Axel Angeli, Logosworld, SOA Evangelist
Axel Angeli is the founder of Germany-based Logosworld.com, a company originally specialized in Life Sciences and Artificial Intelligence research. Today, Logosworld is a platform for a small group of technically oriented advisors and analysts, dedicated to SAP-centric Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and evangelizing the concept of SOA as a Darwinistic approach to cope with the eternal change within an enterprise. Speaking five languages and having learned about work and lifestyle in many parts of the world, Axel now focuses on management and troubleshooting of critical mission tasks as head and/or mentor of large, international development teams. Axel is known for his brutally honest presentations and publications where he unveils the true facts hidden by marketing blurbs. His latest project is “Building the SOA City” where he invites communities to demonstrate that SOA by evolution can work (www.soacity.org).
Chris AniszczykChris Aniszczyk is the co-lead of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and a member of the Technology PMC. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Chris’s passions are blogging, software advocacy, tooling and anything Eclipse. He’s always available to discuss open-source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage."
Rathish Balakrishnan, Product Manager
Rathish Balakrishnan is a Product Manager with SAP Labs India. In his current role, he leads the Product Management team, which is responsible for the rollout of the SOA Infrastructure and Mobile capabilities delivered as part of SAP NetWeaver in the Asia Pacific Region. In his five year stint at SAP, he has worked both as part of the Development and Product management organization on topics such as Lifecycle Management, Composition Environment and SOA Middleware.
Steven Bristol, Ruby on Rails Core Contributor, Less Everything
Steve wrote his first program at the age of nine using BASIC. Since then he has written everything from proxy servers (C++ on Linux) to global human resources applications (C# on Windows) and has now settled on Ruby On Rails as the love of his life. Some of the things he has done include: He is a Core Contributor to the Rails Framework and has contributed to several other open source projects. He created the open source social network Lovd By Less. He has led teams of software engineers for over 11 years. He knows over fourteen different programming languages. He was a mentor in the 2007 Google Summer of Code. He has gone over 150 miles per hour with his knee on the ground while racing motorcycles. He has been married for 10 years. He has three children. He can divide by zero.
Brian Chan, Chief Software Architect
Brian Chan, Chief Software Architect and founder, began development on Liferay Portal in 2000 to provide nonprofit organizations with an open source solution to facilitate collaboration on the Internet. He has since steered Liferay to become a leader in innovative open source enterprise solutions. With a strong foundation in software architecture and economics, Brian has solidified open source as a low-cost, high performance solution for the enterprise. His expertise in portal architecture and design has garnered him a seat on the JSR-286 portlet specification committee.
Brian holds a dual B.S. degree in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Chicago. He has become a sought after speaker at major industry events such as JAX (Asia and Europe) and Community One.
Neal Ford, Software Thinker, Meme Wrangler @ ThoughtWorks Inc.
Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of the books "Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques", "JBuilder 3 Unleashed", and "Art of Java Web Development". Neal has also spoken extensively at national and international conferences.
Michael Johann, IT Consultant, Guru
Michael Johann is the editor-in-chief of the world’s first magazine for Rails called RailsWay (www.railsway.de). He is also a renown JEE expert and the author of the book “Ruby on Rails fuer JEE Experten” (German book). He trains companies in JRuby and Rails and is a regular speaker at conferences around the globe.
Anshu Jain, Technical Staff Member | Services Software Engineering | IBM India Research Lab.
Anshu is a member of the Services Engineering Research group at the IBM HYPERLINK “http://www.research.ibm.com/irl/”India Research Laboratory(IRL), Bangalore. The group specializes in research on programming and software engineering techniques in relevance to the growing services industry. He is also the architect of an eclipse based Data Analytics Tool. Before Joining IRL, He worked at SAP Labs India for 3 years, in the areas of enterprise software tools. His work was focused around modeling and composition tools on the eclipse platform. He has also worked on change management systems for distributed software development.
Dhawal Joshi, Dhawal is a Development Architect at SAP Labs India with 7 years of experience in sofware development. He is involved in the the development of Modeling Tools based on Eclipse in SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, which is part of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment product offering. His main area of expertise has been SAP Web Dynpro and Mobile Application Platform, both of which are Eclipse based Modeling Tools for developing UI applications
Mike Keith, Java EE Expert @ Oracle Corp.
Mike Keith was a co-lead of the EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0 specifications in addition to representing Oracle on the Java EE 5 specification expert group. He co-authored the premier JPA reference book called Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API and has over 15 years of teaching, research and development experience in object-oriented and distributed systems, specializing in object persistence. He currently works as an architect for Java persistence strategies at Oracle and represents Oracle on the JPA 2.0 (JSR 317) and Java EE 6 (JSR 316) expert groups. He is a popular speaker at numerous conferences and events around the world.
Kito Mann, Editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action
Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Sebastian Meyen, Sebastian Meyen is observing the IT industry as a journalist since the mid-90s. Being involved in the development of most print and online publications of Software & Support Media, he possesses a sound overview of the different technology markets. As Chief Content Officer he is responsible for the content strategy of Software & Support Media’s brands (print, online, conferences). Before joining Software & Support Media he studied philosophy, psychology and anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany.
Vijai Mohan, Vijai Mohan works as a software development engineer in Amazon.com Retail Systems team. His primarily areas of expertise include distributed systems, text mining, information retrieval and extraction. Before his current position, he worked in SensorLogic as a software design engineer to build distributed message oriented multi-agent systems to monitor and control remote telemetry devices. He holds a master's degree in computer science.
Harshad Oak, Rightrix Solutions
Harshad is the founder of Rightrix Solutions and edits IndicThreads.com. He is the author of 3 books on Java technology and several articles. For his contributions to technology and the developer community, he has been recognized as an Oracle ACE Director and a Sun Java Champion. Harshad Oak has a master's degree in computer management from Symbiosis, India, and is SCJP & SCWCD certified. Before founding Rightrix Solutions, Harshad worked with i-flex Solutions and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He is a speaker at several technology conferences around the globe.
Ketan Padegaonkar, Consultant and Developer at ThoughtWorks
Ketan Padegaonkar is a consultant and developer at ThoughtWorks. He has been working on Eclipse technologies for 3 years, and is a loud mouth on all things Eclipse. He is a committer and contributor at Eclipse.org. Ketan is the founder and developer of SWTBot, an open-source UI testing tool for SWT and Eclipse based applications. Ketan is currently in Bangalore, blogs at http://ketan.padegaonkar.name and can be contacted at ketan at thoughtworks.com
Prakash G.R, Eclipse Platform UI Team, IBM
Prakash is the co-founder of Cypal Solutions, the first Indian company that gave trainings on Eclipse Plug-in development. In the past he has developed a compiler, worked in JEE Servers and lead the development of an ESB as well. His first experience with Eclipse was developing an open source product Cypal Studio for GWT, which is now the defacto Eclipse plugin for GWT development. Since then he fall in love with Eclipse and was the lead designer of IDEs & RCP apps in his previous jobs. He is currently working with IBM for the Eclipse Platform UI team. He is very passionate about Eclipse and runs a blog on Eclipse plug-in tips and tricks.
Ajith Ramanath, Ajith Ramanath is a JVMer who was/is actively involved in several VM technologies – from Hotspot to IBM’s J9 and Real-Time Java technologies. He has dealt with bits and bytes of HPUX Kernel as well. Lately, he is concentrating on creating a standard and language neutral mechanism to ‘measure’ the determinism of Real-Time runtimes!
Craig Russell, Architect at Sun Microsystems
Craig is an architect at Sun Microsystems working on Java object persistence. He joined Sun to lead the development of Object Relational Mapping. He initiated the creation of Java Data Objects, for which he was specification lead for JSR 12 and JSR 243 and continues to maintain the specifications. He was the architect responsible for developing the implementation of Container Managed Persistence for Sun’s Java Enterprise Edition Application Server. Craig is a Member and Vice President of The Apache Software Foundation and mentors several podlings in the Apache Incubator.
Suresh Shamanna, Suresh Shamanna, Director of EMEA Operations, has over 15 years of combined experience in Software Development and Business Management. At Liferay Suresh devotes his efforts towards Business development in Europe and heads Liferay’s European Headquarter based out of Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to Liferay, he has held senior technology management roles at various Organizations including Borland Inc, Deutsche Telekom etc. He was instrumental in Implementing various Webservice and Portal Solutions which is been used by millions of users worldwide even today. As a long-time open source advocate, Suresh holds degree in MSC and MBA.
Ken Sipe, Java Coder & Architect @ Perficient Inc.
Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc. (PRFT), IBM's largest service partner, where he leads multiple teams in the development of solutions in the SOA, Web 2.0 and portal domains, on both the Java and .Net platforms. Ken was the founder of CodeMentor, where he was the Chief Architect and Mentor, leading clients in the execution of RUP and Agile methodologies in the delivery of software solutions. He is a former trainer for Rational in OOAD and RUP, and a CORBA Visibroker trainer for Borland. He continues to enjoy providing training and mentoring in all aspects of software development. Ken has a deep need to be highly diversified. Ken often works with IT executives on high-level strategic roadmaps, currently geared around service oriented architectures (SOA). Ken also likes to keep his hands "dirty" in the code, which has him on a regular basis, pairing or otherwise producing code. Ken is regularly requested by clients that know him to "rescue" projects, either through the streamlining of processes or the rapid production of code. Ken is a certified JBoss developer and is a frequent participates on open source projects. Ken is currently interested in the growing maturity of SOA solutions in the open source space, such as the ESB solutions like ServiceMix and Mule, or rules engines such as JBossRules.
Gerd Wütherich, Software Architect & OSGi Expert
Gerd Wütherich works as an independent consultant and coach for enterprise system development and architectures for large Java-based application systems. His main area of expertise is in building modular enterprise application systems utilizing OSGi technology, especially in combination with the Spring framework. He is coauthor of the german OSGi book “Die OSGi Service Platform” and frequent speaker at international conferences. More information is available at www.gerd-wuetherich.de.