Dimitris has 25 years of experience in IT and he is currently 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.

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Principal Engineer at Red Hat working with observability subjects in the Quarkus team. With over 15 years as an enterprise-level engineer, Bruno has worked as a Systems Architect, led QA and development teams, garnered skills in requirements analysis and development processes.

During his career path, he has contributed to open source projects like Apache TomEE, Eclipse MicroProfile and OpenTelemetry. He also continues to help organize the Coimbra Java Users Group (JUG) and the JNation conference in Portugal.

Andy, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, is a seasoned Java expert and enthusiastic about the Quarkus project. As a member of the Quarkus team, he is involved in one of the most innovative open source Java projects in the industry, designed for optimal performance in the cloud.

As a lead of the Quarkus Web/Full-Stack story, Andy is pushing to make Quarkus one of the best FullStack/Web frameworks on the market. His background in Java, combined with his interest in UI development, allows him to bring a unique perspective to his work.

Also a member of the Quarkus DevTools team, Andy is dedicated to providing developers with an exceptional experience in using Quarkus and its vast extension ecosystem.

With extensive knowledge of the Java landscape and a dedication to improving the developer experience, Andy is a knowledgeable speaker on software engineering and open source technologies.

From deep into the Nice mountains, Stéphane works for Red Hat on the Vert.x and Quarkus projects.

Passionate hacker in Java, C, Perl or Scheme. A web standards and database enthusiast, he implemented among other things a WYSIWYG XML editor, a multi-threading library in C, a mobile-agent language in Scheme (compiler and virtual machines), and some Web 2.0 RESTful services and rich web interfaces with JavaScript and HTML 5.

Eager to share, he is a frequent speaker at various conferences such as the Scheme Workshop, Nice University, Devoxx, JavaOne, JavaZone, JAX, many Java User Groups as well as the Riviera Java User Group he co-leads. A long-time open-source user and advocate, he worked on Ceylon, RESTEasy, Redpipe, Reactive Contexts, jax-doclets, stamps.js and various Play! Framework modules. He is also co-creator of the Riviera DEV conference.

He now works full time on various Vert.x and Quarkus projects for Red Hat.

Luigi Fugaro’s career in computer science started with his interest in video games on platforms like the Vic 20 and Atari ST1040. He was fascinated by how games worked, especially how to alter game codes for extra lives and energy. This sparked his journey into programming, leading to a diverse and successful career.

Luigi mastered many programming languages, including Fortran, Clipper, Visual Basic, Delphi, Java, Go and Python. He has a complex view of JavaScript, considering it almost a programming language, and respects HTML for its capabilities, though he doesn’t see it as a programming language.

His career expanded to include observability, monitoring, and data management. A significant time at Red Hat and Redis highlighted the importance of application performance, adding to his expertise.

Today, Luigi continues to seek new knowledge and challenges in technology. He works on many side projects, with his literary contributions standing out, and stays at the forefront of computer science innovation.

I have graduated from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in 2013, earning a master’s degree in Information and Software Engineering, and from that point started his professional IT career.

After that mainly worked with Java, Spring Framework, and MSSQL for creating various web applications, services, and other solutions.

Now days I am primarily team lead of backend development in Trilix d.o.o. with main focus on software architecture and exploring new technologies.

Hey, I’m Phillip. I’m a Software Engineer living in Victoria, Australia.

I work for Red Hat, where I spend most of my time on MicroProfile, SmallRye and Quarkus

I am a fan of technology, coffee and programming. I love dogs and music. To keep active I play squash. I was lucky enough to marry my best friend, Charmaine. She is also a geek :)

https://www.phillip-kruger.com/about

I’ve been working for many years in the computer field. In the last 15 years I’ve cultivated a strong passion in Java development and the under the hood details of OpenJDK, Linux and CPUs.

Big fan of DDD (Domain Driven Design) world, I’ve developed several Event-Sourcing high performance solutions in the medical and IoT field.

I’m an active member of various online communities on performance (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mechanical-sympathy), Senior Principal (Software) Performance Engineer and Performance Lead for Red Hat on Quarkus, Red Hat Top Inventor (2019).

I’ve collaborated to different projects related high-performance computing both as committer and contributors eg Quarkus, Vert-x, Netty committer, JCTools author, PMC of ActiveMQ Apache Artemis (Messaging Broker), HdrHistogram, JGroups-raft, … Recently become a proud JChampion.

Álvaro is a passionate developer and agile enthusiast with over 22 years of experience. He is now a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Labs, where he is a Micronaut committer, helping to maintain and evolve the open-source framework.

Before that, he was a Staff Engineer at VMWare, where he led the creation of new products to build, package, verify and publish software solutions with confidence in the VMware Marketplace. Previously, he spent some years working in different industries like gambling games (Odobo) and fintech (4Finance). Prior to that, he created his own company, Salenda, in 2005, a software factory and Atlassian Solution Partner headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Adaptavist acquired Salenda in 2019. Previously, he worked at companies like IBM BCS, Sun Microsystems or BEA Systems, where he was recognised as BEA Technical Director, an MVP awards program. He was also one of the initial founders and member of the Board of Directors of javaHispano in 2002, the world’s largest Spanish-speaking Java User Group.

Álvaro has spoken in 20 different countries at conferences like Devoxx BE/FR/MA, several Voxxed Days, GeeCON, JavaLand, JavaZone, jPrime, Codemotion and Commit Conf, among others. In his spare time, as well as coding and experimenting with new technologies, he likes to spend time with his wife and children, support CD Leganés football team, and play paddle tennis.

Kristjan Voje is a software developer passionate about Kubernetes applications and cluster deployment. With experience in both application development and cluster deployment, Kristjan has learned to navigate the complexities of the ecosystem.

His expertise extends to bare metal and isolated environments like vSphere, where he’s gained insights into overcoming deployment challenges. As a speaker, Kristjan shares practical tips and real-world examples, aiming to make technical concepts accessible to all.

Kristjan’s presentations focus on the challenges of deploying applications in air-gapped environments. He offers insights into deploying various Kubernetes clusters and explores solutions for locally hosting OCI images and artifacts.

Oto Brglez is an experienced software architect, engineering manager and consultant that helps companies build and evolve their products from zero to world dominance. His passion revolves around web applications involving large quantities of fresh data that can be rangled into new and exciting products.

He holds the admin position in the Slovenian Developers Facebook group - currently the most vibrant tech community in Slovenia with more than 14k members. He is also an active advisor of Slovenian Enterprise Found.

He also has 4 Scala certificates and loves to abuse computers and JVM with his functional code and sophisticated types.

Branko Mihaljević is an educator, consultant, manager, and entrepreneur, dealing with Java since 1996. After 12 years of teaching at UNIZG FER, where he received dipl. ing. (MS), Diploma in Study of Management (DSM), mr. sc., and dr. sc. (PhD) degrees, a few years of teaching at Algebra and VERN’ colleges, as well as 7 years acting as a co-owner and CTO of a development company, for the last 7 years he has been working as a College Professor and Research Assistant at RIT Croatia, one of the global locations of Rochester Institute of Technology, and leading his software consulting company.

He gained experience as a consultant, software architect, project manager, development lead, and researcher on various projects in the financial, telecom, traffic, public health, and satellite systems sectors. He is the author of more than a hundred scientific and professional papers, conference presentations, and popular Java-related articles. He collaborated on many research and professional projects, as well as delivered various university courses and professional workshops, and authored many educational materials. He is the president of the Croatian Java User Association (HUJAK).

Urban is an experienced R&D Manager and Head of Products @Kontron Slovenia for Mobile private networks as a bridge between business and technology. He loves building things from concept phase to production phase. His work includes also research and innovation in EU funded projects, software architecture design, platform selection, …

Urban and his team are long time organizers of MakeIT conference doing everything from marketing, talks selection, moderating…