JBoss Developer Community
Learn more about our the great developers that make up the JBoss Community. The tremendous depth of knowledge and broad skill sets of these skilled developers help drive our open source community in bold new directions.
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[Permlink] Aaron Walker Country: Australia Bio: I was born in Butterworth, Malaysia in 1973 but mostly grew-up in Canberra. My Dad built our first computer when I was about 7 so I guess I always been interested in computing in one form or another. I have a background in electronics and studied Robotics Engineering & Computer Science at Swinburne University in Melbourne. I started using Java in 1998-99 and I guess I have never really looked back. I have got into enterprise software development/architecture over the last 3-4 year specializing in Integration. I have a particular interest in messaging technologies. I'm my spare time and I enjoy traveling and playing inline hockey. |
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[Permlink] Adam Warski Country: Poland Bio: I was born in 1983 in Warsaw, Poland, and I am currently attending University of Warsaw, where I am a Ph.D. computer science student. I started work for JBoss as an intern in april 2005, and luckily I still am on board. Apart from computers and mathematics, I like mountain-activities like skiing in winter and hiking in summer. I also enjoy reading books and sports like tennis and swimming. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Adrian Brock Country: UK Bio: Born in Doncaster, England 1969 (one day after Linus Torvalds). Graduated from the University Manchester with Joint Honors mathematics and physics in 1991. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Ales Justin Country: Slovenia Bio: Born in Ljubljana in 1979, graduated in mathematics from University of Ljubljana. Started serious programming at the university, where he was also heavily involved in ACM competitions, which are now replaced by TopCoder's. Fell in love with Java 6 years ago and spent most of his time developing information systems, ranging from customer service to energy management. He joined JBoss, a division of Red Hat, in 2006 to work full time on the Microcontainer project. Other areas of interest include JBoss Seam, as a JSR-299 WebBeans EG member, and OSGi as JBoss representative on JSR-291. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Alex Fu Country: Bio: Alex Fu got Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China through 1989-1999. He worked in SilverStream (Novell) app server team and now is a member of the Novell Identity Products development team and contributes to JBoss Messaging & JGroups. |
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[Permlink] Alex Loubyansky Country: Ukraine Bio: I was born in 1980 in Kiev by great woman Irene. She taught me Russian. When I grew up I met another Irene and she taught me English. Then I met JBoss and it taught me J2EE. Since that I mostly think in Java. In 2002 I graduated National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI" the faculty of Applied Math and got degree The specialist in computer engineering. Currently, I work as a system architect and lead Java-developer and trying to code the future with JBoss. Yes, I guess, it's my best life ;) Projects: |
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[Permlink] Anatoly Akkerman Country: USA Bio: Born in the former USSR in 1976. Since 1993 living in New York, USA. Obtained a B.S. in Physics from the City College of New York in 1997. Entered Ph.D. program in Computer Science at NYU in 1998, completed M.S. in CS in 2000. Currently working as a Junior Research Scientist with the Parallel and Distributed Computing Group at NYU (http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pdsg/). Got involved with JBoss to build an infrastructure needed for some of the research topics studied. |
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[Permlink] Andreas "Mad Andy" Schaefer Country: USA Bio: I was born in Switzerland 1964 and grew up in Liestal. After getting started as a software engineer on an IBM S/36 in 1989 I work as Oracle DBA and Oracle Forms programmer till I changed to DEC (now Compaq .-( ) in 1995. During my first Web application project (VB application with HTML frontend) I bought a book about JavaScript but it was about Java (nobody knew then the difference). So I got hooked on Java and since then Java became by life. At the beginning of year 2000 I moved Los Angeles (near Farmers Market), |enjoy the great weather (sun, sun and sun) and still create Java code. |
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[Permlink] Andrew C. Oliver Country: USA Bio: Andrew C. Oliver is a professional cat herder who moonlights as a software developer. He's been developing in Java since 1998, primarily as a consultant for large companies with the inevitable dot-com thrown in between. He is a former member of the Apache Software Foundation, former member of the Apache Jakarta PMC, and founder of the Jakarta POI project. When he's not off globetrotting to provide training, consulting and support to JBoss, Inc. customers, you can find him bit-twiddling with some obscure file format or protocol, or JBoss Mail Server. Andy resides in Durham, NC with his wife and two stepsons. In his spare time he reads Churchill, other biographies and histories, goes to plays with his wife, plays with his kids, goofs in his blog, and plays Vega Strike. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Bela Ban, PhD Country: USA Bio: Born in Switzerland in 1965, I did my Masters and PhD (in network management) at the University of Zurich. After a stint at IBM Research and various smaller companies, I moved to Ithaca, NY, for a 2-year post-doc at Cornell. Instead of returning to Switzerland, I moved on to God's Own Country (California) where I worked as a principal software engineer at Fujitsu Network Communications (EMS/NMS systems) until 2003. In October 2003 I joined JBoss, Inc. as the lead for JGroups, JBoss/Cache and Serverless JMS. My interests include network protocols, group communication, Linux, Java, trail running, triathlon and beerathlon. If not hacking on JGroups I can be found spending time with my family. JGroups is the distributed framework basis for JBoss's advanced clustering and failover features. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Ben Wang Country: USA Bio: Ben got his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering specializing in high-speed and parallel computation. And like a couple guys in the JBoss, Inc., he also found that the world of software development attracted him. After 2+ years of research work in Virginia, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area in California in 1997. Since then, he has worked in various startups in fields such as engineering simulations, VoIP telecom, mobile Internet solutions, and network management. Ben came across JBoss in one of his previous work when he was looking for an alternative J2EE server. He was hooked immediately to the beauty of the architecture. He joined the JBoss, Inc. on November 2003. Currently he is working on JBossCache and clustering. When he has time, he spends much of it on golf. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Bill Burke Country: USA Bio: Born in 1971, Bill fell in love with middleware when he was introduced to DCE while at the parent company of Open Environment Corporation. He later went on to being a core member of the Orbix2000 team at Iona, where he helped them build some of their CORBA products. After weathering a few failed internet startups building J2EE applications, Bill stumbled into JBoss and helped them with their clustering architecture and EJB container. Now, as lead architect of JBoss 4, his main focus is on bringing AOP concepts and technology to the JBoss application server. Bill is co-author of O'Reilly's "JBoss 3.2 Workbook", and has numerous other in-print and on-line publications. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.C.S. from Northeastern University in Boston in 1994. In his spare time, now that JBoss is the full-time job, Bill likes to hang with his wonderful wife and is a rabid football fan being a New England Patriots season ticket holder for the past 10 years. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Bob McWhirter Country: USA Bio: Bob McWhirter grew up in middle Georgia on a diet of grits and moonpies. After traveling the south to find his way, he ended up in Asheville, North Carolina. Along the way, he founded the Codehaus and brought his Drools rule-engine into the JBoss family. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Boleslaw Dawidowicz Country: Poland Bio: He was born in 1983 in Poland. Currently attending Warsaw University of Technology and planing to graduate with an engineering and Master degree in CS in 2007. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Brian Stansberry Country: USA Bio: My background is in International Business and East Asian Studies, with a B.A. from Michigan State and an M.A. from Stanford. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Charlton Barreto Country: Bio: Born in Sao Paulo, Brasil, I did my B.S. in Maths and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and my Ph.D. (in distributed management) at Columbia University. After a stint at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, then at various startups in Silicon Valley, I moved to England to work on a post-doc at Cambridge University. I then returned to California to work at Visigenic, which was later acquired by Borland, working extensively on CORBA and EJB technologies. During this time, I came across JBoss and my interest began in earnest. First working on the J2EE Connector Architecture implementation, I moved on to JBossCache and JBoss Clustering. My technology interests include automation, business process management, choreography, and SOA, which keeps me involved in developing standards in the W3C and OASIS. My other interests include photography, flickring, backpacking, yoga, and, of course, travel. |
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[Permlink] Cheyenne Weaver Country: USA Bio: Cheyenne Weaver graduated with a BFA from CalArts in 2004. Recent work includes user interface design, brand identity and graphic design, illustration, print and sculpture relating to her work with various non-profits involved locally and in developing countries. Upcoming projects include an exhibit entitled Against the Grain , at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Damaged Romantics , held at the Blaffer Gallery in Houston, and most recently the Machine Project Guide to Cultural History and Natural Sciences , exhibited at the Pomona Museum of Art. Cheyenne Weaver lives and works in Austin, Texas. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Chris Kimpton Country: UK Bio: I started out my career very respectably - degree from Oxford, graduate training as a Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse. But then got lured into the dark side as programmer with an American Bank. From there it's been downhill - bank after bank after bank.... When not at the keyboard, I like to spend time with my partner, Sandra and our friends and family - such as my niece Erica in the picture - who thinks the London Eye is "boombeat"! Erica also thinks our PlayStation 2 is cool - which is even better! |
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[Permlink] Christian Riege Country: Germany Bio: Born February 10th, 1973. First contact with a computer when still in Kindergarten (my dad worked at the university computer center back then and one of my favorite toys were the empty crystal-blue-plastic cases that the magnetic tapes came in). Started programming for fun in the early 80's, for money since 1988. Studied Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern and Cologne. JBoss related stuff: We use JBoss as our development and production server, providing services to the freight forwarding industry. Currently maintaining the EJB Verifier. |
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[Permlink] Christoph Jung, Ph.D. Country: Germany Bio: Dr. Christoph Georg Jung is born 71-06-24 in Quierschied/Saar, Germany. He holds a Diploma Degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.) from the University of Saarbracken, 1996. Throughout 1996-1999, Christoph has been a member of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) and the Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft located in Kaiserslautern and Saarbracken. In 2000, he received a Doctoral Degree in AI/Software Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Saarbacken. Since 1999, Dr. Jung is employed as a Software Engineer at infor business solutions AG, Friedrichsthal and Karlsruhe, where he shapes the technological basis of a next generation runtime engine for Internet Business Applications (IBA). So far, he has contributed over 30 relevant publications in the intersection of AI, multiagent systems, planning, computational logic and modern software engineering. Current interests include: Declarative Runtime Environments for Component- and Object-Oriented Business Logic XML-based middleware Agent technology UML-based Iterative Software Engineering |
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[Permlink] Claudio Vesco Country: Bio: I was born in 1970 in Italy and graduated at Padua's University in Ingegneria Informatica (Software Engineering). Now, I work for a financial service company: I analyse, plan and make JEE applications. |
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[Permlink] Damon Sicore Country: USA Bio: Born in Fort Worth, TX in 1972, and remembering nothing of it, I've lived all over the U.S., from CA to NY. I received my engineering degree in Computer Science from Texas A+M, escaped from that hell, and ran away to SiValley. I gave up working for closed source companies to become a full time open source consultant at the height of the tech boom. I discovered EJBoss at the same time, and somehow managed to make a living doing nothing but consulting on JBoss. I now live in Austin, TX and I hope I don't have to move ever again. After spending over ten years finding a way to get paid to write open source software, I found my home at JBoss Labs as Lead. I offer sacrificial animals and children daily in order to continue the efforts of JBoss Labs. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Dan Christopherson Country: USA Bio: Dan Christopherson (danch) is a Technical Architect with nVISIA, an Object Technology constultancy in the Midwest US. His career in software came about mostly because that was what he was doing anyway. He was attracted to the JBoss effort out of his conviction that the infrastructure that supports mission critical software should be open source. Experience with commercial software only serves to strengthen that conviction. When not working to advance software technology (or embarass himself), Dan sidelines as a beer aficianado and a motorcycle enthusiast. |
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[Permlink] Dan OConnor Country: USA Bio: Dan O'Connor is an independent software developer writing J2EE products for various markets. He became involved with JBoss 1.0 when he realized its potential for making the application server a commodity, which would reduce the cost and extend the reach of the products he developed. He sees even greater potential in the pluggable architecture of JBoss 2.0, which can potentially leverage the normal open source processes to make this free and open product the best one on the market. Along with his contributions to JBoss, you can find him contributing to the ejb-interest list, and writing on server-side Java for various publications. |
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[Permlink] Daniel Schulze Country: Germany Bio: A 25 years old Java disciple, Daniel Schulze is studying Computer Science at the University for Applied Sciences in Leipzig (D). |
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[Permlink] David Maplesden Country: New Zealand Bio: I was one of twin boys born in 1977 in Auckland, New Zealand. I gained a BSc(Hons) in 1999 and then MSc with distinction in Computer Science in 2000 from the University of Auckland. I am currently working in the 'real world' at Orion Systems NZ Ltd where we build health information and messaging systems while I take a (probably only temporary) break from study. Got interested in the JBoss project when we were looking for a JMS implementation for a new product development, found JBossMQ and decided to try it out. Then started one day tracking down a bug in the source code and (two weeks later) ended up with a fairly major rewrite of the JBoss delivery mechanisms and an extra persistence mechanism or two. Fanatic about most sports (even the crazy American ones) and love reading Raymond E. Feist books. Have itchy feet and want to travel the world programming, studying and sampling local beverages. |
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[Permlink] Dimitris Andreadis Country: Greece Bio: Dimitris Andreadis studied Computer Science at Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland. Dimitris served in the Navy for 2 years and the Telecoms software industry for another 7 years while working for Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. He has been a JBoss addict since v2.4 and a contributor since v3.2 and so he joined JBoss in 2004 in the midst of the J2EE 1.4 certification frenzy to become a core developer focusing on (and around) the JBoss microkernel. His main interest is in the core application server platform and the management aspect of it. He has worked extensively with JMX and CORBA technologies and represents JBoss on JSR-284. He is currently the Project Lead for the JBoss Application Server. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Edson Tirelli Country: Brazil Bio: Edson was born in Aguas de Chapeco, Brazil, in 1978. He got a B.S. degree in Computer Science in 1999 from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. He had his first contact with JBoss and with Open Source world in 2002, and in 2004 started working with JBoss Rules (Drools at that time) first as a user and after that as a contributor. His areas of interest are A.I, specially rules engines, compilers, and middleware tools in general. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Elias Ross Country: U.S. Bio: I'm a software architect with m-Qube, now owned by Verisign. My company works on mobile phone messaging services. When the company was starting up, JBoss 3.0 was an obvious choice. Having worked with it for about four years, I've had a chance to fix a number of bugs and create features for handling message delivery. I've also acquired enough experience with it to be called the JBoss "guru" at work. |
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[Permlink] Emmanuel Bernard Country: France Bio: After graduating from Supelec (French "Grande Ecole"), Emmanuel has spent a few years in the retail industry where he started to be involved in the ORM space. He joined the Hibernate team in 2003 and is now a core developer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Flavia Rainone Country: Brazil Bio: Flavia was born and lives in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2003 she got a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo, where she is currently working for a M.S. degree in CS. Her thesis topic is dynamic AOP with JBoss AOP. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Francisco Reverbel Country: Brazil Bio: Francisco is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in EE and Master in Mathematics from the University of Sao Paulo, he worked for many years as a software developer at brazilian companies before returning to school for a doctoral program in the USA. Francisco did his Ph.D. work (in ORB/ODBMS integration) as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. His current research interests are distributed objects and database systems. He implements the IIOP integration in JBoss. Francisco loves music and enjoys playing his acoustic guitar. |
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[Permlink] Frederick N. Brier Country: USA Bio: Born in 1960 and learning to program at the age of 13, Fred has always been something of a geek. Never having met a language he didn't like, he formalized his love of computers with a B.S. in C.S. at Georgia Tech. His time is now spent designing and implementing heterogeneous distributed systems, raising a future Wizard, and in his copious free time, controlling his house and Lego robots with Java. Fred says "JBoss is cool, because if the feature isn't there, you just add it." Fred works on Flash/JBoss integration. |
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[Permlink] Galder Zamarreno Country: Switzerland Bio: Galder was born in Bilbao, a northern Spanish city, where he attended the ESIDE faculty at University of Deusto to study Computer Science. After spending the last 6 months of his degree in Bath University, he joined a UK retail banking software solutions company as a graduate software developer. His Java knowledge acquired at university opened the doors for him to become part of the J2EE development team where he learnt about JBoss Application Server, acquiring in depth knowledge about EJB, JCA and Clustering areas. Since joining in February 2006, Galder has expanded his JBoss Clustering knowledge including JGroups, JBoss Cache and Mod_JK, while providing support to JBoss customers and taking on some of the development tasks in these areas. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Gavin King Country: Australia Bio: Gavin King is the founder of the Hibernate project. He was born in a country town named Mudgee in 1974 and has never been there since. He is currently based in Melbourne, Australia - the city with the world's highest ratio of restaurants to people. Gavin's interest in persistence was sparked at the age of 11 when his early software development efforts were all destroyed due to the notorious unreliability of the Commodore 64 cassette drive. Gavin studied mathematics at Monash University before deciding to do something useful instead. He now works for JBoss, Inc., developing Hibernate and the new Hibernate-based CMP engine - and hopes he has finally proved his usefulness. He is co-author of the book, Hibernate in Action, to be published by Manning. He is also involved in the EJB3 expert group. Gavin always enjoys writing about himself in the third person. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Gerald Broze, PhD Country: Germany Bio: Gerald is a software architect at Xtradyne Technologies AG, a German middleware security company. When not doing security work, Gerald leads the development team for JacORB, the free IIOP implementation used in JBoss. JacORB is jointly developed by Xtradyne and Freie Universitat Berlin. Gerald did his PhD in access control models at Freie Universitat and lives with his wife and two sons in Berlin. He has been developing in Java since it appeared in the early nineties and is a co-author of Wiley and Son's "Java Programming with CORBA". |
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[Permlink] Heiko W. Rupp Country: Germany Bio: I am from Stuttgart, Germany, the city known for Porsche and Mercedes. Before joining JBoss/RedHat I used to work for syngenio (www.syngenio.de), a systems integrator, that is also a JBoss SI partner. I had my first contact with JBoss when working at a manufacturer of SLM tools, where we wanted to also monitor java application servers. Looking for JMX automatically lead me to JBoss and Juhas excelent book. In April 2003 I was at an advanced training in Paris and met Marc and the gang. Was much fun :) Projects: |
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[Permlink] Ivelin Ivanov Country: USA Bio: Ivelin is a member of the JBoss core team and serves as Director of Product Development. His responsibilities include overseeing the development process, resources and unified product roadmap. Ivelin is community leader for Java.net Communications. He is also member of the JSR 240 Expert Group - JAIN SLEE 1.1 and founder of the open source implementation Mobicents. Ivelin participates in the Eclipse initiative as member of the WTP Requirements Committee. In the open source community Ivelin has contributed to JBoss, Apache Cocoon, jXPath, GNU QEXO, XMLForm and FreeBuilder IDE. |
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[Permlink] James Cobb Country: USA Bio: I was born in Houston, Texas 1969. I graduated from the University of Houston with honors with a B.F.A. in Graphic Communications and spent several years doing traditional print graphic design/corporate branding before becoming infatuated with multi-media. Spent my formative web years pursuing user interface design and web branding during the height of the Internet boom. I've worked on a wide variety of corporate websites, portals and intranets. Prior to joining JBoss, designed user interfaces for CRM and website management applications for the automotive industry. I'm dedicated to making JBoss.org the best resource possible for the open source community. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Jeff Haynie Country: USA Bio: Jeff is the co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity, Inc., a speech and telephony middleware platform, based on JBoss. Jeff has over 15 years of software experience working with companies such as CSX, MCI/Worldcom and Oracle. In the wild days of the Internet, Jeff was the original architect and patent author of web measurement technology, MediaMetrix and previously the CTO of eHatchery, an Internet technology incubator. Jeff is married and has 2 children in Atlanta, GA. Jeff currently is a leading industry expert on VoiceXML, SALT, SIP and other speech related standards and serves on the W3C Voice Browser Working Group. |
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[Permlink] Joe Shevland Country: Australia Bio: Based in Tasmania, Australia, Joe was involved in the early stages of JBoss with Marc writing the JAWS relational database code. Joe's primary interests include any form of Java coding, database and web development as well as excercising his elbow at the pub. Forming part of the directorship of KPI Logistics in Hobart, Joe has also dealt extensively with clients and government bodies and enjoys the challenges that information technology brings with it. |
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[Permlink] John Mazzitelli Country: USA Bio: I am a currently focusing on the implementation of the new JBoss Operations Network. In 1992, I received a B.S.E.E from Rutgers University and since then have worked mainly in the middleware arena. I've served in many diverse positions such as trainer, consultant, J2EE support engineer, team manager and software developer. I've contributed some work to the JBoss/Remoting open source project and have written an article on the subject. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Juha Lindfors Country: Finland Bio: Juha Lindfors is the Training Director for JBoss, Inc. and the lead architect of the JBoss JMX project, at the very heart of JBoss micro-kernel architecture (the "spine"). Juha Lindfors is working on JBoss since the very beginning of the project (at that time called EJBoss), well before its first 1.0 release. He is also the author of the first JMX book published by SAMS Publishing. Juha Lindfors regularly gives advanced training around the globe. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Julia Firsova Country: Russia Bio: Meet Julia Firsova, 93-year-old witch from a small village buried in the eternal snow of Central Russia. She holds a masters degree in crowd analysis and manipulation from Lipetsk University with a master's thesis "On efficient methods of irreversible human-to-frog mappings", so don't make her sad. In her spare time (ie, when she's not feeding her black cat and not doing maintenance to her broom), she turns into a beautiful girl, does amazing Web design and signs that Neoline (http://neoline.ru). So if you want to help turning a witch into a beautiful girl, go order some design from her; and to turn a girl to witch, go marry someone. :-) |
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[Permlink] Julien Viet Country: France Bio: Born in 1974 in France, Julien Viet early started computer science with his father's Apple IIe and continued with an Atari, an Amiga and finally a PC. He studied both mathematics and computer science at university and finally finished his studies at Institut National des Telecoms engineering school in Paris. In 1998 he discovered Java 1.1 and was quickly attracted. He realized that he would not have to learn another (OO imperative) language for a long time. He spent one year at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the area of Washington D.C where he developed an XML-relational server based on EJB and JBoss, during that time he dived into the Beast and did a couple of JBoss AS bug fixes. He joined the JBoss community in 2001 and worked on Forums on JBoss project and Nukes on JBoss project, pretty soon after he was hired. In 2003, he founded the JBoss Portal project and since then has been leading its development. Julien is a member of JSR-286: Portlet Specification 2.0, JSR-283: Content Repository for Java Technology API 2.0 and JSR-301: Portlet Bridge Specification for JavaServer Faces. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Justin Forder Country: UK Bio: Justin is an OO analysis/design mentor and software architect at Logica, in London. In the summer of 2000, Justin had a go at cleaning up the JAWS database access code. It ended up in a clean rewrite and re-architecturing of the JBoss database access layers. |
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[Permlink] Kabir Khan Country: Bio: Born in 1971, as part of his MSc in Computing Science, Kabir wrote his thesis using Java when it just came out. He spent a few years in jobs using other languages before becoming employed as the chief developer for a dotcom in 1999. He settled on open source Java technologies as the implementation platform, and when looking for a full-blown application server in 2001 came across JBoss. The summer 2004 he went into hiding in the deepest woods of Norway, working on JBoss projects until they employed him, and is currently leading the JBoss AOP project. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Kurt Stam Country: USA Bio: Born in the Netherlands, Kurt obtained a PhD in computational mechanics in Delft. One of the most valuable lessons he learned there was not to trust books or compilers, or even complete motherboards. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Larry Sanderson Country: USA Bio: Trained as a physicist at Cornell University, Larry decided it was financially advantagous to persue his computer science minor instead of physics. So, after graduation in 1997, he went to work for a US defense contracting firm in Washington DC doing Java development. This is something he does not recommend to any body: "Save yourself, and do NOT work for the US government." Unfortunately, it took him about a year to figure this out, at which time he took his Java experience to Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Larry was a Java-Trainer teaching all those dot-com companies how to use various Java API's from AWT/Swing to J2EE. He became Sun's Lead Instructor for EJB's and helped author Sun's EJB course that is still offered today. Being an educator, Larry enjoyed learning a very wide range of API's, but he still had that development itch - he needed to code. So in late 2000 he decided to jump on that dot-com bandwagon and took a position as a J2EE architect for a San Francisco on-line trading firm. Surprisingly the company has managed to survive the dot-com fallout, and Larry still has a job - for now. |
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[Permlink] Laurent Etiemble Country: France Bio: Born in 1975 in France, I have discovered computers on my father's Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Since then, I have never been far away from a keyboard. Graduated of ENSAM, a french engineer school, I have made my specialisation in fluids physics simulation (Fortran and C on Unix). I am now working for small company on mobile applications. During my spare time I am working on JBoss-IDE, to provide a high quality IDE for JBoss development. |
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[Permlink] Lennart Petersson Country: Sweden Bio: I'm from Sweden - but not an alien as some others - with a great passion for Islandic horses, good Java code and scotch whisky. Lives in an old but renovated house in the countryside with Maria and our two lovely daughters - Johanna and Ellen, two cats and four horses. Since 1992 working for Benefit in Sweden (www.benefit.se/english) making systems for retailers both in Sweden and international. Has made my way from Cobol/CICS on mainframes (1987-88), Progress on different Unix machines (1989-91), SQLWindows (1992-1997) and then Java Java Java !!! Started to follow EJB when we were looking for a new architecture for our POS and backoffice system in 1998-1999. I played with ejbhome, tengha and others and decided to suggest Ejipt as our prime EJB server. That was the case until 2000 when I started to follow the mailing lists of JBoss and winter 2000/2001 we switched to use JBoss as our prime EJB server. A descision that so far looks like a success! Hope to be contributing more and more, but time is not and endless resource i'm afraid... |
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[Permlink] Luke Taylor Country: Bio: Luke is an independent consultant based in Glasgow, Scotland, operating under the guise of Monkey Machine Ltd. He obtained a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Glasgow University and then worked in the software industry in London and Zurich for several years. Luke first got involved with JBoss in 2001, contributing some security code and attending the first London training week. He went on to develop the "J2EE on JBoss" training course and wrote the original "JBoss Getting Started Guide". |
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[Permlink] Manik Surtani Country: England Bio: A Sri Lankan by birth, Manik Surtani now lives in London, England. After founding a technology startup in the late 1990's and then laying low as a J2EE consultant during the tech industry doldrums early 2000's, Manik joined JBoss as a core developer in the summer of 2005. Manik's keen interest in open source software, methodologies and ideals and an interest in distributed computing made JBoss an ideal home for him. When not hacking away on JBossCache and the JBoss clustering codebase, he is usually climbing an obscure lump of rock or attempting to summit some mountain. |
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[Permlink] Marc Fleury, Ph.D. Country: USA Bio: Born in Paris in 1968, Marc started in Sales at Sun Microsystems France and then transitioned to engineering. After working in SAP development while at SUN he got bored and started JBoss. Marc currently serves as the President of the JBoss, Inc., based out of Atlanta, GA. A graduate of X, and an ex-Lieutenant in the paratroopers, he has a master in Theoretical Physics from the ENS ULM and a Ph.D in Physics for experimental work he did as a visiting scientist from X at MIT's RLE. Marc enjoys the family/extended family feel to the Open Source business model. He is dedicated to making JBoss, Inc. the dominant web-app server company. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Mark Newton Country: Switzerland Bio: I was born in Manchester, England in 1974 and first became interested in computers when my father brought home a workstation from Rank Xerox in 1982. A love for technology combined with an interest in music led me to take a degree in Electronics with Music at Glasgow University where I graduated in 1997. I was introduced to J2EE and JBoss 3.0 whilst enhancing trading systems for an investment bank in London, an experience that ultimately led me to join JBoss Inc in 2005. Until March 2007 I acted as the Senior Consultant for JBoss in EMEA where I provided both consulting and training services to a large cross-section of companies. As lead of JBoss.org I am responsible for the development of our website and making sure that the community can collaborate to develop and use the many projects effectively. My main areas of interest are meta-cognition and helping people to understand the use of open source middleware to increase productivity. |
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[Permlink] Mark Proctor Country: Bio: Mark has lived in West London, most recently in Chiswick, for the last 12 years. He is currently the Project Lead for Drools, founded by Codehaus' Bob McWhirter, the JBoss Rules products. Mark spent six years studying at Brunel University undertaking a 4 year sandwich degree in Engineering, Science and Technology followed by a two year part time Masters degree in Business and Information Systems. Mark's Msc thesis, a joint publication with his tutor and mentor Mark Harman in the journal GECCO 2002: 1351-1358, was a study in the use of Genetic Algorithms for "A New Representation And Crossover Operator For Search-based Optimization Of Software Modularization". It was whilst writing his thesis that Mark found he had a passion for Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. Mark's professional career started with Perl and Oracle application development before moving to his dominant field of Java and Rule Engines; during this time he developed, among other small projects, a Semantic aware Content Management Systems for Cisco Systems and later a Global Absence Tracking system in PeopleSoft HR with Java integration, he has also consulted for Sun Professional Services. Mark became involved in Drools seeing it as a natural fit for the complex absence tracking problem domain. His long term goal is to come full circle and integrate GAs with Drools to reposition it as an Expert Systems platform; which will be used to develop the first sentient computer. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Marshall Culpepper Country: Texas Bio: Marshall Culpepper is a native Texan programmer. His humble career in UI programming began at Nortel Networks in 1998 where he designed his first Applet for call center administration. Ever since then, Marshall has worked with various UI toolkits including MFC, GTK, Qt, AWT, Swing, and SWT, as well as doing his fair share of J2EE programming. Marshall enjoys juggling, poker, spicy food, and long walks on the beach. Projects: |
[Permlink] Max Andersen Country: Switzerland Bio: Born in 1974, lived in Denmark the first 30 years where he in the end years bumped into Hibernate 0.9 since he got tired of implementing yet another persistence framework. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Michael "Uncle Travelling Mike" Barker Country: UK Bio: Born in New Zealand in 1977. I attended the University of Auckland and gained a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, graduating in 1999. I have lived in the United Kingdom since the end of 1999 working as a Software Consultant mostly in Telecoms and Government. Having experienced the best and worst London has to offer, I now live in Manchester with my girlfriend and spend my spare time travelling, playing tennis (badly), snowboarding (painfully) and painting the house. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Nathan Phelps Country: USA Bio: Nathan graduated from TCU in May of 1998, and started working for SolArc, Inc. where he first served as Webmaster. Later he moved to the engineering group where he designed and built SolArc's first e-business platform. Since that time, he has focused his work on integration technologies (messaging, connectors, webservices), as wells as helping the company map out its future technical direction. He recently finished his term as the President of the Tulsa Java Users Group where he took special pride in "professionalizing" its marketing message. In his spare time, Nathan enjoys reading and hanging out with his wife Leanne. |
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[Permlink] Ole Husgaard Country: Denmark Bio: In "real life" in Denmark, Ole Husgaard works as an independent consultant on data communications and server systems. |
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[Permlink] Oleg Nitz Country: Ukraine Bio: Hello, dear guests and roots, my name is Oleg Nitz. |
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[Permlink] Pawel Wrzeszcz Country: Poland Bio: I grew up in the Copernicus' home town - Torun, Poland, then moved to study computer science at the University of Warsaw. There I learned that Pine is neither a tree nor Elm, Ant is about building software not hills and finally that Java is not only an island. After I had my knowledge thus broadened, I started working with J(2)EE. I've been contributing to the JBossLabs project since November 2005 and I'm still having a great time here.
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[Permlink] Peter Antman Country: Sweden Bio: A former journalist, he discovered Linux half a decade ago and has been preaching and producing free software ever since. While still a journalist he introduced the concept of Linux and The Free Software Movement to a wider audience. Now a day's he is the technical leader of a small development team which specializes in making enterprise information solutions for the Swedish media business, based on open source product. Scratching his own itch he helped implementing Message Driven Bean in jboss. |
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[Permlink] Peter Fagerlund Country: Bio: Born above the Artic Circle in Scandinavia 1961. |
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[Permlink] Peter Johnson Country: United States (Southern California) Bio: Peter started his computer career in August of 1980 working for Burroughs, programming mainframes in COBOL and Algol. In the early 90's, he worked on a metadata project, a portion of which grew into the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI). He started working in Java in 1998, and was lead designer on projects such as a JDBC driver for the DMSII database that runs on Unisys mainframes. For the past several years he has been chief architect on a team that does performance analysis of Java applications on large-scale Intel-based machines (8 to 32 CPUs). His team worked with JBoss Inc. to improve the performance of the SpecJAppServer benchmark, which resulted in significant performance improvements in the 3.2.6 and 4.0.2 versions of the JBoss Application Server. Peter gave a talk on that work at the first JBoss World conference in Atlanta. In addition, he was the lead architect of the Unisys Administration Console for the JBoss Application Server. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Przemyslaw Dej Country: Poland Bio: I was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1983, it is a place where I grew up and where I live currently. At the present time I am studying Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology and intending to graduate from it with engineering and Master degree in 2007. Except contributing to JBoss Labs project, I enjoy mountain bike riding in my free time. I am keen on listening to music especially watching live performances. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Remy Maucherat Country: France Bio: Remy discovered Java after a short trip in MFC hell, and has been addicted ever since. Among many contributions to a variety of open-source projects, he's a major contributor to Apache Tomcat 4.x and leading the Tomcat 5.0 development effort. He's a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is part of the Jakarta PMC overseeing the Jakarta project. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Robert Castenada Country: Australia Bio: Rob is an instructor/trainer for CustomWare, a leading vendor-independant J2EE training company. Rob is helping to bridge commercial technologies into the JBoss platform, including the integration of Thought Inc's CocoBase Enterprise O/R Mapping Tool. This allows EJB developers to build enterprise beans supporting Container Managed Persistence (CMP) and Bean Managed Persistence (BMP) without writing any code. A major benefit of the work is that EJBs with CMP and BMP can be developed with application serverand CocoBase, and be deployed in JBoss with no code changes or recompilations. |
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[Permlink] Roy Russo Country: USA Bio: Roy Russo has been developing enterprise software in a variety of industries using Java and PHP. He originally started out in the portal market developing plugins. He contributed for the JBoss Portal project - having started it with Julien Viet and Thomas Heute. He is responsible for the JCR-based CMS, documentation, and overall usability. Roy is also the founder/maintainer of http://www.portletswap.com - JBoss Portlet Exchange. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Ryszard Kozmik Country: Poland, Warsaw Bio: I was born in 1983 in Warsaw, Poland where I still live. I am a Computer Sciences student at Warsaw University of Technology heading inevitably to graduate with engineering and Master degree in 2007. Apart from being devoted JBoss Labs contributor I am JBoss Forums project lead. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Sacha Labourey Country: Switzerland Bio: Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland 1975, Sacha Labourey is the CTO of the JBoss division. Before that, Sacha founded JBoss European headquarters and was managing the rapid expansion of the JBoss, Inc.'s European business. Sacha was also responsible for the first implementation of load-balancing/fail over for JBoss. Mr. Labourey is a graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology graduate computer science program. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Scott Stark, Ph.D. Country: USA Bio: Scott started out thinking he wanted to be a chemical engineer and spent nearly 10 years acquiring upto a Ph.D. before deciding that programming was what he really wanted to do. Distributed objects and msging have been near and dear to him ever since. Java was love at first site and has been his only focus for the past 4 years. Scott serves as the VP of Architecture of the JBoss division. Before that he was the CTO of the JBoss, Inc.. Scott is based out of Washington state. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Scott Marlow Country: Bio: Scott is a member of the Novell Identity Products development team and contributes to JBoss Clustering, JBoss Cache and JGroups. Scott has also developed distributed application technology, 4GL development tools, database server, terminal emulation, stock market portfolio management solutions and other custom applications. When not cranking out code, Scott enjoys playing and coaching soccer. |
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[Permlink] Sebastien Alborini Country: France Bio: Sebastien Alborini currently studies computer science at the ENST in Paris. He discovered EJBs in July 2000 during an internship at Telkel (the best school of this part of the solar system), and he's been learning ever since. To understand how it works, pick a bug and track it to the darkest lines of code! (warning: this only works with open-source) |
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[Permlink] Shane Bryzak Country: Australia Bio: Shane Bryzak is a core JBoss Seam developer located in Brisbane, Australia. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Shigeru Chiba Country: Japan Bio: Chiba is the creator and project lead of Javassist. He was born in Tokyo. After spending a few years at Xerox PARC in California, he finished his PhD and he is now an associate professor of computer science at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He likes programming and has written a variety of software including OpenC++. Since he must keep his university position, he has been the author of a number of research papers, some of which were presented at major academic conferences on object-oriented technology. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Simone Bordet Country: Italy Bio: Born in 1970, living in Torino, Italy. Personal bests: |
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[Permlink] Stale W Pedersen Country: Norway, Oslo Bio: I was born in 1977 and grew up just outside of Arendal, Norway. Graduated from Oslo University with cand. scient. in computer science focusing on simulation and visualisation. I used JBoss slightly the summer of 2000 while working for a dotcom consultant company. Went back to school to finish the degree until i wasasked to join Conduct AS, a certified JBoss partner consultant company. Since then I've been using JBoss and I've been trying to understand the innerworkings of JBoss ever since. I Currently live in Oslo with my girl, son and a dog. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Stan Silvert Country: USA Bio: Stan is a Core Developer for JBoss, a division of RedHat. He resides in Atlanta, GA. Since earning a degree in computer science from Georgia Tech in 1991, he has held many senior development positions, mostly as a Java Architect. Stan has been a committer to the JBoss Application Server and the Apache MyFaces JSF implementation. He currently works on the Sun JSF implementation which is used in both Glassfish and JBoss AS 5. Stan also represents JBoss on the JSF expert group (JSR-252). Projects: |
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[Permlink] Sylvain Laurent Country: France Bio: Born in 1975 in France, I have discovered computers on my father's Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Since then, I have never been far away from a keyboard. Graduated of ENSAM, a french engineer school, I have made my specialisation in fluids physics simulation (Fortran and C on Unix). I am now working for small company on mobile applications. During my spare time I am working on JBoss-IDE, to provide a high quality IDE for JBoss development. |
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[Permlink] Thierry Janaudy Country: UK Bio: Thierry is an independent consultant working in London, UK. He gives consulting and training for In JBoss Thierry was one of the leads behind zola, the application model effort. With a focus on WAP webstore is today a complete demo of a complex e-commerce site working on the suite of JBoss products. |
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[Permlink] Thomas Diesler Country: Germany Bio: Born in Germany 1968, Thomas fell in love with Java from the first day he saw her. Working as a consultant he has been involved in the design and development of complex enterprise applications, mainly for Siemens Germany. His primary focus is bringing enterprise services such as rule engine support and web services to JBoss. Thomas holds a BSc in Computing and Microelectronics from Oxford Brookes University. In his spare time he wrestles with his 1 year old son or climbs rocks wherever he can find them. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Thomas Heute Country: Switzerland Bio: With a master's degree in computer science in hands and after three years spent at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) doing research on information repositories then PDA security for the US National Security Agency (NSA), Thomas Heute became a contributor of the JBoss Portal project. He officially joined JBoss in 2004 as JBoss Portal developer then as project leader of JBoss Seam. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Thomas Peuss Country: Germany Bio: Thomas is working for trimondo as a system architect. His first contact with Java was at university when his professor asked him to try out a new toy from Sun. The toy is now a big part of his life (his wife would say: the bigger part). He got in contact with JBoss while looking for a new middleware for trimondo's B2B-marketplace. After attending a BEA and a JBoss training he got infected with the JBoss virus and wrote the Tomcat clustering code based on Sacha's cluster services. |
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[Permlink] Tim Fox Country: UK Bio: Born in 1971 in the South of England, Tim studied Physics in Padova, Italy and Imperial College, London where he graduated with First Class Honours in 1993. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Tobias Frech Country: Germany Bio: Born 1974 near Stuttgart in Germany. The first time: 1982 (touched a computer keyboard of course). From then on always interested in electronics, computers (ZX81, C64, Amiga, PC), why things are the way they are and how we can change them. Started studying Computer Science at the WSI in Tuebingen in 1995. Got involved in the JBoss Project during an internship in the bay area and decided to mainly contribute to the documentation. Now studying again to receive his masters degree soon. Thinks that the world needs more people that care, that have visions and especially people that like utopias. Would like to see a lot of things change on this world. |
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[Permlink] Tony Allsopp Country: New Zealand Bio: Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1976, Toby gradutated with a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Auckland in 1999. Since then he has been working as a researcher for Peace Software, specialising in the application of Java technologies such as J2EE. In his spare time he works on free software like JBoss and plays bass guitar in a rock band called Silhouette. |
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[Permlink] Tom Elrod Country: USA Bio: Tom is an Atlanta native who was infected with startup fever after years in corporate software development. His background is mostly in distributed systems, starting from RPC (when this meant using C), CORBA, and now Java and XML based. Currently he is heavily involved in the future development of JMX, JBoss Remoting, and AOP Remoting. Projects: |
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[Permlink] Tomasz Szymanski Country: Poland, Warsaw Bio: Tomek is the primary developer of JBoss Wiki and continues to contribute to the core JBoss Labs initiative.
In 2007 he got MSc and engineering degree from Warsaw University of Technology.
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[Permlink] Trevor Squires Country: UK Bio: A 33 year old Canadian who has lived in London for the past 13 years, Trevor spends his days helping to grow a trading platform for a European investment bank. The bulk of the rest of his time is spent on his amazing family which means there's rarely anything left for stuff like writing a decent bio. One day he hopes to save enough money for the therapy he so desperately needs to stop referring to himself in the third person. Trevor works on JBossMX. |
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[Permlink] Vladimir Blagojevic Country: Canada Bio: Born in Sarajevo in 1975, I finished B.Sc and Masters at York University in Toronto. Started working on JBoss since EJBoss days but did not take Marc's advice to stay and work fulltime and chose instead to do Masters in distributed computing. I worked on Jgroups with Bela Ban extensively during that period. After graduate school I worked for Research In Motion for two years on their flagship product MDS prior to joining JBoss and continuing my work on Jgroups. Projects: |
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