member of Fabric3 and has been involved and led a number of successful open source projects including JBoss and Geronimo. He is currently working as an architectural consultant at Voca.
Don Brown, Team Lead, Hosted Services, Atlassian Software
Presenting: RESTful Applications with Struts 2
Panelist: Java Web Framework Smackdown
Don has a background in the commercial and US Department of Defense sectors. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has been a Struts committer since 2003. He has co-authored the book, Struts 2 in Action by Manning Publications.
Ed Burns, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun; Co-spec lead, JavaServer Faces
Panelist: MapReduce: Why Does it Matter? and Wherefore the Surface Tier?
Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces.
Dennis Byrne, Iteration Manager, ThoughtWorks
Presenting: Concurrent Programming with Java and Erlang and Antipatterns and Pitfalls in JSF
Dennis Byrne is currently working in the Bay Area as an iteration manager for ThoughtWorks, a global consultancy with a focus on end-to-end agile software development. Dennis is a committer and PMC member for Apache Myfaces. He is also a committer for JBoss JSFUnit, and currently co-authoring MyFaces and Facelets (Apress publishing).
Eugene Ciurana, Director of Systems Infrastructure, LeapFrog Enterprises
Track Host: The Visionary
Panel Moderator : MapReduce: Why Does It Matter?
Presenting: Son of SOA: Resource-Oriented Computing and Event Driven Architectures and Fast Mission-Critical Deployment at LeapFrog Enterprises (Fireside Chat)
Eugene Ciurana is the Director of Systems Infrastructure for LeapFrog Enterprises, the largest educational toy company in the United States. Eugene is also a contributing editor to TheServerSide.com. In 2006, he led the first-time adoption of Linux and other open-source technologies at Wal-Mart Stores Information Systems Division as chief liaison between Walmart.com Global and the ISD Technology Council.
Eugene has contributed to Java, Linux, and OS X open-source projects and has architected main line of business applications, embedded platforms, and real-time systems for the largest companies in the world, including Wal-Mart, Bank One/Chase, National Oilwell Varco, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Univex/Celanese, Nexis/Lexis, etc. He's the author of over 50 feature articles and editorials about technology and computer programming topics for such publications as TheServerSide, Software Guru, Informatique!, Computerworld, EE Times, Byte, PC/Tips, and OMNI, and is writing a book about the Mule ESB.
Cliff Click, Chief JVM Architect, Azul Systems
Co-Presenting: Azul Systems Tech Brief: Next Generation Performance Monitoring Tool with Brian Goetz
With more than twenty-five years experience developing compilers, Cliff serves as Azul Systems' Chief JVM Architect. Cliff joined Azul in 2002 from Sun Microsystems where he was the architect and lead developer of the HotSpot Server Compiler, a technology that has delivered dramatic improvements in Java performance since its inception. Previously, he was with Motorola where he helped deliver industry leading SpecInt2000 scores on PowerPC chips, and before that he researched compiler technology at HP Labs.
Cliff has been writing optimizing compilers and JITs for over 15 years. He serves on the Program Committee of many conferences (including PLDI and OOPSLA); and has published many papers about HotSpot technology. Cliff holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University.
Frank Cohen, Founder and CEO, PushToTest; Author, FastSOA, Java Testing & Design: From Unit Testing to Automated Web Tests, and more
Presenting: Unit Testing in Java and Dynamic Scripting
Through his speaking, writing and consulting, Frank Cohen is the expert that information technology professionals and enterprises go to when they need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Ajax, and Web services. Frank is Founder of PushToTest, the open-source test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source project. PushToTest customers include Jackson Labs, eBay, General Motors, TIBCO, BEA, Microsoft and other Fortune 1000 companies. Frank is the author of several books, including FastSOA, The Way to Use Native XML Technology to Build Scalable Service Oriented Architecture, and Java Testing and Design. For the past 25 years he has developed and marketed some of the software industry's most successful products, including Norton Utilities for the Macintosh, Stacker, and SoftWindows.
Holly Cummins, Tooling developer, IBM Java Technology Centre
Presenting: Java Performance Tooling
Holly is a tooling developer within the IBM Java Technology Centre. She is the author of the GC and Memory Visualizer tool and leads development on a number of other tools. Her tooling work builds on her experience working as a performance engineer within the garbage collection development team. Holly has been with IBM for six years. Before joining IBM, she completed a doctorate in quantum computation at the University of Oxford.
Glen Daniels, Director of Java Platforms, WSO2; VP of Web Services, Apache Software Foundation
Presenting: The Social Enterprise - A Web 2.0-style Registry for Java Service Development
Glen has over 20 years of industry experience writing code, leading teams, and building standards. He has been deeply involved with Web Services since 2000, and spearheaded Apache's Axis project. He serves as WSO2's Director of Java Platforms and VP, Web Services at the Apache Software Foundation.
John Davies, Technical Director and Head of Research, IONA
Presenting: Extreme Transaction Processing, Low Latency and Performance
John Davies is a veteran speaker on global-scale enterprise architectures and high performance computing. John has nearly 30 years in IT from hardware through assembler, C, C++ to Java. Working mostly in investment banking, John has held several global architecture roles in the world's largest banks. John was CTO and co-founder of C24, a company specializing in complex integration (SWIFT, FpML, ISO-20022 etc.). C24 was recently sold to IONA, where John is now their Technical Director and Head of Research.
Scott Davis, Author and Editor-in-Chief of aboutGroovy.com
Presenting: Metaprogramming (Or: The Groovy Way to Blow a Buttoned-Down Java Developer’s Mind), Grails for Struts Developers: A Groovy Alternative and Groovy, Grails, and Google Maps: Mashups 101
Panelist: Java Web Framework Smackdown
Scott is an internationally recognized author, speaker and software developer. His books include Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Application, The Google Maps API, and JBoss At Work. He is the Editor-in-Chief of aboutGroovy.com.
Dan Diephouse, Software Architect, MuleSource
Co-Presenting: Pragmatic Web Service Solutions (Fireside Chat) with Ryan Heaton
Dan Diephouse is a software architect at MuleSource, the company behind the open source Mule ESB. Here he is focused on building and helping others build open source web services/SOA solutions. He is a co-founder of the Web services framework Apache CXF, a founder of several other projects including XFire, SXC and Jettison, a committer on Apache Abdera, and participates in several others whenever possible
Keith Donald, Co-founder and Principal at SpringSource, Inc.
Presenting: Spring for JavaServer Faces
Panelist: Java Web Framework Smackdown
Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource. Currently, he serves as the lead of SpringSource's Web Application Development Products Team. His team, based in Melbourne, Florida, builds products that support the design, implementation, and roll out of Java-based web applications worldwide. Keith's customers include Orbitz Worldwide, Accenture, and the European Patent Office, among other Fortune 500 companies.
Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise application developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, and retail. He is particularly adept at translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Jeff Dwyer, Author, Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT
Presenting: Real GWT Applications (Fireside Chat)
Jeff Dwyer is a developer and entrepreneur who is the founder of ToCollege.net and MyHippocampus.com. He is also the author of Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT. Jeff's background is in medical software and application design. Jeff likes nothing better than leveraging high quality open source code so he can focus on the core elements of his projects and he believes that GWT has fundamentally altered the feasibility of large Web 2.0 applications.
John Fallows, CTO/co-founder, Kaazing Corp.
Co-Presenting: The Scalability Pitfall of the Real-Time Web (And How to Fix It) with Jonas Jacobi
John Fallows is a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces and co-founder of Kaazing Corporation. In his role as chief technology officer, John formulates Kaazing Corporation's vision of creating the best real-time Web framework based on the Java standard. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development.
Originally from Northern Ireland, John graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for more than ten years. He recently worked as Architect at Brane Corporation, a startup company based in Redwood City, California. Prior to joining Brane, John was a Consulting Member of Technical Staff for Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation. During his last 5 years at Oracle, John focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate Ajax technologies.
John has written several articles for leading IT magazines such as Java Developer's Journal, AjaxWorld Magazine, and JavaMagazine (DE), and is a popular speaker at international conferences. Mr. Fallows is co-author of the recently published book, Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components (Apress).
Neal Ford,
Author, Art of Java Web Development; Senior Application Architect, ThoughtWorks
Presenting a Keynote: Language-Oriented Programming: Shifting Paradigms
Neal Ford is a senior application architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, author of 3 books, including Art of Java Web Development (Manning 2003). He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developer conferences worldwide.
David Geary, Author, Core JavaServer Faces, Google Web Toolkit Solutions, and more
Presenting: Introduction to Seam and JavaServer Faces 2.0
Panelist: Java Web Framework Smackdown
David is a prominent author, speaker and consultant who wrote the bestselling books for Java's component frameworks: Swing (Graphic Java) and JSF (Core JSF). David has written eight Java books, served on the JSTL and JSF Expert Groups, was the second Struts committer, wrote questions for Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam, and was twice voted a JavaOne Rock Star. David is president of Clarity Training, Inc.
Justin Gehtland, Author, Pragmatic Ajax and more
Track Host: The Presentation Tier
Panel Moderator: Wherefore the Surface Tier?
Presenting: Modern JavaScript: Code Standards and Patterns and Ajax Framework Comparison
With Streamlined Framework co-founder, Stuart Halloway, Justin helps enterprises adopt emerging best practices such as Ruby on Rails. Stuart and Justin founded the Streamlined Framework (www.streamlinedframework.org), and co-authored Rails for Java Developers. Justin is also the author of Pragmatic Ajax, Better, Faster, Lighter Java, and several other books. Prior to founding Relevance, Justin was the Director of Information Services at DevelopMentor.
Ted Goddard, Senior Architect, ICEsoft Technologies
Presenting: Advanced Ajax with Seam and Spring Web Flow
Ted is a Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies, and is the technical lead for ICEfaces product development. Ted has been involved with Java for his entire career, and has recently focused on R&D related to Ajax and JSF. Prior to ICEsoft, Ted was involved with various Java technologies at Sun Microsystems, AudeSi Technologies, and Wind River Systems. Ted received his Ph.D in Mathematics in 1996, answering open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, and proceeded with post-doctoral research in component and web-based collaborative technologies.
Brian Goetz, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Presenting: Java Performance Myths (Or, "How do JVMs really work?") and Concurrency: Past and Present
Co-presenting: Performance Puzzlers with Kirk Pepperdine and Azul Systems Tech Brief: Next Generation Performance Monitoring Tool with Cliff Click
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for the past 20 years. He is the author of Java Concurrency in Practice (Addison-Wesley, 2006), and has published over 60 articles on software development including a monthly column in IBM developerWorks, "Java Theory and Practice." He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 107 (Java caching API) and 166 (java.util.concurrent).
Arun Gupta, Sun Technology Evangelist for Web Services
Presenting: Rails Powered by GlassFish and jMaki
Arun Gupta is a Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Apps at Sun Microsystems. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple open source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to multiple Java EE and SE releases. He is a prolific blogger with numerous useful tips.
Mark Hansen, Ph.D., Author, SOA Using Java Web Services
Track Host: From "Market"ecture to Architecture (SOA)
Presenting: Building RESTful Web Services with the JAX-RS API and Building SOA Applications with JAX-WS, JAXB, and Ajax
Mark is the author of SOA Using Java Web Services and is also the founder and president of AgileIT – a company creating virtualization software for SOAs. Mark is a content developer for Project GlassFish and a member of the JAX-RS (JSR-311) expert group. Earlier in his career, Mark was an MIT visiting scholar and a successful entrepreneur who sold his eBusiness consulting firm to PSINet in 1999. Mark earned his Ph.D. from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
Ryan Heaton, Senior Software Engineer, FamilySearch.org
Co-Presenting: Pragmatic Web Service Solutions (Fireside Chat) with Dan Diephouse
Ryan is the engineer of Enunciate, an open source Web service development framework that publishes service interfaces as Web service endpoints of different formats, including SOAP, REST, and GWT-RPC. Ryan is currently a senior software engineer for FamilySearch.org, involved in developing a public Web service API for an open online genealogical database. Ryan is also the father of four boys and currently resides in Salt Lake City.
Nick Heudecker, Author, Hibernate Quickly
Presenting: Architecting Applications with Apache Wicket
Panelist: Java Web Framework Smackdown
Nick Heudecker is the principal and founder of System Mobile, a software development consultancy in Chicago. He has been working with Web technologies since 1999 and has developed applications for several Fortune 100 clients.
Jason Hunter, Author, Java Servlet Programming
Presenting: HTTP for Web Developers
Jason specializes in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He's the author of Java Servlet Programming (O'Reilly Media) and the creator of the JDOM open source project for Java-optimized XML manipulation. He's also an Apache Member and served several years as Apache's representative on the Java Community Process Executive Committee, and was an original contributor to Apache Tomcat. His latest project is an email search service called MarkMail. MarkMail is a community-focused searchable message archive, developed and hosted by Mark Logic Corporation. It provides end users with powerful search and discovery tools for finding answers and understanding activity in popular mailing lists, such as those used by open source projects.
Jonas Jacobi, CEO/co-founder, Kaazing Corp.
Co-Presenting: The Scalability Pitfall of the Real-Time Web (And How to Fix It) with John Fallows
As co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaazing Corporation, Jonas Jacobi sets the company's business strategy and oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become the world-wide leader in real-time software.
A native of Sweden, he has worked in the software industry for more than fifteen years. Before starting Kaazing, Jonas worked as VP of Product Management responsible for the product management and marketing strategy for Brane Corporation, a startup company in Silicon Valley. Prior to his appointment as vice president for Brane, he worked 8 years for Oracle as a Java EE and open source evangelist, and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team.
Jonas is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has written numerous articles for leading IT magazines such as Java Developer's Journal, JavaPro, AjaxWorld, and Oracle Magazine. Jonas is co-author of the recently published book, Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components (Apress).
Rod Johnson, Spring Framework founder, Author,
Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development & J2EE without EJB
Presenting: Spring Portfolio: New and Notable
Rod is the father of Spring and is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002) was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE. The sequel, J2EE without EJB (July 2004, with Juergen Hoeller), has proven almost equally significant, establishing a comprehensive vision for lightweight, post-EJB J2EE development.
Rod currently serves in the JCP on the Expert Groups defining the Java EE 6, Servlet 2.4 and JDO 2.0 specifications. His status as a leader in the Java community has been recognized through his invitation to Sun's Java Champions program. Rod continues to be actively involved in client projects at SpringSource, as well as Spring development, writing and evangelism.
Shane Johnson, Senior Consultant, CityTech, Inc.
Presenting: Building an Intranet Portal: Web Content Management & Integration
Shane Johnson, a Senior Consultant with CityTech, Inc., has spent the last few years focused on aspects of enterprise integration, content management and business process modeling. CityTech is a progressive consultancy providing forward-thinking solutions to organizations by deploying experienced agile development teams.
Shane has implemented Web content management based solutions, built custom portals, modeled advanced workflows, and engaged in Web service performance tuning and orchestration for the government, healthcare, and retail industries. He has been instrumental in introducing open source projects to his clients alongside existing proprietary products effectively.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Presenting: High Performance SOA: How to Use the Metro Web Service Stack to Build Fast, Scalable Services
Kohsuke Kawaguchi is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. Since 2001, Kohsuke has been working on Web services and XML, in particular schema languages, JAXB, JAX-WS, Metro, and JAXP. His recent work includes GlassFish v3 and the architecture design of Metro, a web service stack. He also hosts many projects on java.net, including Hudson.
Aslam Khan, Technical Director, PBT Group
Presenting: Enterprise Application Development with OSGi at Statistics South Africa
Aslam Khan is the technical director of PBT Group, a leading software consultancy based in South Africa with clients in South Africa, Australia, Middle East and Central Africa. His time is divided between mentorship, architecture and software development. His focus is on the field of enterprise applications, web applications, object-oriented programming and software design.
He has almost 17 years of professional experience covering diverse areas including UML, Design Patterns, Agile Methodologies, C, C++, Java, Ruby, Service Oriented Architecture, Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development. In this, he has intimately worked with large corporations in the insurance, retail, online media, telecommunications, government and statistics sectors to architect and design enterprise class applications.
He is passionate about the social dynamics in software development teams and holds the philosophy that software development is, firstly, a social exercise and, secondly, a technical exercise.
Currently, he is the architect for a three year project for Statistics South Africa where he is responsible for the architecture, design, development and implementation of the next generation of statistical production systems for South Africa. Aslam holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and a diploma in Business Management.
Meeraj Kunnumpurath, Lead Technologist, Voca
Co-Presenting: Next Generation Payment Systems Using SCA (Service Component Architecture) with Jeremy Boynes and Jim Marino
Meeraj Kunnumpurath works as the Lead Technologist for Voca and drives Voca’s technology strategy. He is a founding member of Fabric3 and also participates in the Oasis technical committees for the various SCA specifications.
Alex Lee, GIS expert; Product Evangelist, Pitney Bowes Software
Presenting: MapInfo Tech Brief: Powerful Location Intelligence Capabilities for Java Developers
Alex has been the lead in the design, architecture and development of numerous commercial Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and GeoSpatial software since 1982. His work involved client/server technology in the 80's, scripting languages and distributed object computing in the early 90's, and, currently, J2EE and Web Services in Services-Oriented Architecture. Alex received his Java 2 Platform Developer Certification in 1999. His first work experience with Java was JDK1.0.3, a map rendering engine built on an early version of Graphics 2D.
Patrick Linskey, EJB & JPA Team Lead, BEA
Track Host: Checkpoints (Persistence)
Presenting: Designing for Scalability and JPA 2.0
Patrick has been involved in object/relational mapping for 6+ years. As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drove the technical direction of the company and oversaw the development of Kodo. Now at BEA, he leads the EJB team in designing and implementation of the WebLogic Server EJB solution. Patrick is one of the leaders on the EJB3 and the JDO specification teams, and is BEA's representative on the EJB3 expert group. Patrick is involved in several industry consortia, serving as a luminary on JDOcentral and as the moderator on forthcoming JavaPersistence.com. He has been the face of standards-based persistence, having evangelized JDO and EJB Persistence in hundreds of talks throughout the world.
Patrick is co-author of Bitter EJB. Patrick has also worked for TechTrader, MIT's Media Lab and Bank One in various technical roles. Under Patrick's leadership, Kodo has become the market leading JDO implementation with over 450 customers throughout the world spanning all industries.
Jim Marino, Director of Technology, BEA Systems
Co-Presenting: Next Generation Payment Systems Using SCA (Service Component Architecture) with Meeraj Kunnumpurath and Jeremy Boynes
Jim Marino is the director of Technology at BEA Systems and has been involved with SCA technology right from inception. He is one of the founders of Fabric3 and has been providing vendor support for Voca for building SCA-based systems.
Ross Mason, Co-founder/CTO, MuleSource, Inc.
Presenting: Implementing an ESB solution Using Mule
Ross Mason is Co-founder and CTO of MuleSource, Inc., the creators of the open source Mule integration platform. Ross founded the Mule project in 2003 and strived to make it the leading Java-based ESB and integration platform. Mule is used by top-tier financial institutions such as CitiGroup, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, as well as many other high profile enterprises, including American Airlines, Adobe and Yum Brands. Prior to founding MuleSource, he was Chief Executive Officer of SymphonySoft Limited, an EU-based company providing services and support for large-scale integration projects.
Previously, Ross was Lead Architect for RaboBank and played a key role in developing one of the first large-scale ESB implementations in 2002. Mason has also worked with NatWest Bank, Credit Suisse and UBS. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Science from Bristol, UK.
Chris Nelson, Independent Consultant
Presenting: Hey! You Got Your Ruby in My Java!
Panelist: Java Web Framework Smackdown
Chris Nelson has been developing software for the last 10 years at companies with small Fortune numbers and those without any. He lives in Cincinnati, OH and is a director of the Cincinnati Java Users Group. He founded the Trails framework in 2004, but has more recently become a contributor and advocate for JRuby.
Ted Neward, Author, Effective Enterprise Java and more
Presenting a Keynote: Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages
Presenting: The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala
Co-Presenting: REST and SOAP: Arch Enemies or BFF? with Brian Sletten
Ted specializes in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.
He is the author or co-author of several books, including Effective Enterprise Java, C# In a Nutshell, SSCLI Essentials, Server-Based Java Programming, and a contributor to several technology journals. Ted is also a Microsoft MVP for Architecture, BEA Technical Director, INETA speaker, frequent conference speaker, and a member of various JSRs. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, two cats, and eight PCs.
David Nuescheler,
CTO, Day Software AG
Presenting: Kickstarting JCR: TheServerSide.com as a Content Application
David is responsible for the technology strategy and ongoing product development at Day Software AG. David joined Day in 1994, and is the key to the growth of the company from a small multimedia agency to a leading enterprise content management solution company.
David is the specification lead on JSR 170 and JSR 283, Content Repository for Java Technology API. His group has been working for over 4 years to standardize the content repository market.
David is also a committer on the Apache Jackrabbit Project and a member of the Apache Software Foundation
Eddie O'Neil, WebLogic Portal Team, BEA Systems; VP/Member of the Apache Software Foundation
Co-Presenting: RIA and Persistence with James Ward
Eddie currently works with the WebLogic Portal team at BEA Systems where he oversees strategy and features for emerging web application technologies including frameworks, Ajax, and web-based APIs with an eye to how these relate to building mashups and portals. Previously, he was a developer on WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and a computer science graduate student studying information retrieval. He is a VP and member of the Apache Software Foundation and holds a Masters degrees in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
Kirk Pepperdine, CTO, JavaPerformanceTuning.com, Sun Java Champion and co-author, ANT Developer's Handbook
Track Host: Speed (High Performance Computing)
Presenting: Concurrency & High Performance
Kirk is a Performance Consultant and has been focused on Object technologies and performance tuning for the last 15 years. Kirk is co-author of the book ANT Developer's Handbook (SAMS).
Matt Raible, Author, Spring Live and Pro JSP
Track Host: The Framework Impasse
Panel Moderator: Java Web Framework Smackdown
Matt proudly resides in Denver, Colorado where he runs Raible Designs, a consultancy that specializes in open source Java frameworks and Ajax development. Matt has been surrounded by computers for most of his life, even though he grew up in the backwoods of Montana without electricity. Matt is the author of Spring Live and Pro JSP, Third Edition, and an active Java open source contributor. He is the founder of AppFuse, a project which allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, as well as a committer on the Apache Roller project.
Nati Shalom, CTO/founder, GigaSpaces
Presenting: Scaling Your Spring Application on the Cloud
Co-Presenting: Beyond the DataGrid (Fireside Chat) with Shay Banon
Nati is responsible for GigaSpaces' technology roadmap and the direction of GigaSpaces' products as they relate to standards adaptations, architecture, and product design. Nati is also the Head of the Israeli Grid consortium. He has led the development of the first Reverse BID exchange in the Israeli Yellow Pages. He previously worked with IONA, and was responsible for the penetration of their products and technology, to most of the leading ISV's in Israel.
Nati is an experienced software engineer, with a strong background in middleware and specifically CORBA and EJB. He has been working for the past ten years with some of the leading Israeli companies, such as ECI, Comverse, BMC, Elisra, Rafael, and Amdocs. Nati holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Coventry University, U.K.
Venugopal Sharma, Principal Engineer, Pramati Technologies
Co-Presenting: Building High Availability Architectures on Amazon EC2: A Pramati Case Study with Jinesh Varia
Venu has over eight years experience in J2EE consulting as Principal Engineer at Pramati Technologies. He has helped design and build turn-key solutions based on latest technologies and has specific expertise is in performance engineering and troubleshooting. In his role as Advanced Performance Analyst, Venu helped the Pramati J2EE App Server get the ECPerf benchmarking certification. He also helped fix critical production deployments and performance issues for ISVs and large customer applications including those in the BFSI domain.
Prior to Pramati, he has been part of the performance engineering team at Oracle. He holds a masters degree in computers from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Randy Shoup, Distinguished Architect, eBay Marketplace Architecture
Presenting: eBay Marketplace Architecture: Architectural Strategies, Patterns, and Forces for Scaling Java
Randy Shoup is a Distinguished Architect in eBay's Marketplace Architecture Group and has been the primary architect for eBay's search infrastructure since 2004.
Prior to eBay, Randy was Chief Architect at Tumbleweed Communications, and has also held a variety of software development and architecture roles at Oracle and Informatica. He received a BS in Mathematical and Computational Science, and an AB in Political Science, from Stanford University.
Brian Sletten, Partner, Zepheira, LLC
Presenting: Staying Off the Bus: SOA Strategies Without ESBs and Data Integration for the 21st Century
Co-Presenting: REST and SOAP: Arch Enemies or BFF? with Ted Neward
Brian is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He is a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. Brian has been speaking about REST, the Semantic Web and other technologies around the world. Brian writes for DevX's Semantic Web Zone and is working on a book on REST and Resource- Oriented Computing in the Enterprise.
He is a partner at Zepheira, LLC, a new services company focused on using semantic-oriented technologies to solve architectural and data integration problems not handled by conventional tools and techniques. His current focus is helping organizations develop scalable, flexible architectures and sensible SOA strategies. In the past he has worked with 3D visualization and simulation systems, network matrix switches, Grid Computing, financial services, security consulting and systems for the defense and intelligence communities.
Tracy Snell, CTO, Interactions
Presenting: Delivering State-of-the-Art Voice Services
Tracy Snell is CTO of Interactions, leading the company's technical vision and development. Previously, Tracy consulted with such companies as IBM, HBOC, Aerotraining and BellSouth. Working with BellSouth, Tracy led the development of several components of their customer care and provisioning systems. In 1995, Tracy co-founded Enteract and helped develop the successful Chicagoland Internet service provider. After the sale of Enteract to 21st Century, and then 21st Century to RCN, Tracy performed the duties of Chief Technology Offer for Unbound Communications, a new company formed by VTech and RCN.
Justen Stepka, Project Manager, Atlassian
Presenting: Single Sign On Methodologies and an Implementation
Justen Stepka is the project manager of Atlassian's Crowd single sign-on security server. The Crowd team recently released an OpenID server implementation of the OpenID 2.0 specification. Previously, Justen was the CEO of Authentisoft, which was acquired by Atlassian in the fall of 2006. Justen is also a committer on the OpenID4Java project.
Glenn Vanderburg, Chief Scientist, Relevance, Inc.
Track Host: Development Kung F00
Presenting: Tactical Design and Unit Testing Java with JRuby
At Relevance, Glenn helps teams improve their software development, incorporating agile practices and high-leverage technologies such as Ruby on Rails. He is constantly on the alert for tools and practices that help programmers do better work, and evaluates them with an experienced and skeptical eye.
Jinesh Varia, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
Presenting: Self-Scaling Java-Based Architectures In-the-Cloud
Co-Presenting: Building High-Availability Architectures on Amazon EC2: A Pramati Case Study with Venugopal Sharma
As a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications, and the way businesses compete. Jinesh is focused on furthering awareness of Web services and often helps developers on a one-to-one basis, helping them implement their own ideas using Amazon’s innovative services.
Jinesh has over 7 years of experience in XML and Web services, and has worked with standard working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions at UBmatrix, including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, where he worked on various financial services projects, including the Call Modernization Project at FDIC. Jinesh was also lead developer at the Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE.
Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University.
Steve Vinoski, Member of Technical Staff, Verivue, Inc.
Presenting: Multi-Language Development
Steve is a Member of the Technical Staff at Verivue in Westford, MA, and was previously chief architect and Fellow at IONA Technologies. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.
Steve is regarded as an expert in the areas of middleware and distributed computing systems, topics for which he has authored or co-authored approximately 80 articles, papers, and a book. For the past 5 years, he has authored the Toward Integration column for IEEE Internet Computing magazine.
Perhaps most importantly, though, Steve codes like a madman in a variety of programming languages on a daily basis.
James Ward, Technical Evangelist for Flex, Adobe, JCP Member of JSR 286 (Portlets), 299 (Web Beans), 301 (Portlet Bridge)
Co-Presenting: RIA and Persistence with Eddie O'Neil
Much like his love for climbing mountains, James 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 its 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.
Jim Weaver, Author, JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-Side Applications
Presenting: JavaFX for the Enterprise
James L. (Jim) Weaver is the Chief Technical Officer at LAT, Inc., a technology consulting and software development company. He writes books, speaks for groups and conferences, and provides training and consulting services on the subjects of Java and JavaFX. His latest book is entitled JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-Side Applications.
Michael Yuan, Author, JBOSS Seam
Presenting: Designing Compelling Web Applications for Mobile Devices
Dr. Michael Yuan is a technologist focusing on enterprise software and mobile phone applications. He is the author of 4 books, including best seller JBOSS Seam. He contributes to high profile open source projects such as JBoss Seam and Mozilla Joey projects. Michael currently works for a startup, ezee inc., to develop innovative mobile phone applications. Michael is the founder of mobilets.org-- a community project to convert existing web content for mobile phone displays.