Our MVBs (Most Valued Bloggers)
DZone's MVB program brings together a group of highly talented bloggers, authors, and technologists actively writing about topics of interest to the developer community. These people are recognized in the industry for their contributions and deep technical knowledge on subjects ranging from software design and architecture to programming on a range of platforms including Java, .NET, Ruby and others.
For more information about our MVB or how to join, please visit http://dzone.com/aboutmvb.
 | Ben Forta Ben Forta is Adobe Inc.'s Director of Platform Evangelism, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit series, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, Java Server Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in fifteen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and official study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide. |
 | Jonas Boner Jonas spends most of his time developing large scale financial systems as well as lecturing and speaking at developer conferences world-wide. He has worked at Terracotta, the JRockit JVM at BEA and is an active contributor to the Open Source community; most notably created the AspectWerkz aspect-oriented programming framework, committer to the Terracotta JVM clustering technology and been part of the Eclipse AspectJ team. |
| Frank Kelly Frank was born in Ireland and now lives in the USA. His initial training was in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin (so they're really to blame for this). He also has a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems and after realizing that computers were still as dumb as a bag of hammers realized that he had better go earn some money and stop fooling around. Right now he likes to think he is a part-manager, part-developer, part-architect developing applications for a leading vendor of systems that support global trading of various financial instruments because "code monkey" just doesn't sound as good. | |
 | Dan Dyer Dan Dyer is a professional software developer in the UK. He has been programming in Java since 1997. Most recently he has been involved in the design and development of Internet casino, poker and spread betting systems. Dan's other programming interests include artificial intelligence, particularly evolutionary computation, and functional programming in Haskell. He has authored, or contributed to, a number of open source Java projects. |
 | Ola Bini Ola Bini is a Swedish developer working for ThoughtWorks. His daily job includes working on JRuby, starting up a Swedish ThoughtWorks office and mucking around with Java and Ruby. In his spare time he spends most time on his language Ioke, working on one of several other open source projects or reading science fiction. Ola has presented at numerous conferences, such as JavaOne, Javapolis, JAOO, RailsConf, TheServerSide Java Symposium and more. He is the author of APress book Practical JRuby on Rails |
 | Misko Hevery |
 | Derek Young I am an architect at Kayak.com working mainly with Java. I focus on performance problems at work and occasionally on computer graphics as a hobby when I find the time. |
 | Christopher Bennage Christopher Bennage is the President and cofounder of Blue Spire Consulting, Inc., a Florida based software consulting firm specializing in .NET technologies, user experience, and interface design. Christopher began programming on his Texas Instrument in elementary school, but fell in love with computers with the advent of the Commodore Amiga. More recently he coauthored Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours with Rob Eisenberg. In his free time, Christopher is usually very distracted by a dozen different, competing creative ideas. He lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife, Sandra, and their three children. |
 | Pramod Subramanyan Pramod Subramanyan is a Staff Software Engineer in the RF & Communication software group at National Instruments, R&D, Bangalore where he works on high-speed software implementations of communication and DSP algorithms. When not writing RF software, he dabbles in compiler optimizations, GPGPU, software concurrency issues, and programming language theory. He obtained a B.E degree majoring in Electronics and Communication from R.V.C.E, Bangalore in 2006. |
 | Anthony Goubard Anthony Goubard is a freelance senior software engineer from Amsterdam. He is a Java developer since 1995. He has developed many softwares such as JLearnIt, Ant Commander or Decoration and is the main developer of the Web Services framework XINS. |
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 | Steven Lott Mr. Lott has been involved in over 70 software development projects in a career that spans 30 years. He has worked in the capacity of internet strategist, software architect, project leader, DBA, programmer. Since 1993 he has been focused on data warehousing and the associated e-business architectures that make the right data available to the right people to support their business decision-making. |
 | Mike Cottmeyer Mike is a Product Consultant and Agile Evangelist for VersionOne. Prior to joining VersionOne, Mike was a Senior Project Manager for CheckFree Corporation where he led a portfolio of projects for their online banking and bill payment business unit. Mike has a traditional project management background and has worked primarily with agile methodologies for the past four years. Mike is a certified PMP project manager and a certified ScrumMaster. Mike was involved with the creation of the DSDM Agile Project Leader certification, holds this certification at the Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner levels. Mike was recently named an honorary member of the DSDM consortium and serves on the board of APLN. |
 | Chris Spagnuolo Chris Spagnuolo has been working in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) field for nearly 15 years. If it involves GIS, he's probably done it...everything from field data collection to large scale enterprise GIS deployments. Through this experience, he has reached the conclusion that the most effective way to deliver value is by the implementation of agile practices. He believes strongly in the effectiveness of agile practices and he is leading a new group to evangelize the benefits of agile. |
 | Dmitriy Setrakyan Dmitriy Setrakyan manages daily operations of GridGain Systems and brings over 12 years of experience to GridGain Systems which spans all areas of application software development from design and architecture to team management and quality assurance. His experience includes architecture and leadership in development of distributed middleware platforms, financial trading systems, CRM applications, and more. |
 | Ryan Lanciaux Ryan is a Professional Software Developer in Northwest Ohio. Although he programs in several languages, his current area of focus is in C# and VB.NET. Ryan regularly contributes to the community through his website. |
 | Jurgen Appelo Jurgen Appelo is Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany (www.ism.nl), recently rated as the #1 fastest growing technology company in The Netherlands. He leads a horde of 50 software developers, development managers, project managers, consultants, quality assurance managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally. |
 | Frank Cohen Frank Cohen is the expert that information technology professionals and enterprises go to when they need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,) Ajax, and Web services. Frank is Founder of PushToTest, the open-source test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source project. PushToTest customers include Jackson Labs, eBay, General Motors, TIBCO, BEA, Microsoft and other Fortune 1000 companies. |
 | Ted Neward Ted Neward is the Principal at Neward & Associates, a developer services company. He consults, mentors, writes and speaks worldwide on a variety of subjects, including Java, .NET, XML services, programming languages, and virtual machine/execution engine environments. He resides in the Pacific Northwest. |
 | Scott Leberknight Scott is Chief Architect at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development, training, and consulting services company based in Reston, Virginia. He has been developing enterprise and web applications for over 13 years professionally, and has developed applications using Java, Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails and Python. His main areas of interest include object-oriented design, system architecture, testing, and frameworks of all types including Spring, Hibernate, Ruby on Rails, Grails, and Django. In addition, Scott enjoys learning new languages to make himself a better and more well-rounded developer a la The Pragmatic Programmers' advice to "learn one language per year." |
 | Toni Epple Toni Epple works as a consultant for Eppleton (http://www.eppleton.de) in Munich, Germany. In his spare time he's an active member of the Open Source community as a community leader for JavaTools community (http://community.java.net/javatools/), moderator of the XING NetBeans User Group (http://www.xing.com/group-20148.82db20), founder of the NetBeans User Group Munich (http://tinyurl.com/5b8tuu), member of the NetBEans Dream Team (http://wiki.netbeans.org/NBDTCurrentMembers) and blogger (http://www.eppleton.de/blog). |
 | Nick Boldt Nick Boldt is a release engineer, formerly with IBM Rational Software Canada. As a committer for the Eclipse Modeling Project, he's automated build processes, integrated web & build systems, and designed build tools to simply and streamline building, testing, and releasing project code. He is currently the release engineer for the Eclipse Modeling projects, which includes over two dozen individual component builds. An avid blogger and wiki writer, he has also contributed to the release engineering efforts for GEF, PDT, VE, RSE, and Dash. With 5 years' experience in automated Eclipse PDE build systems, Nick has decided to join Red Hat as the Productization Lead for JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio. He continues to contribute to Modeling and to the new Common Build project. When not at the console writing Bash, Ant, Java, or PHP, Nick can be found outdoors walking his two American Pointers, cycling, or kayaking on Lake Ontario. |
 | Ricky Ho As a technical architect of EBay, I have the opportunity to work with the some of the most challenging software engineering problems. I am motivated to share those techniques in my blog. |
 | Dan Pritchett |
 | Howard Lewis Ship Creator of the Apache Tapestry web application framework and the Apache HiveMind dependency injection container. |
 | Mike Desjardins Mike Desjardins is an Enterprise Java developer who lives in Portland, Maine, U.S.A. His primary focus is on ORM technologies, Database Design, and Web Services, as well as occasional dabbling in web design. Mike is also a proud parent and avid gardener. |
 | Sara Chipps Hi nerds, I’m Sara and I’m a girl developer, or a “gerd” if you will. I am an ASP.NET/C#/SQL software engineer. I like to think I have lots of hats though. I’ve worked on all different sized projects, high volume and low volume sites. Different types of databases. One thing that is very unique about the project I am on right now is that I’m doing it all by myself! I am used to working with a team of awesome developers. |
 | Boyan Kostadinov I was born in Bulgaria. My immediate family and I relocated to Syracuse, NY in 1995. I completed high school in Syracuse, and then continued my education at Alfred University. My major at Alfred University was Computer Science. I also obtained a minor in Management Information Systems (MIS) to bridge the gap between technology and the business world. One of my future goals is to extend that bridge by obtaining a Master's degree in Business Administration. |
| Khodve Dhananjay Nene has worked predominantly in the financial and telecom domains. He has always had a substantial interest in programming and continue to do so with great passion. Along the way he has worked with Citicorp Overseas Software Limited and AT&T. He has been a consultant for past 9 years and his last assignment was being the CTO and Head of Product Development of CashTech Solutions, a Cash Management Products company. He's currently focused on creating a startup. He is a Mechanical Engineer and subsequently finished his graduate business school from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. | |
 | Bart De Smet Bart was a Visual C# MVP, now he works at Microsoft on the WPF dev team as Software Developer Engineer. Prior to this new challenge, Bart was active in the Belgian community on many Microsoft technologies, most of the time focusing on CLR, languages innovation and frameworks. In his role, he's been speaking at various events and attended several international conferences including TechEd Europe, IT Forum and the PDC. |
 | Mikael Grev I am a Java developer, designer, public speaker (on GUI related topics) and a JAS 39 Gripen instructor fighter pilot. A somewhat unusual combination I guess, but I like challenges. I have created miglayout.com, migcalendar.com and Wing, a flight planning system used in several Air Forces. I find end user usability to be the most important part of a system and have therefore specialized in creating such applications. |
 | Niels Matthijs I spend my spare time combining the luxury life of having no kids and a wonderful girlfriend with the agonizing pressure of blogging under my Onderhond monicker. As a front-end developer I am raised and nurtured at Internet Architects, a Belgian company investing a lot of time and resources in making the web a better place |
 | Remy Sharp I live in the sometimes sunny Brighton (it's in the south of the UK, for those across the pond). The south coast is definitely my favourite place to be, but I spent some time on the outskirts of London whilst at University. I'm starting to focus on my own company Left Logic. It's a web development company with strong focus in usability, accessibility, clean design and powerful bespoke applications. |
 | Wayne Beaton Wayne Beaton is employed by The Eclipse Foundation where he works as an evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and agile development methodologies. He is also the editor-in-chief of Eclipse Corner, PMC Lead for the Technology Project, Project Lead for the Examples Project, and an advisor for osbootcamp. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader. |
 | Brian Rinaldi Brian Rinaldi is a software engineer for Universal Mind specializing in ColdFusion, Flex and AIR development. He is an Adobe Community Expert, Adobe Flex Champion and the manager of the Boston ColdFusion User Group. Brian also organized Flex Camp Boston. |
 | Kenn Hussey Kenn Hussey is a program manager for Embarcadero Technologies. He is a member of the Project Management Committee (PMC) for the Modeling project, lead of the Model Development Tools (MDT) sub-project, and a committer on the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) sub-project at Eclipse. He is also actively involved with the Object Management Group (OMG), representing Embarcadero on the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Unified Modeling Language (UML), and Meta-Object Facility (MOF) / XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) revision task forces, as well as the Information Management Metamodel (IMM) submission team. Prior to joining Embarcadero, Kenn was a senior software developer for IBM Rational Software and a senior designer / team leader for Nortel Networks. He holds a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Acadia University. Kenn’s blog can be accessed at http://kenn-hussey.blogspot.com/. |
 | Craig Walls |
 | Solomon Duskis I'm Solomon Duskis, NYC consultant and a Java/J2EE guy. I work at Sungard Consulting Services in NYC. The postings on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent the positions, strategies or opinions of my employer. |
 | Jason McDonald The product of two computer programmers, Jason McDonald wrote his first application in BASIC at the age of 7 and has been writing applications ever since. He has done everything from coding to architecture to leading and managing teams of engineers. Jason is the founder of the Charleston SC Java Users Group. |
 | Michael Michael is a founder of TargetProcess (agile project management software). His Mission is to provide solutions to real problems in agile projects. He wrote several books about web development and many articles related to almost all aspects of software development. |
 | Collin Fagan Collin Fagan is a software engineering contractor located in the Chicago suburbs. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Collin has worked in the Medical, Produce Warehousing and Telecommunications industries on a wide assortment of projects ranging from customized Linux thin clients to highly concurrent telecommunications control systems. His favorite language is Java and devotes much of his blogging time to Swing and Java2D. |
 | Pratik Patel |
 | Shafqat Ahmed I am .NET developer following it from the first PDC. I love to work on CLR related stuff, Interop and WPF related areas. I design software and I love to design reusable and extensible frameworks. I am married to the love of my life and living in Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
 | Daan van Etten Daan is a software developer who started programming about ten years ago, and just never stopped. He is currently working on software for the health care industry. Mainly developing in Java, doing some sidesteps to Python and user interface design. He likes Agile methodologies, and has worked for some years with Scrum. Besides, he absolutely loves experimenting with new (or old!) technology. On his previous job he worked on a business process modeling and web services platform, written in Java and C. Before that, he gathered experience from the telecommunication, media production and banking industries in various roles. Daan's blog can be found at http://stuq.nl |
 | Robert Enyedi Robert has several years of professional experience and a PhD in the field of automated software migrations. He is the co-founder and CEO of Numition Ltd., a start-up company specialized in developing software migrators. |
 | Jean-Francois Arcand Jean-Francois Arcand works for Sun Microsystems. He currently leads project Grizzly, an extended NIO based framework used in multiples products. He also works on Web 2.0 topics like Ajax performance and leads the Comet activities at Sun. Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Québec where life is perfect. |
 | Matt Raible Howdy! My name is Matt Raible and I am the developer and maintainer of this site. It mainly consists of my thoughts and opinions on the technologies I use and develop with. I'm currently the Lead UI Architect for LinkedIn and I'm not looking for additional work. I prefer to develop applications using Ajax, AppFuse and Java. I've recently started developing with Rails, Grails, Flex and GWT. |
 | Jon Davis Jon Davis (aka "stimpy77") has been a programmer, developer, and consultant for web and Windows software solutions professionally since 1997, with experience ranging from OS and hardware support to DHTML programming to IIS/ASP web apps to Java network programming to Visual Basic applications to C# desktop apps. |
 | Peter Friese Peter Friese is a software architect with itemis. He is a committer for the open source projects openArchitectureWare, Eclipse Modeling, FindBugs, and AndroMDA. As a software engineer and software architect, Peter has worked on a variety of industry projects in different domains such as banking, aerospace and transport. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and has authored a number of articles on topics like Eclipse, Spring, and model-driven software development. He can be contacted at peter.friese@itemis.de. |
 | James Shore James is a consultant, author, and speaker. He brings a rare combination of business savvy, deep technical understanding, and an engaging presentation style to his work, putting him in demand around the world. James is a prominent figure in the Agile community: he is an inaugural recipient of the prestigious Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice and one of the first ten people to sign the newly-released Agile Manifesto in 2001. James keeps a blog at jamesshore.com and is co-author of The Art of Agile Development. |
 | Gil Fink Gil Fink works as a senior developer and consultant at SRL Group. He holds a Microsoft MCPD enterprise applications developer title. He specializes in variety of Microsoft technologies especially in ASP.NET. He has successfully completed a lot of small to large enterprise applications using ASP.NET as a developer and as a team leader. Gil's interests include variety of things including Enterprise Library, WCF, LINQ, Entity Framework or whatever Microsoft is throwing at him. |
 | Jakob Jenkov Computers have been my hobby since I was 12. Now I'm a freelance Java developer. Like many other developers I am working on various private projects. Some are open source components (Butterfly Components - DI container, web ui, persistence api, mock test api etc.). Some are the tutorials at tutorials.jenkov.com. Yet others are web projects. I hold a bachelor degree in computer science and a master degree in IT focused on P2P networks. |
 | Peter Karich My name is Peter Karich and I studied physics at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. I finished my diploma thesis in April 2008. Now I am a freelancer and create Software with Java and C#. |
 | John Ferguson Smart John is a freelance consultant specialising in Enterprise Java, Web Development, and Open Source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organisations to optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting. |
 | Chris Keene Christopher Keene is an entrepreneur, executive and educator. He is the CEO of WaveMaker Software, an open-source framework for visual AJAX web development. |
 | Ted Goddard Ted received his PhD in mathematics in 1996, answering open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, and proceeded with post-doctoral research in component and Web-based collaborative technologies. Following work at Java Software, Sun Microsystems, he was a device management and XML architect at Wind River, participating in the IETF NETCONF design team. Ted currently participates in the JavaServer Faces and Servlet expert groups and is a senior software architect at ICEsoft Technologies developing ICEfaces, an Ajax framework for JavaServer Faces. |
 | Zviki Cohen He is a entrepreneur and a software architect from Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also a technology freak with about 20 years experience working with computers. He is currently working on his first private initiative in the area of software development tools. His vision is to maximize the abilities of software developers by providing pragmatic tools that enable them to get fast results. |
 | Vasanth Dharmaraj I am a Java Architect working for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. I have been developing with Java since 2000 and have been a big fan of Eclipse from 2002. I also use dot net for my hobby projects. I love technology and gadgets. |
 | Thomas Enebo Thomas Enebo has been a practitioner of Java for over a decade and he is the co-lead of the JRuby project. Thomas has also been happily using Ruby since 2001. In addition to working on JRuby, Tom is interested in improving the state of alternative languages on the Java Virtual Machine. |
 | David Green David Green is a software developer at MAKE Technologies creating developer tools based on Java and the Eclipse platform. He is primarily interested in MDD and MDE development techniques and how they can be effectively applied to the legacy modernization problem. |
 | Suresh Krishna Starting 2008, I am working with Oracle at San Francisco office. I am at Utilities division with my primary focus on frameworks and tools. Prior to Oracle, i worked with Pramati Technologies for almost 1.5 year. With the SOA and Mashups focus during 2007 and 2008, I was fortunate to know and work closely with industry’s best Mashup company (JackBe). I have spent nearly 6.5 years in Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany as an Automotive Industry Software Consultant. |
 | Varun Nischal http://nbguru.wordpress.com/about/ |
 | Michael Sync Michael Sync is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in Singapore. He like to explore new things and always wanna work with cool technologies. He is currently focusing on Microsoft Silverlight and Astoria (ADO.NET Data Service). He used to spend his free time for learning the latest technologies and helping others in Silverlight forum and Codeproject forum. |
 | Jeffrey Way Jeffrey Way is a freelance web developer based in Nashville, TN. When not losing his sanity staring at his computer, he enjoys spending time with his family and beautiful fiance. |
 | Doris Chen Dr. Doris Chen, a staff engineer and Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems with over 10 years industry experience, her expertise includes Web 2.0/Ajax/Comet, JavaServer Faces, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technologies, web services/SOA, Java ME platform wireless programming, Java technology performance tuning, grid computing, and web-based distributed computing. She speaks at major industry international conferences: JavaOne, Sun Network Conference, SD West Software Development, etc. |
 | Peter Zaitsev |
 | Martin Fowler |
 | Jim Wilson If I had all the money I'd ever need, I would still write software - every day. I love putting together the pieces of intricate software puzzles and creating novel and useful solutions for myself and those around me. When I find a solution to a problem which hasn't been well documented, I try to write about it to save the next poor soul from trudging through the same waters. We're all in this together, after all. |
 | Ryan de Laplante Ryan deLaplante is a software developer located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been working for IJW Software Corporation for over ten years creating enterprise systems for the hospitality industry. His favorite programming language is Java and mostly blogs about Java Enterprise Edition. |
 | Sasha Goldshtein Sasha Goldshtein is a Senior Consultant for Sela Group, an Israeli company specializing in training, consulting and outsourcing to local and international customers.Sasha's work is divided across these three primary disciplines. He consults for clients on architecture, development, debugging and performance issues; he actively develops code using the latest bits of technology from Microsoft; and he conducts training classes on a variety of topics, from Windows Internals to .NET Performance. You can read more about Sasha's work and his latest ventures at his blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha. Sasha writes from Herzliya, Israel. |
 | Linda Terlouw Ir. Linda Terlouw works as a Solution Architect in the SOA Consulting Group of Ordina, a large IT services provider in The Netherlands. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an Msc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from formal organizational models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program. |
 | Cedric Beust I am a software engineer at Google on the Android project and the creator of the Java testing framework TestNG. When I'm not updating this weblog with various software-related posts or speaking at conferences, I am busy snowboarding, playing squash, tennis, golf or volleyball or scuba diving. |
 | Manuel Selva What about me?? I am just a young 2 years experienced Eclipse/Java developer working for a semiconductor company named STMicroelectronics. My main developments inside my favorite IDE are related to visualization tools and thus I am used to step deeply inside SWT and JFace code ;o). I am located in France in the wonderful city of Grenoble. |
 | Dhananjay Nene With earlier stints with Citicorp and AT&T, and having spent the last 9 years as a Software Design Consultant, the last assignment being that of CTO and Head of Product Development at CashTech Solutions, I am now working on setting up a new startup. Having worked in Senior Management positions, and having managed large teams, I still continue to be very passionate about programming, design, architecture and all that comes under the umbrella of software engineering. |
 | Jared Richardson Jared Richardson is a programmer, speaker, author, and trainer. He helps teams build better software through his company Agile Artisans. As a recognized expert in the software industry, he has worked with both startups and software giants. He's been involved with various open source projects, with roles from contributer to founder. Jared recently founded the Agile RTP users group as a local outlet for the agile community in North Carolina. |
 | Amit Saha He currently works for Sun Microsystems, India since May, 2008 in the India Engineering Center (IEC). |
 | Keyvan Nayyeri Keyvan is a software architect and developer who has a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics. He was born in Kermanshah, Kurdistan, in 1984. Keyvan’s main focus is on Microsoft development technologies and their related technologies such as mark-up languages. He’s also experienced in practices and enjoys applying principles in his works very much. Keyvan has a serious passion for research, community activities and open-source software. As a result, he is an author for some famous .NET communities and has published various articles and tutorials on them. He is also a team leader and developer of several famous .NET open-source projects where he tries to learn many things through building software for special purposes. Keyvan is also an author and technical editor for John Wiley & Sons/Wrox Press and has worked on several titles including Beginning ASP.NET MVC, Professional Visual Studio Extensibility, Professional Community Server and Professional Visual Studio 2008. He is also a honored award-winning community leader who has been recognized as a Microsoft VSX Insider and Telligent Community Server MVP. Keyvan has a serious interest for uncommon and complex problems and loves to write solutions for such scenarios that heavily rely on algorithm and complex implementations with practices. One of his works in this field is Waegis, an online anti-spam service for sites, blogs and forums that works on top of mathematical and AI methods and is an enterprise .NET solution written completely by himself. When he’s off from coding, he enjoys blogging, reading technical books, listening to music, and playing video games. |
 | Tomas Kramar Tomas Kramar lives in Slovakia, where he works for a company developing software for a major local telecommunication provider. He is also a student at the Slovak University of Technology. |
 | Alex Miller Alex Miller lives in St. Louis. He writes code for a living and currently work for Terracotta Tech on the Terracotta open-source Java clustering product. Prior to Terracotta he worked at BEA Systems and was Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His main language for the last decade has been Java, although Alex have been paid to program in several languages over the years (C++, Python, Pascal, etc). |
 | chander prakash |
 | Sebastien Arbogast My name is Sébastien Arbogast, I’m 26 and I’m an IT consultant for Axen in Brussels, Belgium. I’ve been working there since I graduated in Computer Science Engineering from the “Institut National des Sciences Appliquées” in Rennes, France. |
 | Janko Jovanovic Janko started programming in 1989 working in Clipper ’87 and dBase III+ database. From 1991 to the end of 2002 he was envolved in various projects as a freelancer going through requirements analysis, documenting, development, training and other phases. From 2002 he began using Microsoft technologies intensively and worked on large number of projects in several companies. Currently he is working as a senior software developer and develops solutions using cutting edge technologies. |
 | Jason Rudolph Jason Rudolph is a Principal at Relevance and is author of the book, Getting Started with Grails. Jason speaks frequently at software conferences and user groups, and he has more than nine years of experience in developing software solutions for domestic and international clients of all sizes, including start-ups, Dow 30 companies, and government organizations. Jason holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. |
 | Kelly Waters Kelly Waters is Head of Web Solutions for Reed Business Information (UK), the world's largest business-to-business publisher. Implementing agile development has transformed his department of more than 100 people. Prior to joining Reed Business, Kelly was CTO for Glass's Information Services, Europe's leading provider of information to the automotive industry, most famous for Glass's Guide (the UK's bible for used car prices). Kelly has been in software development for more than 20 years. He is a well-known narrator of agile development principles and practices, as a result of his popular blog 'All About Agile'. He is also a voluntary business advisor for Young Enterprise, an organisation that helps people gain valuable business experience through practical projects. |
 | Jay Fields Jay Fields is a software developer and consultant at ThoughtWorks. He has a passion for discovering and maturing innovative solutions. His most recent work has been in the Domain Specific Language space where he's delivered applications that empowered subject matter experts to write the business rules of the applications. He is also very interested in maturing software design through software testing. |
 | Jeffrey Ricker Jeffrey Ricker is an experienced technology development executive with 15 years of leadership in defense and the private sector. He is the principal of Jeffrey Ricker LLC, providing expertise in Eclipse, RCP and OSGi to Fortune 500 and start-up clients. Previously, he was the founder of Distributed Instruments and XML Solutions Corp. |
 | Rob Williams |
 | Pete Johnson Pete Johnson created one of the first web applications ever built inside Hewlett Packard during the mid 1990's and has had the good fortune to work with over 400 engineers all over the world, write articles for a variety of publications, and present topics at trade shows. He served as the HP.com Chief Architect for two and a half years before a reorganization brought him his present responsibilities as the Marketing and Internet Platform Services IT, Portals and Applications Chief Architect (try fitting that on a business card). |
 | Sadek Drobi Sadek Drobi is a software engineer specialized in design and implementation of enterprise applications. Mostly interested in solutions for bridging the gap between business and developers (e.g. agile, DSL, domain driven design) he is currently working on a research proposal with a focus on language oriented programming and multiparadigm design. Sadek works as a consultant at Valtech. Passionate about his profession but also about photography, he publishes a technical blog at www.sadekdrobi.com and maintains a photo gallery http://photos.sadekdrobi.com |
 | Dan Wilson Dan Wilson, principal partner of DataCurl LLC, began his IT career at a fast-paced start-up during the dotcom heyday. He has since then held senior program and development positions in Technical Consulting, Health Care, Online Publishing and Government Contracting. Dan is an avid participant in technology communities; currently serving on the board for the Triangle ColdFusion User Group in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. |
 | Alex Neihaus |
 | Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz VP R&D of xsights (www.xsights.com) Arnon Rotem Gal-Oz has more than 19 years of experience managing, architecting and building large scale, mission critical, distributed systems. Before joining XSIGHTS, Arnon worked as the development manager of the Biometrics line in Rafael. Prior to that, he worked in various technical and managerial roles in large corporations including Microsoft, Amdocs and Matrix. |
 | Torbjörn Gannholm I have been writing code since 1980. In 1999, I learned Java and after discovering IntelliJ the love was complete. XML and XSLT was a revelation in 2000, too bad the standards committees have done so much damage since. Contributed to the Flying Saucer open source XML and CSS rendered and published an open source XSLT generator, weffo. Currently employed by Google. |
 | Alex Ruiz Alex Ruiz is a Software Engineer in the development tools organization at Oracle. Alex enjoys reading anything related to Java, testing, OOP, and AOP and has programming as his first love. Before joining Oracle, Alex was a consultant for ThoughtWorks. |
 | Patrick Paulin Patrick Paulin is a trainer and consultant specializing in modular technologies such as OSGi and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. He spends much of his time offering the RCP Quickstart course, which is meant to get software developers up to speed with Eclipse RCP. Patrick is also a regular speaker at technology conferences such as EclipseCon and Eclipse World. |
 | Rickard Oberg Rickard Oberg is popular among Java developers. He has given seminars at all main Java conferences world wide. He worked as an architect at JBoss and other popular OpenSource Java frameworks, and wrote a book on RMI. In recent years, he has become famous as an Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) crusader. He has worked with bleeding edge AOP in a portal product that has become a great commercial success, and is currently working on Qi4j at Jayway. |
 | Peter Pilgrim's Weblog Peter is the founder and organised of the Java Web Users Group (JAVAWUG). In 2007, he was nominated by his fellow peers on the Sun Java Champions program. Peter is a Sun Certified Java Architect for the Java EE 5 platform. He has been writing Java programs since 1997. He has delivered talks on JavaFX for the Erlang Exchange, CommunityOne , San Francisco and the ACCU Oxford Conference . Peter writes the regular World View Series for the ACCU Magazine, CVu UK. Peter currently works full time for Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets in the City of London. |
 | Debasish Ghosh Debasish specializes in leading delivery of enterprise scale solutions for various clients ranging from small ones to Fortune 500 companies. He is the technology evangelist of Anshin Software (http://www.anshinsoft.com) and takes pride in institutionalizing best practices in software design and programming. He loves to program in Java, Ruby, Erlang and Scala and has been trying desperately to get out of the unmanaged world of C++. |
 | Kirk Knoernschild I’m an industry analyst at Burton Group. For 15 years, I worked in the trenches on real software projects. I believe software development is an amazing profession. I take a keen interest in design, architecture, application development platforms, agile development, and the IT industry in general, especially as it relates to software development. I also enjoy experimenting with new technology, whether it be the the cool new framework or tethering my smartphone to my Mac via Bluetooth to get an internet connection. |
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