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Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate at @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Serverless. Abdel started his career in data centers and infrastructure in Morocco, where he is originally from, before moving to Google's largest EU data center in Belgium. Then, in Sweden, he joined Google Cloud Professional Services. He spent five years working with Google Cloud customers on architecting and designing large-scale distributed systems before turning to advocacy and community work.

Developer (Architect), Consultant, Trainer https://airhacks.io, podcaster https://airhacks.fm/, AWS Hero and Java (Champion) enthusiast Adam Bien https://adambien.blog uses Java since JDK 1.0 and JavaScript since LiveScript and still enjoys writing code.Adam regularly organizes Java / Web / Cloud / Architectures online live workshops https://airhacks.live and monthly Q&A live streaming show: https://airhacks.tv.

Adele is a software engineer at Trifork Amsterdam, where she is working on backend systems for the educational sector. Most of her work day is spent in the JVM/Spring ecosystems. Adele got the coding bug later in life but since then has been making up for lost time, going from command line noob to employed software engineer in just one year. Her experiences both in and out of tech have given her a unique perspective on the art of programming together with humans, which she hopes is useful to other humans who program with humans.

Alan Bateman is an architect in the Java Platform group in Oracle.

Alex is an enthusiastic team leader and quality-focused developer with a passion for building tools and programming languages. With over 10 years of experience in software engineering, Alex is currently part of the Gradle Build Tool team. He focuses on aspects of scalability and adaptability of Gradle to builds of any size and shape. With the goal of putting "soft" back into software, he is committed to the life-long learning and greatly enjoys sharing his knowledge with others.

Alex Soto is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. He is passionate about the Java world, software automation and he believes in the open-source software model. Alex has co-authored four books "Testing Java Microservices," "Quarkus Cookbook," "Kubernetes Secrets Management," "GitOps Cookbook", and “RHCE Ansible Automation Study Guide”, and “ Applied AI for Enterprise Java Development”Recognized as a Java Champion since 2017, Alex is an esteemed international speaker, sharing his knowledge and expertise at conferences and events worldwide. He also serves as a radio collaborator at Onda Cero and imparts sessions as a teacher at Salle URL University.For the latest updates and insights into the Kubernetes and Java world, follow Alex on Twitter (@alexsotob).

Alex Van Boxel is a Principal System Architect at Collibra. With an engineering background in R&D at Alcatel-Lucent, Progress Software, and Veepee, he loves to focus on the software industry's fundamental building blocks. That means reading, understanding, and contributing to specifications and the Open-Source projects that run through our infrastructure. He also loves discussing technology and sharing his knowledge through mentoring, writing articles, and public speaking.

Alexander, a 34-year-old Software Engineer at JDriven, holds dual Dutch and Greek nationality. He earned his master’s degree in Game Studies from the University of Amsterdam, where he discovered his passion for gamification and software engineering. Alexander aims to bridge the gap between game development and software engineering, believing that both industries have much to learn from each other. He is dedicated to integrating technologies and methodologies from both fields. Additionally, he enjoys experimenting with new technologies and cutting-edge sdk's.

Industry researcher, member of the GraalVM team, working on Espresso: a meta-circular Java bytecode interpreter.

Alina is a developer advocate for GraalVM at Oracle Labs, a research & development organization at Oracle. Loves both programming and natural languages, compilers, and open source.

Ana is a Java Champion Alumni, Developer Advocate for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, guest author of the book "DevOps tools for Java Developers", and a constant adopter of challenging technical scenarios involving Java-based frameworks and multiple cloud providers. She actively supports technical communities' growth through knowledge sharing and enjoys curating content for conferences as a program committee member. To learn more about/from her, follow her on Twitter @ammbra1508.

With nearly two decades of coding experience, I'm fueled by passion as I continue to type away daily.As a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, I actively contribute to diverse Open Source projects, driven by both personal fulfillment and professional advancement. My not-so-secret passion lies in programming languages, developer tools, compilers, and beyond. Come and spot me on a project near you!

Andrei is a software engineer at Tanzu Application Labs (formerly Pivotal Labs), specializing in application modernization. He is an active committer to several Spring Boot and Apache open-source projects and is a regular speaker at technical conferences.Andrei's areas of interest include remote API design, cloud computing, resilient distributed systems, security, and domain-driven design.

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than 20 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects. Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event. Creator of JReleaser.

Angelos is working on the specification and implementation of the Java programming language and compiler, at the Java Product Group/Oracle.

Anna Maier originally comes from the Java world, but now also feels very comfortable in the frontend. Since 2021, she works as full-stack web developer and IT-Consultant for codecentric. She has been passionate about accessibility for many years. She is also an advocate for women in IT.

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. He has been recognized as a Java Champion since 2014. He often presents as a speaker at large software conferences and contributes to the Kotlin YouTube channel.

Antonio Goncalves is a senior developer living in Paris. He evolved in the Java EE landscape for a while and then moved on to Spring, Micronaut, Quarkus and now Intelligent Applications. From distributed systems to microservices and cloud, today he helps his customers to develop the architecture that suits them the best.Aside from working with customers, Antonio wrote a few books (Java EE and Quarkus), talks at international conferences (Devoxx, JavaOne, GeeCon…), writes technical papers and articles, gives on-line courses (PluralSight, Udemy) and co-presents the Technical French pod cast Les Cast Codeurs. He has co-created the Paris JUG, Voxxed Microservices and Devoxx France. For all his work for the community he has been made Java Champion a few years ago.

I'm engineering manager with more than 20 years of professional experience, acquired in software editors, in services companies and consulting groups.I joined Doctolib in 2022. In charge of Engineering Efficiency teams, we help development teams optimise their methods, processes and tools to deliver new features and evolutions with less effort and increasing quality.We have in charge the developers tools, the application packaging, the continuous integration / delivery platform, and the design system used by Doctolib applications.Specialties: Software Development practices and tooling

Artem Makarov is a Principal Engineer at Code Nomads. He's been working on Java projects in various industries for the past 12 years. Having Masters in Electronics Engineering he is passionate for applying engineering practices in his projects, contributing to better software design and reliability. Besides his developer role, he frequently helps aspiring developers to master software developer craft by sharing knowledge and hosting trainings. In his free time he enjoys traveling, road cycling and learning electronic music production.

Developer convinced of the importance of knowledge sharing and best practices within teams, I co-founded Packmind with two partners.We develop plugins for IDEs and code review tools that help development teams leverage the expertise of all their members. I work with companies to implement new technical exchange formats to facilitate the rapid sharing of knowledge.The goal is to establish and foster cross-functional communities of practice that will help developers improve their technical skills across a variety of topics (architecture, performance, security, clean code, testing, DDD, React, etc.).

Head of Java/Kotlin Engineering at VirtusLab, he has been in the industry for ten years. During this time, he has had the opportunity to work in various roles, such as Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Architect, and even Technical Product Manager. This diverse experience enables him to approach problems from a holistic perspective. He still loves to get his hands dirty - for more than two years, he has been publishing weekly reviews of events in the JVM world - https://vived.substack.com/

Balkrishna works as an engineering lead at ING Bank. He is also a frequent speaker at renowned tech conferences. He has passion for continuous learning and genuine desire to sharing knowledge. He enjoys crafting elegant solutions while solving complex challenges. Although he has been working with Java for more than 20 years, he finds latest developments in Java quite exciting. In his free time, he enjoys playing chess. The analytical thinking and foresight used in chess is something he finds useful in software development.

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 solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers" books, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, including Kubecon, JavaOne (RIP), Devoxx, QCon, DevRelCon, DevOpsDays (all over), DevOops (not a typo) and others. After a tenure of eleven years in JFrog DevRel, Baruch is the Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate at Gradle.

Bert Jan is CTO at OpenValue and focuses on Java, software architecture, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Bert Jan is a Java Champion, JavaOne Rock Star speaker, Duke's Choice Award winner and leads NLJUG, the Dutch Java User Group. He loves to share his experience by speaking at conferences, writing for the Dutch Java magazine and helping out Devoxx4Kids with teaching kids how to code. Bert Jan is easily reachable on X at @bjschrijver.