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Quarkus Community BOF

Quarkus is a fast-growing Java framework with 800+ extensions and 1,000+ contributors, now under the CommonHaus Foundation. Meet core team and contributors at Devoxx to discuss the ecosystem, share ideas, and ask anything—especially about Quarkus, community involvement, and its work on Agentic AI.

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Dimitris Andreadis
Dimitris AndreadisIBM
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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 800+ 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.

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Dimitris Andreadis

Dimitris Andreadis

IBM

Switzerland

Dimitris is an open source veteran with 25+ years of experience in IT and he is currently a (Red Hat) Sr.Director of Engineering at IBM in charge of the Cloud Native Runtimes group that includes Quarkus, Vert.x, SpringBoot and Node.js. 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.