Organizers
- Gunnar Hillert
- Vincent Mayers
- Sudhir Kamatkar
- Bruce Petro
- Summers Pittman
- Vincent Stoessel
- Burk Hufnagel
Gunnar Hillert
Gunnar Hillert is a member of technical staff (MTS) at SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc. He is a committer of the Spring Integration project and also contributes to the Cloud Foundry project.
A native of Berlin, Germany, Gunnar has been living in Atlanta for the past 10 years. He enjoys developing web applications but also has a background in business integration. He graduated in 2002 from the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin in applied computer science after defending his thesis.
If not playing with and learning the latest and greatest technologies, Gunnar is an avid gardener specializing in anything sub-tropical such as bananas, palm trees and bamboo. Furthermore, Gunnar has been learning Spanish for the past three years. He and his wife Alysa have one daughter and a son and are raising both tri-lingually (English, German, Spanish). As time permits, Gunnar blogs at: http://blog.hillert.com/
@ghillert
Vincent Mayers
Vincent has 18 years HCM & technology staffing experience in multiple verticals and countries. Currently he is the Chief Development Officer for Anteo Group and is responsible for Market and Sales Strategy/Leadership.
Vincent serves as the Sponsorship Committee Co-Chair for TechBridge an Atlanta based nonprofit which acts as a technology enabler for nonprofits. He is also a board member of the Atlanta Java Users Group and organizer of the South East’s premier software development conference http://www.devnexus.com
Vincent earned a Bachelor’s Degree (hons) in design from the University of the West Midlands in Birmingham and in another life was a full time athlete, competing at World Championship level in whitewater kayaking for a number of years.
Sudhir Kamatkar
Sudhir is a founder and CEO of Samarth Technologies an Information and Business Process Management consulting company. He has over 20 years of experience in delivering IT projects successfully. Sudhir is a developer at heart and technology enthusiast. He believes one day building an application would be as easy as defining a variable in java code.
Presently he is working on writing image data migration product based on cutting edge java technologies like camel, groovy and gwt. When not working or spending time with his family, he can usually be found at bookstores or library.
Bruce Petro
Bruce has over 19 years experience in numerous types of software design and development experience. His focus in object oriented design and coding started with years of enterprise software experience in Smalltalk, which, of course, led into years of experience in Java applications and web projects. Current focus: Start with a more user-centered design, use agile process and always solve problems with an elegantly simple solution (which is almost never simple to do). Bruce is currently a Sr. Software Engineer at LexisNexis in Alpharetta where he is working on a number of projects. Bruce enjoys agile projects with RIA user interface designs as well as excellent OOD. In the last couple years, this has led to projects using Flex and GWT technologies.
We moved to the Atlanta area about two years ago and since we live in west Cobb area, we are still trying to figure out how to drive in Atlanta without losing our sanity.
Summers Pittman
Summers is a Sr. Java developer for Red Hat. He works primarily on the AeroGear-Android libraries. He holds a BS in Computer Science and a MS in Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech. He maintains a blog at blog.sagaoftherealms.net.
Vincent Stoessel
Vincent Stoessel is a Java Developer that began building websites in the early days of the dot-com era. In 2000 he was hired to develop PHP web applications for the official site of then Vice-President Al Gore’s presidential bid. It was also during this time that he made the transition to full time Java server side development and began the journey toward software mastery. Since then, he has successfully lead great development teams to build enterprise software for his employers. Vincent is a passionate about the concept that Information Technology can enable people to reach a higher potential. During his off hours, he finds peace of mind with his family. photography and cycling. He is currently employed by the Huron Consulting Group and lives in South Metro Atlanta.
Burk Hufnagel
Burk has been creating positive user experiences since 1978 as a Software Architect and Developer. Burk spends much of his time designing and crafting software, and his goal is to deliver practical solutions for complex problems.
He has presented at several conferences (including DevNexus) and was voted a JavaOne Rock Star in 2010 for his talk on User Experience Anti-Patterns. Burk also co-wrote two books for O’Reilly, “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know” and “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know”.