Holly Cummins

Holly Cummins

IBM
Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the IBM Quarkus team and a Java Champion. Over her career, Holly has been a full-stack javascript developer, a build architect, a client-facing consultant, a JVM performance engineer, and an innovation leader. Holly has led projects to understand climate risks, count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, and invent stories (although not at all the same time). She gets worked up about sustainability, technical empathy, extreme programming, the importance of proper testing, and automating all the things. You can find her at http://hollycummins.com, or follow her on socials at @holly_cummins.
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Holly Cummins
Holly Cummins
IBM

Six and a half ridiculous things to do with Quarkus

This session showcases unconventional, humorous uses of Quarkus, from LLM-powered hallucinations to meme-generating CLIs and Minecraft observability. Through playful demos, attendees will also learn a...
Server Side Java Server Side Java Conference 50 min. INTERMEDIATE
Holly Cummins
Holly Cummins
IBM

Things You Thought You Didn’t Need To Care About That Have a Big Impact On Your Job

This talk explores how physics, statistics, and economics shape modern software development, highlighting the impact of Moore’s Law ending, concurrent programming, evolving technologies like Loom and...
People & Culture People & Culture Conference 50 min. INTERMEDIATE