Server Side JavaBOF60min
Quarkus Community BOF
This session invites attendees to engage with Quarkus core team members and contributors, discuss its growing open-source ecosystem of 700+ extensions, and explore recent developments—including Agentic AI. Participants can ask questions, share ideas, and learn how to get involved in shaping Quarkus's future within the CommonHaus Foundation.
Georgios AndrianakisIBM
Dimitris AndreadisRed Hat
Clement EscoffierRed Hat
Guillaume SmetIBM
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Wednesday, October 8, 18:50-19:50
BOF 2
Quarkus keeps growing and evolving while maintaining its focus on an efficient runtime and developer productivity. It offers a vibrant and ever-expanding ecosystem of 700+ publicly available extensions (the Quarkus universe or Quarkiverse), and is maintained by a community of 1000+ contributors. It is also now part of the CommonHaus Foundation, bolstering our commitment to open-source development and inspiring greater community participation.
Members of the Quarkus core team and extensions contributors will be present at Devoxx, and will be happy to discuss anything around the Quarkus ecosystem.
Bring your questions, share your challenges, and contribute your ideas to shape the future of Quarkus. Discover how you can become an active part of this vibrant community and take advantage of this unique opportunity to Ask Us Anything. Don’t miss out on being part of the conversation that’s setting the direction for Java’s next big leap, including all the work the Quarkus team has been doing around Agentic AI.
See you there!
Members of the Quarkus core team and extensions contributors will be present at Devoxx, and will be happy to discuss anything around the Quarkus ecosystem.
Bring your questions, share your challenges, and contribute your ideas to shape the future of Quarkus. Discover how you can become an active part of this vibrant community and take advantage of this unique opportunity to Ask Us Anything. Don’t miss out on being part of the conversation that’s setting the direction for Java’s next big leap, including all the work the Quarkus team has been doing around Agentic AI.
See you there!
Georgios Andrianakis
Georgios works for IBM as a Senior Principal Software Engineer and is currently one of the most active contributors of Quarkus, where he works in all sorts of areas, including but not limited to LangChain4j, RESTEasy Reactive, Spring compatibility, Kubernetes support, testing, Kotlin and more.
He is also an enthusiastic promoter of Quarkus that never misses a chance to spread the Quarkus love!
He is also an enthusiastic promoter of Quarkus that never misses a chance to spread the Quarkus love!
Dimitris Andreadis
Dimitris has 25+ years of experience in IT and he is currently Sr.Director of Engineering at Red Hat in charge of the Cloud Native Runtimes group that includes Quarkus, Vert.x, SpringBoot, Node.js, as well as his former WildFly / JBoss Enterprise Application Server teams that he used to run for several years. He also served as the JBoss AS project lead and he has been a JBoss addict and contributor from the early start-up days. He worked previously at Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. Dimitris studied computer science at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland.
Dimitris is a passionate advocator of Opensource & Red Hat technologies and has presented on a variety of events and conferences around the world. He has been an invited speaker at various Java/Linux community events and user groups, and he has delivered inspirational talks on technology and Open Source in universities and educational institutes. In his spare time he has also helped with the organization of technology enablement events for children, like Scratch Days, Devoxx4Kids and JCrete4Kids.
Dimitris is a passionate advocator of Opensource & Red Hat technologies and has presented on a variety of events and conferences around the world. He has been an invited speaker at various Java/Linux community events and user groups, and he has delivered inspirational talks on technology and Open Source in universities and educational institutes. In his spare time he has also helped with the organization of technology enablement events for children, like Scratch Days, Devoxx4Kids and JCrete4Kids.
Clement Escoffier
Clement Escoffier (@clementplop) is a distinguished engineer at Red Hat and co-lead of the Quarkus project. He is a Java Champion. Before joining Red Hat, Clement had several professional lives, from academic positions to management. He contributed to projects and products, touching many domains and technologies such as OSGi, mobile, continuous delivery, and DevOps. Clement has always been interested in software engineering, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture. He recently focused on Reactive Systems, Cloud-Native applications, and Kubernetes. Clement contributed to many open-source projects, such as Apache Felix, Eclipse Vert.x, SmallRye, Mutiny, and Quarkus. He also authored the "Reactive Systems in Java" book.
Guillaume Smet
Guillaume is Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat.
He has spent his career (20+ years, he doesn't get any younger...) working with and on Open Source Software.
Major contributor and release manager of Quarkus, he puts a lot of effort into improving the automation for the project and initiated the Quarkus GitHub App and Quarkus GitHub Action extensions.
On his spare time, he reads a lot of contemporary French literature.
He has spent his career (20+ years, he doesn't get any younger...) working with and on Open Source Software.
Major contributor and release manager of Quarkus, he puts a lot of effort into improving the automation for the project and initiated the Quarkus GitHub App and Quarkus GitHub Action extensions.
On his spare time, he reads a lot of contemporary French literature.
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