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Speakers for DevNexus 2012

Speaker Biographies

Brad Anderson

Brad Anderson has been wrangling data for 20 years, more recently building and using non-relational data stores. He works as a solution architect, assisting clients in their use of MapR’s technology-leading Hadoop distribution. Previously, Brad has worked on a large-scale video-on-demand platform, smart grid analytics, a real-time audience participation platform, helped Cloudant build their hosted NoSQL offering based on CouchDB, and organized the NoSQL East 2009 conference in Atlanta.

Presentation:

@boorad


Mark Atwood

Mark Atwood is a Developer Evangelist for Red Hat OpenShift. He has been a long-time contributor to open source. His technology interests include Cloud Computing and NoSQL. He is the patch queue manager for MySQL Drizzle. He was the Senior Technology Advisor for Network.com at Sun Microsystems. He makes his home in Seattle USA.

Presentation:

@fallenpegasus


Peter Bell

Peter is the CTO of SKiNNiO. He presents internationally and writes extensively on domain specific languages, agile architecture, NoSQL and requirements and estimating. He helps teams to develop great software quickly by improving the requirements gathering, estimating, project management processes, engineering practices and tools used.

He is on the program committee for Code Generation in Cambridge, England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA). He has presented at a range of conferences including ooPSLA, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference and the No Fluff Just Stuff tour. He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks, Information Week, Methods & Tools, NFJS the Magazine and is a regular contributor to GroovyMag.

Presentation:

@peterbell


Tim Berglund

Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep connections between software development and the broader world. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, build systems, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.

His firm, the August Technology Group, helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects on the JVM. The August Group’s technology preferences reflect the generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.

Tim is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User Group, author of the open-source Groovy Liquibase DSL, co-author of the DZone Clojure RefCard, co-presenter of the best-selling O’Reilly Git Master Class, co-author of Building and Testing with Gradle, and a member of the O’Reilly Expert Network.

He lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.

Presentation:

@tlberglund


Marius Bogoevici

Marius Bogoevici is a Senior Software Engineer with Red Hat. A JBoss core developer, Marius is the lead for Snowdrop, a set of JBoss-specific extensions to the Spring Framework, has contributed to the development of the JBoss AS server, and has participated in the development of the JSR-299 (CDI) reference implementation.

Presentation:

@mariusbogoevici


Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden is a senior developer evangelist for Adobe. His work focuses on web standards, mobile development and ColdFusion. He’s a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. Raymond can be reached at his blog (http://www.raymondcamden.com/), @cfjedimaster on Twitter, or via email at raymondcamden@gmail.com.

Presentation:

@cfjedimaster


David Chandler

David Chandler works with the Google Developer Tools Team in Atlanta. An electrical engineer by training, Chandler got hooked on developing database Web applications in the days of NCSA Mosaic and has since written Web applications in a variety of languages, including C, perl, ksh, ColdFusion, Java, JSF, GWT, and now Dart. Prior to joining Google, Chandler worked on Internet banking applications with Intuit and launched a non-profit startup built with GWT and AppEngine. Chandler holds a patent on a method of organizing hierarchical data in a relational database and blogs about Java Web development at http://turbomanage.wordpress.com.

Presentation:

@drfibonacci


Roy Clarkson

Roy Clarkson studied computer science before beginning his career as a software engineer. He has worked in software development for over ten years, with a variety of languages and technologies. He is currently working as an engineer with SpringSource, a division of VMware, where he is the lead on the Spring Android project. He also participates on the Greenhouse project, and built it’s associated mobile clients. Roy has spent the last few years focusing on mobile application development, including iPhone, Android, and mobile web. Prior to that, he focused most of his time on web based application development. Roy has presented on mobile technologies at several of the Atlanta based user groups, including the Atlanta Mobile Developers, and Atlanta Spring User Groups.

Presentation:

@royclarkson


Charlie Collins

Charlie Collins is the Director of Technology at MOVL; an experienced java, mobile, and web developer; a contributor to several open source projects; and coauthor of Android in Practice, Unlocking Android, and GWT in Practice.

Presentation:

@CharlieCollins


Robert Cooper

Robert Cooper is a developer based in Atlanta where he develops telemedicine apps at Reach Heath. He is the author of GWT in Practice and a contributor to a number of open source projects including Shortyz Crosswords for Android.

Presentation:

@kebernet


Patrick Curran

Patrick Curran is Chair of the Java Community Process organization. In this role he oversees the activities of the JCP’s Program Management Office including evolving the process and the organization, managing its membership, guiding specification leads and experts through the process, chairing Executive Committee meetings, and managing the JCP.org web site.

Patrick has worked in the software industry for more than 25 years, and at Sun and then Oracle for 20 years. He has a long-standing record in conformance testing, and before joining the JCP he led the Java Conformance Engineering team in Sun’s Client Software Group. He was also chair of Sun’s Conformance Council, which was responsible for defining Sun’s policies and strategies around Java conformance and compatibility.

Patrick has participated actively in several consortia and communities including the W3C (as a member of the Quality Assurance Working Group and co-chair of the Quality Assurance Interest Group), and OASIS (as co-chair of the Test Assertions Guidelines Technical Committee). Patrick’s blog is here.

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Jeremy Deane

Jeremy Deane has over 17 years of software engineering experience in leadership positions. His expertise includes Enterprise Integration Architecture, Web Application Architecture, and Software Process Improvement. In addition, he is an accomplished speaker and technical author.

Presentation:

@jtdeane


Mark Fisher

Mark is the founder of the Spring Integration project. Currently at VMware, he continues to lead the Spring Integration team while exploring the intersection of big data and messaging. He has been a committer on a number of Spring projects, including the Spring Framework itself and Spring AMQP, which he co-founded. Mark speaks regularly at conferences and user groups about messaging, data, integration, and cloud computing.

Presentation:

@m_f_


Ben Galbraith

Ben Galbraith, together with his long-time friend Dion Almaer, forms one-half of the dynamic “Ben and Dion” duo that founded Ajaxian.com, headed Developer Tools at Mozilla, ran Developer Relations at Palm and is now running mobile architecture and engineering at Walmart.com after being acquired along with their start-up team in early 2011. Ben’s been writing code since he was six and starting businesses since he was ten; he’s written books, given hundreds of award-winning presentations world-wide, produced a few technical conferences, sold three companies, and has held CEO, CIO, CTO, and Software Architect positions in the medical, publishing, media, consumer electronics, advertising, software and internet industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and six children.

Presentation:

@bgalbs


David Geary

A long-time best-selling author, instructor, and speaker, David is the author of Core HTML5 Canvas, published by Prentice-Hall in 2012 and four best-selling Java books including one of the best-selling Java books of all time, Graphic Java, and the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David also writes regularly for IBM’s developerworks online where his articles on JSF and HTML5 have collectively drawn nearly one million page views.

David has spoken at hundreds of conferences around the world, including DevNexus, OSCON, Strange Loop, JavaOne, Devoxx, JAOO. David spoke on the highly regarded No Fluff Just Stuff tour for more than six years. He is a three-time JavaOne Rock Star, a designation awarded to the top rated speakers from the JavaOne conference.

In 2011 David founded the HTML5 Denver Meetup, which has become one of the most successful meetup groups in the Rockies with over 800 members.

Presentation:

@davidgeary


Neil Green

As self-diagnosed “recovering technical team lead,” Neil has taken a sabbatical from the exciting world of architect/lead/manager to go back to what he loves - being a full time coder. In his own words, “The technical part wasn’t hard, it was having to say the same thing over and over expecting different results (incidentally the definition for both insanity and stupidity) that wore me down over time. I needed a break.”

Today Neil finds himself sitting comfortably in a dark window-less cubical, with no direct reports, no project schedule to satisfy, no political in-fights, and best of all a manager to keep all the non-code related cruft at bay. Though cruel and unusual, Neil has taken to walking into his manager’s office and declaring, “Now YOU have to deal with it all! Hahahahah!!!!” Incidentally, he has found that this never gets old.

Further abusing his new-found freedom, he has also been known to start conversations with, “If you’re not writing clean code we can’t work together - sorry, I’m getting too old to sift through garbage” and “I get it – you don’t write units tests. That’s cool. I’ll just delete everything you commit so we don’t have to suffer with your steaming pile of well-it-worked-when-I-tested-it.”

Most days will find Neil belting out code with his favorite HTML5 stack: CoffeeScript, SASS, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Handlebars.js, jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile while muttering, “These kids today don’t know how good they have it.” When asked if he’ll ever do backend development again he replied, “If I look at another line of Java I may stab myself in the eye. I’m holding out until the world realizes it should just learn something else – anything else. I’m starting to not care which.”

Presentation:

@feyn


Wesley Hales

Wesley Hales is a User Interface architect from Atlanta, GA. He has been involved in UI and User Experience roles for over a decade in both startup and enterprise environments. Wesley co-founded several enterprise frameworks during his 4.5 years at JBoss by Red Hat (including the JBoss Portlet Bridge and AeroGear projects) and also served as a co-founder of the recently acquired startup, InstaOps. He is now employed by Apigee as a software developer mainly focused on UI.

Overall, Wesley enjoys creating world-class user interfaces and experiences that people fall in love with.
You can see him speak at the occasional conference, read his posts on wesleyhales.com, or follow him on twitter @wesleyhales.

Presentation:

@wesleyhales


Barry Hawkins

Barry has played various roles in his 17 years in the software industry, including lone developer, team lead, director, and Agile coach and mentor. Barry is one of the few native Atlantans, currently specializing in coaching and mentoring for Agile software development in addition to doing contract software development. Over the years, he has developed on multiple platforms, focusing primarily on Microsoft technologies and then Java from 2003 onward. He views technology as a set of tools, and embraces the use of dynamic as well as statically-typed languages, procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming, each having their own strengths in a given problem domain.

Prior to his career in software, Barry Hawkins spent 10 years designing, selling, and delivering turn-key industrial packaging and marking systems into manufacturing plants throughout the southeastern United States. He was responsible for the implementation, maintenance, and support of every system he sold, which was a formative experience that continues to influence his approach to consulting and coaching.

Presentation:

@barryhawkins


Daniel Hinojosa

Daniel Hinojosa has been a self-employed developer, teacher and speaker for private business, education, and government since 1999. Daniel also actively teaches programming for the University of New Mexico Continuing Education.

Daniel is a Pomodoro Technique practitioner and is co-founder of the Albuquerque Java User’s Group in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When he’s not supporting other local Java developers, Daniel spends most of his waking hours developing in and around the Java ecosystem, encompassing multiple languages and frameworks. He is author for the upcoming book ‘Testing in Scala’ and is the latest member of the No Fluff Just Stuff tour.

In his spare time, Daniel is an avid BBQer and is a U.S. and World History wonk. He enjoys swimming, biking, reading, technical conferences, beer and NFL like most good citizens.

Presentation:

@dhinojosa


Ken Kousen

Ken Kousen is the author of “Making Java Groovy”, a book about using Java and Groovy together, available from Manning. As the President of Kousen IT, Inc, he teaches technical training courses and does consulting in Java and related open sources areas, specializing in Groovy, Grails, Spring, and Hibernate.

Presentation:

@kenkousen


Josh Long

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate. Josh is the author of Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, and Pro Spring Integration, and a SpringSource committer and contributor. When he’s not hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called “smart” systems. He blogs at blog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.

Presentation:

@starbuxman


Greg Luck

Greg founded Ehcache in 2003. He regularly speaks at conferences, writes and codes. He has also founded and maintains the JPam and Spnego open source projects, which are security focused. Prior to joining Terracotta in 2009, Greg was Chief Architect at Wotif.com where he provided technical leadership as the company went from a single product startup to a billion dollar public company with multiple product lines. Before that Greg was a consultant for ThoughtWorks with engagements in the US and Australia in the travel, health care, geospatial, banking and insurance industries. Before doing programming, Greg managed IT. He was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts. He is a Chartered Accountant, and spent 7 years with KPMG in small business and insolvency. Greg holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Masters in Information Technology.

Presentation:

@gregrluck


Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel wrote the first book on ‘enterprise Java’ in 1996, “Java Database Programming with JDBC.” He has also spoken at various conferences and participates in several local tech groups and startup groups. He’s the CTO of Atlanta based TripLingo (http://www.triplingo.com/). You can find him on twitter here: @prpatel
Pratik’s specialty is in large-scale applications for mission-critical and mobile applications use. He has designed and built applications in the retail, health care, financial services, and telecoms sectors. Pratik holds a master’s in Biomedical Engineering from UNC, has worked in places such as New York, London, and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

Presentation:

@prpatel


Jason Porter

Jason Porter is a software engineer currently working in the Java Enterprise Edition Space and Seam at Red Hat. His specialties include JBoss AS, Seam, CDI, JSF, Java EE, Gradle. He has worked with PHP, Ruby (both stand-alone and Rails), Groovy, XSLT the rest of the web language arena (HTML, CSS, JS, etc). His current position as Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat has him work primarily on Seam, however, he also contributes to JBoss Forge, Arquillian and Apache DeltaSpike.

Presentation:

@lightguardjp


Frederic Simon

Frederic Simon is best known as the Co-founder and Chief Architect of JFrog - the Artifactory Binary Repository creators, and JavaOne 2011 Duke Choice Awards winner.

Before founding JFrog in 2008, Fred founded AlphaCSP, the Java consulting firm in 1998 where he was the company’s global CTO, leading 5 branches worldwide and served as the visionary voice of the company.

Fred’s development experience goes back to 1992 and covers Java technologies evolution from day one as a programmer, Architect and Consultant.

As one of JFrog leaders, Fred encourages strong collaboration with leading open-source projects such as SpringSource, Grails and Gradle by providing them with the Artifactory Cloud platform, and fuels the Continuous-Integration ecosystem with open-source plugins for leading tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity & Bamboo.

When not on those, Fred hacks around new features for the core Java language, Java port of the popular sky rendering Stellarium project and other neat stuff.

Fred blogs at http://blogs.jfrog.org & http://freddy33.blogspot.com and tweets as @freddy33.
His speaking history: http://lanyrd.com/profile/freddy33/sessions/

Presentation:

@freddy33


Ram Singaram

Ram serves ThoughtWorks, Inc. as a Principal Consultant and currently heads up the Atlanta office. He was the head of Technology Consulting practice in North America. He plays the role of a Senior Architect and Technical Lead in the creation of large-scale distributed enterprise applications and the integration of disparate systems. Ram has served as a developer, technical lead and architect in high end solutions encompassing custom frameworks, systems integration and business to business solutions using various technologies. He has worked with large corporations and has mentored clients and team members on the best use of technology and Agile techniques. He speaks at conferences and at clients on various topics and also helps in technology assessments and pursuits. He has had over 19 years of experience with over 6 years in ThoughtWorks and has worked in the US, Canada, UK, Thailand and India. He is passionate about motorcycles and riding.

You can follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/ramsingaram

Presentation:

@ramsingaram


Donald Smith

Don brings worldwide enterprise software experience, ranging from small “dot-com” through Fortune 500 companies. Donald speaks regularly about Java, open source, community development, business models, business integration and software development politics at conferences and events worldwide including Java One, Oracle World, Sun Tech Days, Evans Developer Relations Conference, OOPSLA, JAOO, Server Side Symposium, Colorado Software Summit and others. Prior to returning to Oracle, Donald was Director of Ecosystem Development for the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting the Eclipse open source community.

Presentation:

@DonaldOJDK


Rossen Stoyanchev

Rossen is involved with the Spring MVC and the Spring Web Flow projects on a daily basis as a committer and as someone responding to JIRA requests and fielding forum questions. As a consultant and trainer he has helped many to learn and use the Spring Framework and related projects more effectively through teaching and consulting. His current home is Brooklyn where he frequents various NYC user groups.

Presentation:

@rstoya05


Josh Suereth

Josh Suereth is a Senior Software Engineer at Typesafe and the author of “Scala In Depth”. He has been a Scala enthusiast ever since he came to know this beautiful language in 2007. He started his professional career as a software developer in 2004 using programming languages like C++, Perl and Java. In 2009 he began writing the book “Scala In Depth” which provides practical support for using Scala in every day applications. Josh regularly shares his expertise in articles and talks.

Presentation:

@jsuereth


Burr Sutter

Burr is responsible for the JBoss Developer experience covering tools and frameworks. Burr is currently an Oracle Java Champion, previously President of the Atlanta Java Users Group, founder of the DevNexus conference as well as the Atlanta chapter of the IASA. He has been a presenter at numerous developer conferences such as JavaOne, Javapolis (Devoxx), No Fluff Just Stuff, Jazoon and the TDC in Sao Paulo.

Presentation:

@burrsutter


Andrew Trice

Andrew Trice is a Developer Evangelist with Adobe Systems. Andrew brings to the table more than a decade of experience designing, implementing, and delivering rich applications and immersive experiences for the web, desktop, and mobile devices.

Presentation:

@andytrice


Mark Ethan Trostler

I have been writing and testing code for over 20 years. From humble as a Computer Science/Philosophy double major at UC San Diego, to working at both startups (IPivot) and large corporations (Qualcomm, Intel, Redback Networks, Juniper Networks, and currently Yahoo!), I have always been dedicated to code quality. Currently as a Senior Principal Front End Engineer on the Yahoo Mail team, I help spearhead testing and quality for the latest rewrite of Yahoo Mail. I have spoken at several internal and
external conferences (Yahoo TechPulse 2010 and 2011, Yahoo’s Front End Summit, and at YUIConf 2011) about Testable Javascript and am the author of the Open Source Javascript Unit Test Environment (https://github.com/zzo/JUTE) and EventHub (https://github.com/zzo/EventHub).

Presentation:

@zzoass


James Ward

James Ward (http://www.jamesward.com) works for Typesafe where he teaches developers the Typesafe Stack (Play Framework, Scala, and Akka). James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James co-authored First Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and technical articles. Starting with Pascal and Assembly in the 80′s, James found his passion for writing code. Beginning in the 90′s he began doing web development with HTML, Perl/CGI, then Java. After building a Flex and Java based customer service portal in 2004 for Pillar Data Systems he became a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. In 2011 James became a Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com where he taught developers how to deploy apps on the cloud with Heroku. James Tweets as @_JamesWard and posts code at http://github.com/jamesward.

Presentation:

@_JamesWard


Joel Webber

Joel Webber is a co-creator of the Google Web Toolkit, and focuses on bringing the web to the cutting edge of interactive application development. When not hacking WebKit, wrestling compiler bugs, and dealing with browser quirks, he spends his spare time building games and graphics libraries. Prior to joining Google, he worked in mobile development and the game industry.

Presentation:

@jgw