Koen Aers
Joe Basirico
Wayne Beaton
Jeff Brown
Doug Clarke
Eric Clayberg
Naci Dai
Dwight Deugo
Yakov Fain
Adam Flater
Michael Galpin
Richard Gronback
James Hanlon
Neil Hauge
Pat Huff
Pieter Humphrey
Anthony Hunter
Kenn Hussey
Christopher Judd
Max Katz
Kirk Knoernschild
Peter Krogh
Ravi Kumar
Scott Leberknight
Annas “Andy” Maleh
Kito Mann
Tim McConnell
Jean Neveux
Nate Oster
Patrick Paulin
Phil Quitslund
Angel Roman
Scott Rosenbaum
Michael Rozlog
Dan Rubel
Mark Russell
Brian Sam-Bodden
Scott Schneider
Kevin Schroeder
Raghu Srinivasan
Greg Stachnick
Burr Sutter
Kevin Taylor
Steve Taylor
Bruce Trask
Joe Toomey
Scott Walz
Jason Weathersby
Chris Williams
Kamal Youbi
Alexander v. Zitzewitz
Koen Aers
Koen Aers is a senior software developer at Red Hat/JBoss, and is currently driving the Eclipse support for the JBoss jBPM project. He has been part of the jBPM team since April 2004 and became a JBoss employee when the jBPM project joined JBoss.
Mr. Aers graduated as a civil engineer from the Belgian Royal Military Academy and obtained an M.S. in information technology at the Brussels Free University. Before joining Red Hat/JBoss, he worked in the IT department of the Belgian Army and as a software consultant, first for Unisys and later as an independent.
Joe Basirico
Joe Basirico has spent the majority of his professional career studying security and developing tools that assist in the discovery of security vulnerabilities and other application problems. His primary responsibility at Security Innovation is to deliver security courses to software teams in need of application security expertise. Mr. Basirico has trained developers and testers from numerous world-class organizations, including Microsoft, HP, EMC, Symantec, Liberty Mutual, Sony, State Farm, Credit Suisse, Amazon.com, Adobe and ING.
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. Mr. Beaton has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing and agile development methodologies.
Jeff Brown
Jeff Brown is the director of North American operations for G2One and a member of the core Groovy and Grails development teams. For over 10 years, he has been involved in designing and building object-oriented systems.
Mr. Brown teaches a number of Java and object-oriented training courses, in addition to doing consulting and mentoring work for the aerospace, financial and medical industries. His fields of expertise include Java, agile Web development with Groovy and Grails, distributed computing, object database systems, object-oriented analysis and design, and agile development.
Doug Clarke
Doug Clarke is a principal product manager for Oracle Application Server’s TopLink product and co-lead of the Eclipse Java Persistence Platform (EclipseLink) project.
Mr. Clarke has extensive enterprise development, consulting and educational field experience in the areas of object-relational persistence, data access and systems integration. He brings together concrete experiences from projects of various sizes and industries with a practical approach to design, testing and performance tuning.
Eric Clayberg
Eric Clayberg is a software technologist, product developer, entrepreneur and manager with Instantiations. He has more than 18 years of commercial software development experience, including 11 years of experience with Java and eight years with Eclipse. Mr. Clayberg is the primary author and architect of more than a dozen commercial Java and Smalltalk add-on products, including WindowBuilder Pro, CodePro and the award-winning VA Assist Enterprise product lines.
Mr. Clayberg holds a B.S. degree from M.I.T and an M.B.A. from Harvard, and has co-founded two successful software companies. He is co-author of the book “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plugins,” part of the Addison-Wesley Eclipse series.
Naci Dai
Naci Dai is the chief scientist and founder of eteration, a service company that focuses on Java EE, SOA and object-oriented modeling and analysis. He has been an active contributor to open source, created the ObjectWeb Lomboz project, and is a member of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project PMC as the project lead for the JST project.
Dr. Dai is a member of the faculty at Sabanci University, where he teaches object technologies and distributed computing. He received his Ph.D. from Carleton University in Ottawa. Prior to his current jobs, he was with BEA Systems and The Object People as a member of their professional services organizations.
Dwight Deugo
Dwight Deugo is the CEO and director of services for Espirity, and is also an associate professor in the school of computer science at Carleton University, where he heads the laboratory on pervasive computing. Before joining Carleton, he was the director of Java services at The Object People.
Mr. Deugo started the Eclipse Community Education project, where he is the lead contributor and Committer. Its goal is to promote the creation, improvement and distribution of commercial and academic-quality Eclipse courseware, education and training technologies, and resource material. He has contributed Eclipse plugin and Java-related courses to the project, and served as program chair for EclipseCon. Mr. Deugo writes regularly for BZ Media’s EclipseSource newsletter.
Yakov Fain
Yakov Fain is a managing principal of Farata Systems, where he is responsible for enterprise architecture and emerging technologies. The author of several books and dozens of technical articles, Mr. Fain has been awarded the title Java Champion by Sun.
Mr. Fain leads the Princeton Java Users Group, and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied mathematics.
Adam Flater
Adam Flater is a software architect at Universal Mind. His background is in working with Java and Microsoft technologies, building both Web and desktop applications. He has been working in Flex user interface and server development since the beta release of Flex 2.0 in October 2005.
Mr. Flater was the lead developer on the ActionScript SDK for eBay’s Web Services used in the eBay Desktop application. He’s also the founder of the Merapi Project, an open-source project that bridges Java with Flex on AIR at the desktop.
Michael Galpin
Michael Galpin is an architect at eBay, specializing in presentation technologies. While at eBay he has worked on numerous projects including eBay Neighborhoods, the next generation of MyEbay (currently in public beta), and with the eBay kernel term creating the presentation infrastructure that powers the eBay site. Mr. Galpin has been working in Web development for more than 10 years, and prior to eBay he worked at some startups in Silicon Valley. He’s a frequent writer for IBM’s developerWorks site, and has also written for TheServerSide.com and the Java Developer’s Journal.
Richard Gronback
Richard Gronback works for Borland and currently leads the Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework project; he has also provided training on object-oriented design, design patterns, static code analysis and model validation.
James Hanlon
James Hanlon has worked for such employers as Bell Laboratories and Northern Telecom, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois.
Mr. Hanlon has designed and built test automation frameworks for systems large and small, centralized and distributed, stationary and mobile, at both the API and GUI levels. He holds a patent (7339891) in the area of mobile applications testing, and holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.C.S.
Neil Hauge
Neil Hauge is a principal software developer at Oracle and project lead for the Eclipse Dali Java Persistence API (JPA) Tools project. He is a member of the Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project Management Committee (PMC), the Eclipse Planning Council and the Eclipse Architecture Council.
Mr. Hauge leads the tooling development for Oracle TopLink and has been developing Java-based object-relational mapping tools for over six years.
Pat Huff
Pat Huff is a product manager for IBM Rational Software. His team manages the relationship between Eclipse and the IBM product development community.
Mr. Huff has a long history of producing object-oriented software development tools and Frameworks, and of introducing OO and agile programming concepts into large company infrastructures. His current interests lie in realizing Eclipse’s potential in commercially successful solutions.
Pieter Humphrey
Pieter Humphrey has been Oracle (BEA) for 7 years, working in technical sales, product marketing and developer marketing to help customers understand and apply our technology. I was the full time employee responsbile for the dev2dev community globally. In my current role, I'm doing outbound product marketing for application development tools like JDeveloper, ADF, the Oracle Enterprise Eclipse Pack, and focused the Oracle / BEA developer community.
Anthony Hunter
Anthony Hunter is a software development manager at IBM Rational Software in Canada. He’s a committer for the Eclipse GMF and GEF projects as well as committer for the Tabbed Properties View in the Eclipse platform.
Mr. Hunter contributes to the Rational modeling product lines, including IBM Rational Software Architect. He has historically contributed to WebSphere Studio Application Developer and IBM Rational XDE, and has been actively working with the Eclipse platform since its inception.
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.
Mr. Hussey 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.
Christopher Judd
Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, and is an international speaker, open-source evangelist, Central Ohio Java Users Group coordinator and co-author of “Enterprise Java Development on a Budget” and “Pro Eclipse JST: Plugins for JST Development.”
Mr. Judd spent 10 years developing software in the insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, service and transportation industries. His current focus is consulting, mentoring and training with Java, Java EE, Java ME, Web services and related technologies.
Max Katz
Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel. He has been helping customers jump-start their RIA development as well as providing mentoring, consulting, and training. Max is a recognized subject matter expert in the JSF developer community. He has provided JSF/RichFaces training for the past three years, presented at many conferences, and written several published articles on JSF-related topics. Max also leads Exadel's RIA strategy and writes about RIA technologies in his blog, http://mkblog.exadel.com. He is an author of "Practical RichFaces" book (Apress). Max holds a BS in computer science from the University of California, Davis.
Kirk Knoernschild
Kirk Knoernschild is an industry analyst at Burton Group. For 15 years, he has worked in the trenches on real software projects. He takes a keen interest in design, architecture, application development platforms, agile development and the IT industry in general, especially as it relates to software development.
In 2002, Mr. Knoernschild wrote the book “Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process.” He has also written numerous whitepapers and articles, including The Agile Developer column for The Agile Journal. He’s the founder of Extensible Java, a growing resource of component design-pattern heuristics for Java that can easily be applied to most other platforms, including .NET. Mr. Knoernschild has trained thousands of software professionals, teaching courses on UML, Java J2EE technology, object-oriented development, component-based development, software architecture and software process. He enjoys hacking in a variety of languages, including Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP.
Peter Krogh
Peter Krogh is a development manager for Oracle Application Server’s TopLink product and co-lead of the Eclipse Java Persistence Platform (EclipseLink) Project. He has a long history with TopLink in both development management and core development. Mr. Krogh is also a committer on GlassFish’s TopLink Essentials Project.
Ravi Kumar
Ravi Kumar is principal architect in the Java tools group at CodeGear and is responsible for the vision and architecture of the Eclipse-based JBuilder product line. He is the driving force behind many key innovations at CodeGear. Recently, he worked on the JBuilder ProjectAssist team system, which expands the sphere of developer productivity and collaboration from the IDE to the developer eco-system at large. Of late, Mr. Kumar is focusing on a compelling new application-driven vision of software architecture and development called Application Factories, which endeavors to transform today’s generic tools to be application-aware.
In addition to his role as a software architect, Mr. Kumar specializes in SOA, Web services and database tooling.
Scott Leberknight
Scott Leberknight 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 13 years professionally, and has developed Web applications using Java, Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails and a smidgeon of 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, Mr. Leberknight 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.”
Mr. Leberknight holds a B.S. in engineering science and mechanics from Virginia Tech, and an M. Eng. in systems engineering from the University of Maryland. He speaks at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums and various other conferences.
Annas “Andy” Maleh
Annas “Andy” Maleh is a consultant at Obtiva, a firm that specializes in Eclipse RCP development and helping teams transition to agile methodologies. He works in a team that follows Extreme Programming practices such as pair programming, test-driven development and refactoring, and participates in work related to user-interface design enhancement.
Mr. Maleh has also been the lead developer of several Java/Swing applications, and has been involved in requirements gathering, analysis and design and maintenance. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer who holds a B.S. in computer science from McGill University.
Kito Mann
Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSFCentral and the author of “JavaServer Faces in Action.” He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Mr. Mann is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc., specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring and JSF product strategy. He holds a B.A. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.
Tim McConnell
Tim McConnell is an IBM Software Engineer on the Apache Geronimo project. He has 26 years’ experience with IBM in the areas of IT architecture and design, enterprise and system application design and development, and IBM product design and development through the full development lifecycle.
Jean Neveux
Jean Neveux is executive vice president of Netfective Technology, in charge of the company’s Blu Age application generator. A graduate of Tallahassee Community College, Mr. Neveux has more worked for more than a decade in object-oriented development.
Nate Oster
Nate Oster is player-coach with Number Six Software, where he helps clients adopt iterative development methods. As a technical leader, Mr. Oster builds high-performance test teams that emphasize continuously measuring progress with tested functionality, high levels of maintainable test automation and testing as a serious technical discipline.
Mr. Oster has more than seven years of experience with the Unified Process and is a strong advocate for agile practices and open source. As an open-source committer for the Eclipse Process Framework, he serves as the test package owner for the Open Unified Process (OpenUP). While Mr. Oster maintains a speaking schedule at software development conferences, most of his time is spent as a hands-on team leader and coach for test teams.
Patrick Paulin
Patrick Paulin is the founder and principal of Market Contours, a software company producing tools for traders in financial markets. He holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago. He is a software developer and entrepreneur with more than 15 years of programming experience, including eight years of experience with Java and four years with the Rich Client Platform. Mr. Paulin spends much of his time offering the RCP Quickstart training course, which helps get new RCP project teams quickly up to speed.
Phil Quitslund
Phil Quitslund brings eight years’ experience in object-oriented programming to his role as senior architect and team leader of the WindowTester Pro product team at Instantiations. He has extensive experience in developing Rich Client Platform developer tool products and a large Web-service application development IDE, and has worked as a mentor on numerous commercial RCP projects, providing implementation, design and best practice mentoring.
An active member of the Eclipse Developer Community for over five years, Mr. Quitslund is also an industry and university speaker, with recent presentations at EclipseCon and EclipseWorld events. He earned a Masters in computer science from Portland State University and a B.A. in philosophy from Reed College.
Angel Roman
Angel Roman is the Chief Software Architect of MDE Systems and an expert on Java development using the Eclipse development environment and its application frameworks. He has presented at various industry conferences on topics such as software defined radios and model-driven engineering. Mr. Roman has been involved with projects concerning Eclipse development, embedded Linux Systems and OSGi.
Scott Rosenbaum
Scott Rosenbaum is a managing partner for Innovent Solutions, a consulting firm focused on the design, development and distribution of business intelligence solutions. He has been an active user of Eclipse technology since 2002, and joined the BIRT project management committee in November 2004.
Mr. Rosenbaum holds a B.S. from General Motors Institute. He has spent the past 20 years working on business intelligence solutions for the insurance, banking, healthcare, retail sales and automotive industries.
Michael Rozlog
Mike Rozlog is CodeGear’s JBuilder Evangelist for the Americas. Previously, he served as chief technical architect for Borland.
Mr. Rozlog is co-author of “Mastering JBuilder.”
Dan Rubel
Dan Rubel is an entrepreneur and an expert in the design and application of object-oriented technologies with more than 15 years of commercial software development experience, including 10 years of experience with Java and six years with Eclipse. He’s the primary architect and product manager at Instantiations for RCP Developer, WindowTester and RCP Packager, and has played key design and leadership roles in other commercial products such as WindowBuilder Pro, VA Assist and CodePro Studio.
Mr. Rubel specializes in Eclipse product development, including code analysis and RCP construction tools, and is co-author of “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plugins.”
Mark Russell
Mark Russell is an expert Eclipse-based build master and developer at Instantiations, Inc. and is co-architect of the Instantiations continuous build and deployment system. He has 15 years of experience in developing large and small build systems for large corporate systems and small open-source projects and is a key developer on Instantiations’ CodePro and RCP Developer products.
Before joining Instantiations, Mr. Russell was the lead integrator at PNC Financial Services Group and a Principle Consultant at Crosslogic. Mark holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Brian Sam-Bodden
Brian Sam-Bodden is the president and chief software architect for Integrallis, where he builds applications with Java and Ruby. An author and recognized international speaker, he has spent over 12 years working with object technologies, with an emphasis on the Java platform and in recent times falling in love with Ruby. Mr. Sam-Bodden holds dual bachelor’s degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics.
As an independent consultant, Mr. Sam-Bodden has promoted the use of open source in the industry by educating his clients on the cost benefits and productivity gains they can achieve. He’s a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad. He is the author of “Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry” and has also co-authored the Apress Java title “Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies.”
Scott Schneider
Scott Schneider is an advisory software engineer for IBM Rational Software, and is a lead Committer for the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform. He was instrumental in designing and implementing the TPTP automatable services framework in 2005. He was co-architect of the Rational Rose/XDE Data Modeler product, designer of the Rational Software Architect patterns framework and contributed to the Rational Performance Tester product (and its integration with TPTP). He is currently the technical lead on pattern tooling in the IBM Rational Software Architect product.
Mr. Schneider has more than 20 years of software programming experience, and received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995. He has a strong interest in pattern specification languages and their application to tooling.
Kevin Schroeder
Kevin Schroeder is a technical consultant for Zend Technologies’ Professional Services in North America. He has a wide range of experience from large-scale system administration to software development in multiple languages. Based in Dallas, he travels throughout the country providing services centered on PHP.
Raghu Srinivasan
Raghu Srinivasan is a senior development manager at Oracle where he is responsible for Eclipse projects. He leads the Eclipse JavaServer Faces Tools project and is also a member of the Web Tools Platform management committee. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Srinivasan was a development manager at PeopleSoft, where he led a team to build the next-generation IDE based on Eclipse.
Greg Stachnick
Greg Stachnick joined Oracle/BEA in 2005 and is a product manager for BEA Workshop and the Oracle Enterprise Eclipse Pack. In his current role, Greg focuses on blended application development using commercial and open source Java frameworks and runtimes. Greg has been working in the Java development tools space since 2000.
Burr Sutter
Burr Sutter is a current Sun Java Champion, President of the Atlanta Java Users Group and President of the Atlanta Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. He has over 15 years of software design and development experience along with numerous published articles, book chapters and developer conference speaking engagements. He is presently employed at JBoss, a division of Red Hat.
Kevin Taylor
Kevin Taylor is a principal consultant at Obtiva, a firm that specializes in Eclipse RCP development and helping teams transition to agile methodologies. He is currently a technical lead on an 18-month Eclipse RCP project to build a custom CRM application for an international corporation. During this project, he has used different table components extensively and has created custom UI components based on tables, including Microsoft Outlook–style day, week and month calendars.
Mr. Taylor has written courses on test-driven development and agile project management, is the editor of a Java technology site, and is the treasurer of the Chicago Java Users Group-West.
Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor, founder and chief technology officer of OpenMake Software, is an experienced senior developer with 19 years of experience in both distributed and mainframe application development. Prior to founding Catalyst Systems in 1995 (which recently changed its name to OpenMake Software), Mr. Taylor served as a technical consultant assisting companies with defining a solid build and release process. He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Bruce Trask
Bruce Trask, CEO of MDE Systems, has been developing complex distributed real-time embedded systems for over 20 years. He has specialized in model-driven engineering in the last seven years, most recently concentrating on developing Java modeling tools using Eclipse Frameworks.
Mr. Trask has also been teaching C++, Java, Object Orientation, Design Patterns, UML, CORBA and Framework courses for over 10 years, and has lead multiple study groups in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut area on various topics ranging from design patterns to middleware.
Joe Toomey
Joe Toomey is a senior software engineer at the IBM Rational lab in Lexington, Mass. He has been a Committer on the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform since its inception in 2002, leading the Test Model subgroup and acting as Committer for the Test Model team and the Execution Environment Control group. Mr. Toomey also participates in several IBM Architecture groups. Prior to his work on TPTP, he was a developer on several Rational products, including Rational Robot, Rational QualityArchitect and Rational XDE Component Test. He received a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Scott Walz
Scott Walz is senior director of product management for Embarcadero Technologies. With more than 15 years of experience in the area of database development, he oversees the direction of the company’s product family while focusing on database development and administration products. Prior to joining Embarcadero four years ago, Mr. Walz served as a development lead for Louisville Gas & Electric. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Western Kentucky University.
Jason Weathersby
Jason Weathersby is the BIRT evangelist at Actuate and a member of the BIRT project management committee. He is responsible for educating the open-source community about BIRT and encouraging its adoption. Mr. Weathersby has more than 15 years of experience in the software development field, ranging from real-time process control to business intelligence software.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is a lead engineer for Aptana, working on development and deployment infrastructure for AJAX and Ruby on Rails applications. He led development of the Ruby Development Tools (RDT) project that brought Ruby support to the Eclipse IDE. He has also served as a mentor to students; one contributing to the project through the Google Summer of Code, and three others as part of their master’s theses. At Aptana, Mr. Williams continues his role of lead RDT developer in addition to heading development of Aptana RadRails. Prior to joining Aptana, he worked in R&D for both Paychex and Xerox.
Kamal Youbi
Kamal Youbi is executive vice president of Netfective Technology, in charge of R&D. He graduated as a State Engineer from ENSIAS, and has accumulated more than 10 years of experience in Java EE and .NET software development projects. Mr. Youbi is expert in object-oriented programming and MDA architecture, particularly in the Eclipse area, with experience in UML, EMF, MOF, MDR and OCL.
Alexander v. Zitzewitz
Alexander v. Zitzewitz is one of the founders of hello2morrow and has more than 20 years of experience with object oriented software development and software architecture in general. Currently he is leading the North American operations of hello2morrow.