Java Champions
All Java Champions that have added their award to their speaker profile.
Oliver Drotbohm is a member of the Spring engineering team at VMware by Broadcom, Inc.. His work focused on software architecture, DDD, REST, and persistence technologies. His new book, “Modulithic Applications with Spring”, is due to release in 2024... Show more
Simon Martinelli is a Java Champion, a Vaadin Champion, and an Oracle ACE Pro. He regularly shares his knowledge in articles, speaks at international conferences, and writes his blog: https://martinelli.ch. His current interest is increasing the effi... Show more
Staff Developer Advocate for Snyk, Java Champion, Oracle Ace Pro, and Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in creating and maintaining software. He is passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming and Cybersecurity. Bria... Show more
With over 20 years of diverse experience across various roles and companies, Marit is passionate about building awesome software in collaboration with amazing people, and making developers’ lives better. She is committed to continuous learning and a... Show more
Passionate architect, senior developer and trainer; also Java Champion and Oracle ACE Pro. Passionate about "building the right thing" and "building the thing right" focusing on lean and elegant solutions. I love to share new ideas and knowledge. Out... Show more
Richard Fichtner is Principal Software Architect at XDEV Software GmbH and has worked in the software industry for more than 20 years, often at the interface between business and technology. He is involved in the open-source community to spread knowl... Show more
Eric Deandrea is a Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on application development technologies. Eric has over 25 years of experience designing and building Java-based solutions and developer training programs. He ... Show more
Bazlur Rahman
Java Champion 🏆 Empowering Developers through Speaking 🗣️ Writing ✍️ Mentoring 🤝 & Community Building 🌍 Published Author 📖 Contributing Editor at InfoQ and Foojay.IO
A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Software Engineer with over a decade of specialized experience in Java and related technologies. His expertise has been formally recognized through the prestigious title of Java Champion. Beyond his professional commitments, ... Show more
Anton is a Developer Advocate in the Kotlin team at JetBrains. With a professional background in server-side development, Anton has been building tools for developers for more than ten years. Recognized as a Java Champion since 2014, he often speaks ... Show more
Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solv... Show more
Evgeny is a contributor to various open source projects, including OpenJDK, and a speaker at international conferences and JUGs. He is also one of the project leads of widely adopted code coverage library for Java and Kotlin - JaCoCo, and the award-w... Show more
Mary Grygleski
AI Practice Lead, Technical Advocate, Java Champion, President of Chicago-JUG, Chapter Co-Lead of AICamp-Chicago
Mary is a Java Champion, and the AI Practice Lead at Callibrity, a consulting firm based in Cincinnati, 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... Show more
Rafael works as a software consultant in Oslo, Norway. He is a proponent of static typing and a JVM enthusiast with particular interest in code instrumentation, concurrency and functional programming. Rafael blogs about software development, regularl... Show more
Hanno Embregts is a Java Developer with a passion for learning, teaching and making music. In his day-to-day job as an IT Consultant at Info Support, Hanno prefers work that is fast-paced and versatile. This is why he juggles Java development, sof... Show more
Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion Alumni, Developer Advocate for the Database Group At Oracle, with more than 2 decades of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developm... Show more
Oleg Šelajev is a developer advocate at Docker working mainly on developer productivity, Testcontainers, improving how we set up local development environments and tests, and building applications with AI parts. Developer. Author. Speaker. Java Champ... Show more
Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion and JUG Leader based in Sweden. Besides advocating the Jakarta EE technologies, Ivar is contributing to the Jakarta EE specifications as well as being ... Show more
Michael is Java Champion and Senior Consultant at INNOQ, a software-development and consulting company based in Germany. With over 15 years of professional experience, his expertise ranges from application development with Java and Spring Boot to des... Show more
Ix-chel Ruiz has developed software application & tools since 2000. Her research interests include Java, dynamic languages, client-side technologies and testing. Java Champion, Oracle ACE pro, Testcontainers Community Champion, CDF Ambassador, Hacker... Show more
Elder helps Java developers to build and deliver secure, available, and fast server-side applications. He is a published author of six books and a board member at SouJava, one of the biggest JUGs in the world. As a Developer Advocate, Elder shares ex... Show more
Brian Demers is a Developer Advocate at Gradle, a Java Champion, and an Apache Member who contributes to the Directory, Maven, and Shiro projects. He spends much of his day contributing to OSS projects by writing code, tutorials, blogs, and answering... Show more
Elias is a Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, Java Magazine NL and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Backbase. He shares content related to Java, OSS and Quality Engineering at conferences, meetups, articles and open-source conferences. Show more
Loiane Groner is a Java Champion, Angular GDE, Microsoft MVP, Oracle ACE with over 18 years of experience and a Director at BNY. In her spare time, she loves contributing to the community, and she publishes tech videos on Youtube and creates free pro... Show more
Michael Redlich
Java Champion | Director at Garden State JUG | Lead Java Editor at InfoQ Java | Contract Developer Advocate and Technical Writer at Payara
Michael Redlich has been an active member within the Java community for the past 25 years. He founded the Garden State Java User Group (formerly the ACGNJ Java Users Group) in 2001 where he serves as one of the directors. Since 2016, Mike has served ... Show more
Burk is a long-time programmer and software architect, with experience in multiple languages including JavaScript and Java. He’s presented at multiple conferences including ConnectTech, DevNexus, JavaOne, and Oracle Code One, and contributed to three... Show more
Ken Kousen is the author of the Pragmatic Programmers books "Mockito Made Clear" and "Help Your Boss Help You", the O'Reilly books "Kotlin Cookbook", "Modern Java Recipes", and "Gradle Recipes for Android", and the Manning book "Making Java Groovy". ... Show more
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and ma... Show more
With a CS degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), David has been working in Software development for more than 20 years, taking part in projects for different projects in sectors like Banking, Defense, Services & Retail, Maritime and ... Show more
Justin Lee is a Java Champion, a MongoDB Champion, and a Kotlin fanatic. He has been programming in Java since 1996 and has worked on virtually every level of the application stack from database drivers all the way to application servers and front en... Show more
Christopher Judd is CTO and partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, Java Champion, an open source evangelist, and the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader. He is an accomplished w... Show more
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Java Champions
Java Champions are esteemed experts in the Java community, actively sharing their profound knowledge and expertise with fellow developers. This recognition is granted to individuals who have made significant contributions to the Java ecosystem through their participation in technical forums, user groups, conferences, and various events. Consequently, Java Champions often find themselves in high demand as speakers at industry events, where they generously share their insights and knowledge.
When a Java Champion includes this prestigious accolade in their speaker profile, it serves as a compelling endorsement of their expertise and credibility. Event organizers and attendees recognize the Java Champions designation as a mark of excellence in the realm of Java technology. As a result, Java Champion speakers are perceived as authoritative figures in the subjects they present, making it more likely for them to secure speaking engagements and enhancing their visibility within the community.
Beyond the personal benefits for Java Champions, such as networking opportunities and increased exposure for their work, the entire Java community stands to gain from the contributions of these distinguished speakers. By disseminating their knowledge and insights, Java Champions play a pivotal role in elevating the overall expertise and understanding within the Java community. This, in turn, contributes to the continuous improvement of products and services for the benefit of the entire Java ecosystem.