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Reza Rahman is Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure at Microsoft. He works to make sure Java developers are first class citizens at Microsoft and Microsoft is a first class citizen of the Java ecosystem.
Reza has been an official Java technologist at Oracle. He is the author of the popular book EJB 3 in Action from Manning Publishing. Reza has long been a frequent speaker at Java User Groups and conferences worldwide including JavaOne and Devoxx. He has been the lead for the Java EE track at JavaOne as well as a JavaOne Rock Star Speaker award recipient. He was the program chair for the inaugural JakartaOne conference. Reza is an avid contributor to industry journals like JavaLobby/DZone and TheServerSide. He has been a member of the Java EE, EJB and JMS expert groups over the years. Reza implemented the EJB container for the Resin open source Java EE application server. He helps lead the Philadelphia Java User Group. Reza is proud to be a founding member of the Jakarta EE Ambassadors.
Reza has over a decade of experience with technology leadership, enterprise architecture and consulting. He has been working with Java EE technology since its inception, developing on almost every major application platform ranging from Tomcat to JBoss, GlassFish, WebSphere and WebLogic. Reza has developed enterprise systems for well-known companies like eBay, Motorola, Comcast, Nokia, Prudential, Guardian Life, USAA, Independence Blue Cross, Anthem, CapitalOne and AAA using Java EE and Spring. He is particularly interested in distributed systems, messaging, middleware, persistence and machine learning.
Reza is an inductee to Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most respected national honor society for undergraduates in liberal arts and sciences. He earned his bachelors degree from Gettysburg College. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a double major in Computer Science and Economics as well as a minor in Mathematics.
This fast-paced, demo-driven, entirely slide free session will show you the many ways of effectively deploying a Jakarta EE application to Azure. We will start by deploying a local Jakarta EE application to basic IaaS on Azure. We will then deploy the same application to an entirely managed Azure PaaS. Finally we will deploy the application to Azure using Docker and Kubernetes. We will discuss the trade-offs of each approach on the way, offering guidelines for which approach might be best for your application on the cloud. At the end of the session, you will have all the demos on GitHub so you can explore them on your own.
This session is a fast-paced tour of all things Java and Azure at the modern Microsoft of today. We will first talk about the why, how and what of Java and Microsoft. We will then dive right into the broad range of tools, services and APIs that Microsoft offers around Azure for Java developers. We will show a small but representative demo of a Java application most developers would feel familiar with running well on Azure. Lastly, we will discuss the road map for what Java developers can expect from Microsoft in the future. This session is as much about sharing what Microsoft offers today as it is about listening to what the Java community wants to see from Microsoft tomorrow.
Dr. Pavlin Dobrev is a Director at Bosch.IO. The company owned by Bosch is focused on developing AI-powered Internet of Things (IoT) solutions focused on connected IoT ecosystem and tear down silos to create a truly connected world. He is charge for the Quality Management of the Bosch IoT Suite, the entire support of ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 at Bosch.IO, as well as various research and customer projects.
Dr. Dobrev has more than two decades of experience with IoT, AI, Cloud and Java technologies, as well as in OSGi and embedded systems. He is an active participant in the OSGi Alliance, Java Community Process and other technical standards groups. He is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and participates in the development of the Eclipse IDE as a committer in the Equinox project.
Pavlin Dobrev has a PhD in Computer Systems in the area of Knowledge Management from the Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and holds an MsC in Computer Science from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University. He has written many scientific and technical publications and participated as speaker in prestigious international conferences.
Maria Hristova, PhD has a Master’s degree in Business and Human Resources Development & Administration. She specialized in Paris X Nanterre, integrating people with physical and mental disabilities. She is developing a scientific paper on the topic of Development of the dual career model in Bulgaria.
Maria has held the position of Commercial Director in a digital marketing agency for almost 14 years. She has been a lecturer in statistics for more than 4 years, and currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Sofia Municipal Agency for Privatization and Investment, part of the general administration of Sofia Municipality.
Result-oriented specialist in the field of digital strategies, innovations in the educational system and the dialogue between business, education and administration.
Martin is a graduate in Computer Science from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. He has been working in Germany as an embedded software engineer and has been developing mainly safety-critical low-level software in C/C++ and IoT systems. Martin is currently leading enterprise software projects at Zuhlke Engineering Bulgaria.
Dimitar Krastev is currently Expert Software Engineer at Zühlke Engineering. Before joining Zühlke, he was Senior Software Developer at VMware where he was involved as a consultant in various cloud projects, including leading telecommunication providers in Europe. During that period Dimitar was in several high-profile project requiring special customer focus. Alongside being full stack developer, he is specifically focused on customer facing workshops, escalation management and consulting.
Teodor is a Java Development Leader in Kaufland Service IT Hub. Even though he was recently promoted to the role Teo has previous experience in working in the Telecom industry as a Team Leader with a proven track record of leading people to success. He is also extremely oriented to teaching others as he was responsible for training people in the Software University.
Since he joined the IT Hub in 2017, he was part of the founding of two strategical projects K-Standards and Bau-Standards which are now successfully in production. He also took a huge role in the creation and development of the Internship Program of the company which he practically built from scratch. In his TL role he takes leadership of the Java Team and the Internship Program. He also utilizes his strong business partnership skills to ensure the smooth collaboration between the company international teams in all projects.
Meadows is an American author, inventor, artist and entrepreneur. With 18 years in AI, 22 in VR, and 7 years in blockchain he has designed and developed AI applications at some of the world’s top research labs (Xerox-PARC, SRI, Waag, and others). He has worked as a government-level consultant in both hemispheres, is the author of a half-dozen patents, and has written four books that examine technology and their social consequences. As founder / CEO of Botanic.io and co-founder / Trustee of SeedToken.io, he leads the vision of the companies by inventing new methods of computer-human interaction, designing the hearts and minds of highly social software robots.
Neil Stevenson is a Solution Architect for Hazelcast®, the Industry’s leading open source In-Memory Computing Platform.
In more than 25 years of work in IT, Neil has designed, developed and debugged a number of software systems for companies large and small.
I am a software engineer with 19+ years real experience in various projects. I met Java in 2000 in the form of J2SE 1.2. But my hello world “application” was written in BASIC long before that. Currently I work at REWE Digital Bulgaria on an exciting Microservice oriented architecture. I’m a curious person – I love to experiment, peek under the hood of popular open source frameworks and build usable and reliable software. You can meet me at Stack Overflow, GitHub, and some smaller online communities. In my free time I love riding my motorbike around the country.
Ioannis has more than 15 years experience as Java developer 7 of which are as full time OpenSource developer.
He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, with contribution to numerous projects as a committer and PMC member.
He is currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat as part of Red Hat Spring team, where he spends most of his time implementing tools and frameworks related to Kubernetes, Openshift and Spring Boot.
Blanca Garcia Gil is a principal systems engineer at BBC. She currently works on a team whose aim is to provide a reliable platform at petabyte scale for data engineering and machine learning.
Last year she gave her first talk at DevoxxUK and is keen in sharing her journey and the positive benefits it has had one year on.
Ryan Cuprak is an CPG & Retail, Formulation R&D Development Senior Manager at Dassault Systemes, co-author EJB in Action 2nd Edition from Manning and the NetBeans Certification Guide from McGrall-Hill. He is also president of the Connecticut Java Users Group since 2003. Ryan is a JavaOne Rockstar Presenter. At Dassault Systemes he works on the ENOVIA Enginuity chemical formulation software and is involved in desktop and backend server development as well as client data migrations. Prior to joining DS, Ryan worked for a distributed computing company, TurboWorx, and also Eastman Kodak’s Molecular imaging Systems group, now part of Burker. Ryan earned a BS in computer science and biology from Loyola University Chicago.
Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. She is Liberty Microservices Architect and Advocate, STSM in IBM, based at Hursley Lab in the UK. Emily is a senior MicroProfile lead and has been working on MicroProfile since 2016 and leads the specifications of MicroProfile Config, Fault Tolerance and Service Mesh. She is CDI Expert Group member.
She has worked on the WebSphere Application Server since 2006 and is heavily involved in Java EE and MicroProfile implementation in Liberty releases.
She regularly speaks at conferences, such as Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx US, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx UK, Devoxx France, EclipseCon, etc. Follow her on Twitter @emilyfhjiang and/or connect with her on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-jiang-60803812/).
Luis Weir is a Director of Software Development at Oracle and a former Chief Architect at Capgemini, Oracle Ace Director and Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. An API management and microservices evangelist, Luis has over 17 years of experience implementing complex distributed systems around the world.
Co-author of 3 other books as well as numerous articles and white papers, Luis has been a frequent speaker frequent speaker at known events such as CodeOne, Devoxx, Gartner AAD&I, Oracle OpenWorld, Java2Days and many user groups and meetups.
Luis holds an MS in Corporate Networks and Systems Integration from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) and a BS in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Nueva Esparta.
Tom Mueller is a Staff Engineer 2 at VMware specializing in the development and cloud deployment of the Workspace ONE Access product which provides federated user authentication and control of application access for the Workspace ONE suite. Tom’s experience with Java dates back almost to when it was called Oak and included early applet development and later server development with portlets (JSR-168), the Java EE reference implementation (Glassfish), and various identity-related technologies. His current role involves full stack development of both cloud-hosted and on-premises software solutions.
Josef is a Security Engineer at Hazelcast. He is a passionate Java developer, open-source contributor and decent runner. He spent 10+ years by focusing on different aspects of application security. He takes care of security at Hazelcast, before that he was a security freak at JBoss. Josef maintains several open-source projects – for instance the jd-cmd (command line wrapper for Java Decompiler), JSignPdf (digital signatures for PDFs), totp-me (TOTP authenticator for Java ME enabled devices).
My name is Tushka and I am a Java Technical lead at Scalefocus. I work mainly in Java based projects. I have strong technical background mostly as a Java backend developer.
I am passionate about new technologies and mentoring. I am also interested in topics for self-improvement and coaching.
I love traveling abroad, meeting new people and learning about other cultures.
Anton has spent more than three years in commercial front-end development and has been passionate about it since high school. Currently, he is an eager explorer of Typescript, functional, and reactive programming, as well as making beautiful interfaces. Anton also loves various sports and enjoys traveling in his spare time.
Ali Ok works for Red Hat with a strong focus on the cloud. He is an Apache committer.
He is using Kubernetes, OpenShift and Operators in his day-to-day activities.
He experiments with many other emerging technologies in his free time.
Georgi is a full-stack developer with more than 5 years experience with Java programming and related technologies. He has worked across various fields such as banking, fintech, logistics and telecoms. Georgi enjoys developing both front-end and back-end applications, however his favourite language remains Java for its flexibility and huge potential. In his free time, he enjoys sports, movies and spending time with his friends and family.
Born and raised in Prague, Czech Republic, Ondrej has spent the last couple of years leading engineering teams in Seattle, WA. In his 12+ years in the industry, he has worked on a variety of products from search engines to mobile apps, as a full stack software engineer, a field engineer, and an engineering leader. His recent work involved shipping features for VMware Workspace ONE UEM which integrate with computer assembly lines at Dell Technologies. And now he’s building a new team to tackle identity and single sign-on across the portfolio of VMware products.
Georgi is a software engineer with more than 15 years of experience and background in a wide range of contexts (such as banking, insurances, large retail). Most of the time he is focusing on backend development with Spring Boot but also likes Angular and Android development. Currently he is working for REWE Digital.
Georgios is a Senior Software Engineer working for Red Hat. He works on Java frameworks and their synergies with cloud native systems but also has a taste for DevOps and Data Engineering.
Vladimir is a technical product manager with an engineering background (Master’s degree in Computer science) and deep expertise in stream processing and real-time data pipelines. Ten years of building internal software platforms and development infrastructure have made him passionate about new technologies and finding ways to simplify data processing. Therefore Vladimir joined Hazelcast in 2016 and he is a product guy behind Hazelcast Jet streaming engine. He authored the Understanding Stream Processing DZone Refcard. Vladimir is also a lecturer with the Czechitas Foundation, whose mission is to inspire women and girls to explore the world of information technology.
Christian is creating the environment to develop, innovate and truly collaborate at Zühlke Engineering in Munich. He comes from a software development and architecture background. Currently, he does a lot of interesting things: team leadership – being responsible for the team in Munich and building up our team in Sofia. Christian is constantly thinking how to improve the way his teams work together. He is also consulting clients on how to get going with innovation, and how to adopt agility and technology on the way.
Technical Lead and Solution Architect with experience building direct-to-client and back-office financial services platforms covering the full stack.
Excited to demonstrate how good architecture, collaboration and process can enable incremental and reliable delivery on transformative business goals and realise the disruptive opportunities of technology.
An advocate for message driven and microservice architectures to enable low risk, responsive change.
Master iOS developer with over eight years of hands-on experience, Pavel is in a never-ending search for processes and tools that produce faster, better mobile applications. Pavel leads a multinational distributed team of developers located in different offices and knows how to unite them in pursuit of an end product. He’s a fan of Alistair Cockburn that believes agile methodologies will save the world. He doesn’t understand the term feature freeze.
Jack Shirazi works in the Performance and Reliability team at Hotels.com, part of Expedia Group. He is the founder of JavaPerformanceTuning.com and author of Java Performance Tuning (O’Reilly), and has been an official Java
Champion since 2005.
Jack has worked at all levels and all stages of IT projects in several industries including with real-time, low latency and highly scaled applications. As well as authoring his popular book and contributing to several other books, Jack has published over 60 articles on Java performance for various sites and magazines; and has published over 200 newsletters for JavaPerformanceTuning.com over 15 years, and with these newsletters published around 10,000 Java performance and memory related tips.
Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion and JUG Leader based in Sweden.
Ivar is the PMC Lead for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) and involved in the Jakarta EE Working Group. He is also one of the community representatives in the JCP Executive Committee as well as specification lead for JSR 371 (MVC 1.0).
Ivar is also involved in Eclipse MicroProfile, Apache NetBeans and a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.
Dr Paul King has been contributing to open source projects for nearly 30 years and is an active committer on numerous projects including Groovy, GPars and Gradle. Paul speaks at international conferences, publishes in software magazines and journals, and is a co-author of Manning’s best-seller: Groovy in Action, 2nd Edition.
Rudy loves to create (web) applications with the Java EE platform and MicroProfile implementations and is currently working for Payara Services Limited in the Service Team. He helps customers, writes technical content, is part of some MicroProfile implementations and advocates the Payara Products in various ways.
He is active in the IT industry for more than 20 years and created many applications for customers. He is also a big fan of OpenSource and helped in various OpenSource projects like DeltaSpike, PrimeFaces, and Apache Myfaces. He is also passionate about Web Application Security using OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and JWT. He maintains the Octopus OpenSource project and is a member of the Jakarta EE Security API team.
Java Byte code is OS independent, which means that your application’s startup takes more time than a native image. Using the Class Data Sharing functionality introduced in more recent versions of the JVM, you can prepare your application so that it will load very fast.
In this presentation, I’ll go into more detail what Class Data Sharing is and the differences between the OpenJDK and OpenJ9 versions. With some Jakarta EE demo applications, you will see gains that you can achieve and reduce memory footprint a lot in Docker containers by sharing memory.
After a decade as an expert in software engineering and information security, Vlad has been specializing in iOS development for the past three years and has advanced knowledge of Swift and Objective-C. Vlad is a guru of FinTech software development and is passionate about exploring different architectural approaches. He’s committed to finding new ways to make developers’ life more manageable, writing elegant, well-designed, and efficient code that is in line with modern iOS development trends. All of his hobbies are connected to music, Vlad enjoys playing the guitar and drums as well as doing vocal and sound recordings.
Senior software engineer at VMware with over ten years of experience, yes, I know, that is not so much and passion for travel. If you want to know more about my professional life, feel free to stalk me on LinkedIn but if you want to see my passion in action my travel blog.
As a Solution Architect at Tide, Tom spends most of his time designing different components of the core product of the fintech challenger.
Apart from that he reads, experiments, teaches and spreads the word for other exciting technologies such as Flutter, Kotlin, Go, Firebase and Google Cloud Platform.
Outside the office, he prays for deep snow, a waxed snowboard and a working lift.
Ioannis Kolaxis is a Software Architect at Atos Greece, developing innovative software products for Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC). He likes sharing his knowledge & experience with the developer community, speaking at conferences like Oracle Code One 2019 (San Francisco, USA) & local meetups, such as the Java Hellenic User Group (Athens, Greece) & Thessaloniki Java Meetup (Thessaloniki, Greece). He frequently writes articles on LinkedIn and Developer Zone, focusing on Software Engineering topics, like Java and Software Quality. He is certified as a European Professional Engineer (EUR ING), and a Professional Scrum Master (PSM I). In 2017, he was awarded by Atos with the title of “Senior Digital Expert”, as a recognition of his technical expertise and professional accomplishments.
Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology. Has almost 7 years of experience in software engineering. Open source contributor, author of articles and speaker.
Cloud software engineer at Hazelcast, author of the book “Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins”, trainer, and conference speaker. He specializes in Java development, Cloud environments, and Continuous Delivery. Former employee in a number of companies and scientific organizations: Google, CERN, AGH University, and more.
How well tested is your system? How do you measure it? Code coverage can give you the answer, however can we trust our unit tests? Trust me or not, but I used to work for the investment banking industry in a big project where a lot of unit tests had no assertions (!). And yes… the coverage was very high.
Mutation testing is a method to check the quality of your unit tests and show more reasonable code coverage reports. In this session I will describe the idea of mutation testing and show a live example with the use of PIT Mutation Testing framework.
Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a teacher in universities and higher education schools, a trainer and triples as a book author.
While a microservices architecture is more scalable than a monolith, it has a direct hit on performance.
To cope with that, one performance improvement is to set up a cache. It can be configured for database access, for REST calls or just to store session state across a cluster of server nodes. In this demo-based talk, I’ll show how Hazelcast In-Memory Data Grid can help you in each one of those areas and how to configure it. Hint: it’s much easier than one would expect.
Tamaghna Basu, CTO of neoEYED Inc. is on the mission to www.killthepassword.com to build a safer world with stronger, yet very convenient authentication mechanism for companies and end-users. He is a hacker, speaker, trainer and a developer too. He has more than 15 years of experience in cyber-security domain and worked in large enterprises like PwC, Paypal, Walmart etc. to help them secure their products. His main areas of research include application security and network pen‐testing, incident handling and cyber forensics. Being a software developer earlier, he worked in python, java, .net, ruby etc. and various domains like finance, insurance, gaming etc. He is a frequent speaker/trainer in various conferences like NULLCON, C0C0N, OWASP, ISACA etc. and member of NULL, DSCI and other communities. He also contributed to security magazines like Clubhack and ISACA journal. He has accomplished various other certifications like Cyber Crime Investigation, Diploma in Cyber Law, OSCP, GCIH etc.
Andrew Lombardi is one of a new breed of businessmen: the enlightened entrepreneur. He has been writing code since he was a 5-year old, sitting at his dad’s knee at their Apple II computer. Having such a deep affinity for the computer model, it is no surprise that at the age of 17 he began to delve deeply into the inner workings of the human mind. He became a student of Neuro Linguistic Programming and other mind technologies, and then went on to study metaphysics. He is certified as an NLP Trainer, Master Hypnotherapist and Time Line Therapy practitioner.
Using all of his accumulated skills, at the age of 24, Andrew began his consulting business, Mystic Coders, LLC. Since the inception of Mystic in 2000, Andrew has been building the business and studying finance and economics as he stays on the cutting edge of computer technology.
Subho Halder is the Co-Founder and CTO at Appknox, a mobile security company that helps developers and companies to build secure mobile application. He looks after the security technologies and the product development to ensure we are always ahead in our game. Subho has previously developed AFE (Android Framework for Exploitation) and has done in-depth research and analysis on mobile platforms. He has been also listed multiple number of times in various Hall Of Fame for finding out critical security vulnerabilities in Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and many more. He has presented many talks and conducted workshops at conferences like Black Hat, Defcon, ToorCon, SysCan, ClubHack, NullCon, OWASP AppSec, RSA Conference.
CTO and Co-Founder Zelros
Miro is a Co-founder and VP Engineering at DNAstack, where he builds a leading genomics cloud platform. He is a Java enthusiast with expertise in distributed systems and middleware, passionate about genetics and making meaningful software. Miro is the creator of the largest search and discovery engine of human genetic data, and the author of a book on parallelization of genomic queries. In his spare time, he blogs and contributes to several open-source projects.
Nikolay Stoitsev is a software engineer at Uber where he builds scalable and fault-tolerant backend distributed systems. He is also a teaching assistant at Sofia University in Sofia, Bulgaria. The projects he is working on allow 3 million people around to world to earn money on their own schedule.
Werner Keil has worked for more than 25 years as project manager, software architect, analyst and consultant on leading-edge technologies for Banking, Insurance, Telco/Mobile, Media and Public sector.
Among his earlier clients are Sony where Werner designed and implemented micro-format based tags for Sony Music.
He develops enterprise systems using Java, Java EE, Oracle or IBM, does Web design and development using Adobe, Ajax/JavaScript or dynamic languages like Ruby, PHP, etc.
Besides work for major companies he runs his own creative, talent and consulting agency Creative Arts & Technologies. In his spare time, he runs and supports open-source projects, writes song lyrics, novels, screenplays and technical articles. He is committing member of Eclipse Foundation, Apache Foundation and the Java Community Process, including his role as JSR-363 Spec Lead and Executive Committee Member.
The amount of data collected by applications nowadays is growing at a scary pace. Many of them need to handle billions of users generating and consuming data at an incredible speed. Maybe you are wondering how to create an application like this? What is required? What works best for your project?
Martin is a solution architect and IT consultant conducting professional trainings for novice and experienced developers. He is a Java enthusiast and one of the leads of the Bulgarian Java User group (BG JUG). Martin is also a regular speaker at Java conferences and helps with the organization of the jPrime conference in Bulgaria (http://jprime.io/).
Elasticsearch is nowadays one of the most widely deployed full text search engines. During this code-only session we will review several options for integrating our Java applications with Elasticsearch.
About Serhii:
Oracle Certified Java Expert. Contributes as a speaker on meet-ups, communities and conferences, mentors colleagues, has deep experience in telecom area and likes ham radio beyond programming. Roman is the most concentrated on topics about Spring, JVM performance, security, distributed systems, microservices and docker.
Organizer of Lohika’s Java community – weekly meetings with live coding session, new framework investigation, sharing experience.
Program committee member of morning@lohika community – monthly meet-up events for developers.
Thodoris works as a Scrum Master for ABN Amro bank and contributes to the prosperity of the (software) community in several ways. He is the Founder & Leader of Utrecht Java User Group, which counts more than 2000 members and has hosted exceptional speakers (where among others, James Gosling and Uncle Bob). Besides, he serves the Expert Group of JSR-385 and helps new communities to make their first steps. Previously: 5 years of Software Engineering, 2 years as a Technical Author, Open-source contributor. His views are expressed via his Twitter handle @thodorisbais
Denis Tsyplakov is a professional software developer and architect, who started coding in the late eighties as a hobby. By mid-nineties, the demand for software engineers drove him to turn his hobby into profession. Although Denis is a master of a variety of programming languages, his favorite one is Java because of its power, flexibility and elegance. Since 2006, Denis has been working at DataArt as a senior solution architect. He designs complex systems, improves application architecture, and focuses on performance, scale, extensibility, and total cost of ownership. And he does mentoring of other junior architects too. Denis spends his free time with the family, his lovely wife and two daughters; he enjoys hiking and sci-fi books.
Marc Gregoire is a software architect from Belgium. He worked 6 years as a consultant for Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks on critical 2G and 3G software running on Solaris for telecom operators. This required working with international teams stretching from South America and the United States to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Now, Marc is a software architect at Nikon Metrology (www.nikonmetrology.com), a division of Nikon and a leading provider of precision optical instruments and metrology solutions for 3D geometric inspection.
His main expertise is in C/C++, and specifically Microsoft VC++ and the MFC framework. He has experience in developing C++ programs running 24/7 on Windows and Linux platforms: for example, KNX/EIB home automation software. In addition to C/C++, Marc also likes C# and uses PHP for creating web pages.
Since April 2007, he has received the annual Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for his Visual C++ expertise.
Marc is the founder of the Belgian C++ Users Group (www.becpp.org), author of “Professional C++” 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions, published by Wiley/Wrox, co-author of “C++ Standard Library Quick Reference” (Apress), technical editor for numerous books for several publishers, and a member on the CodeGuru forum (as Marc G). He maintains a blog at www.nuonsoft.com/blog/, and is passionate about traveling and gastronomic restaurants.
Zdravko is a confident, responsible and proactive software engineer with 5+ years of experience in various challenging software projects. I possess excellent communicational, organizational and analytical skills. I have significant knowledge in front-end development with CSS and JavaScript as well as in back-end development with Java technologies. I am a great team player and a valuable part of any development team.
Rumen is a skilled Java developer with more than 10 years of experience. He’s been developing on Spring, JavaEE, Angular and many more technologies. Currently he is facing the challenge of leading a team that creates the backend of an application that will be used across all Kaufland stores.
Stanimir is a JavaEE developer with plenty of experience in creating web applications. He has joined IT Hub Kaufland in 2017. Currently he is building a complex backend architecture in an international project. In his free time he is doing marathons.
Ivan is a Java developer with experience in different industries like health care, banking, FinTech. Currently working at Kaufland Service IT Hub. Passionate about new and innovative technologies. Always keen to learn and help.
Georgi is a skilled Java developer with a lot of experience in the area of web technologies. He is ацтижелъ developing in Spring Boot and also mentoring the trainees in the company. Georgi is working in IT Hub Kaufland since 2017. Besides work he shares a big passion for mountains.
Alan is currently working at Zendesk where he leads the mobile engineering teams working on both Apps and SDKs. He has a great passion for software engineering and building high quality applications that are both functional but also beautiful. Building on his 10+ years of commercial software development, has a wide breath of knowledge which include highlights like building the first prototypes at MasterCard of the system which powers Apple Pay and Android Pay.
My name is Jeronimo Martinez, I am a software engineer at DataArt. I’ve been writing software for about 15 years for different companies in Spain, Ireland and Poland. On my day-to-day work, I design, build and maintain big enterprise systems and data pipelines. On my spare time, I research new and interesting technologies, mostly related to functional programming, data engineering and machine learning, and then I try to make that somehow leak into my day to day work 😉
I have always been working for TechnoLogica Ltd.
If You measure experience in years, then mine score is 12+. I see my work as developing practical solutions to various chalenges. Main focus for me is reliability and speed in data processing. My best programing languages are PL/SQL, Java and SQL. My sort list of most encountered topics is – XML, JSON, document signatures, data masking, certificates, stream processing, big data, formula evaluation etc.
Radoslav Markov is well known across digital media community. He is first internetist in Bulgaria (since 1987). Also he is a pioneer of digital cinema, digital restauration and scientific technologies with application in media, especially audiovisual restauration. He is frequent speaker at biggest conference for TV and cinema technology IBC Amsterdam (https://show.ibc.org/speakers19/radoslav-markov), but also at ARRI Archival workshop,No Time to Wait, Photonex and many other international grade events.
Vasil Chomakov is а Senior Software Engineer at VMware with 10 years of experience in the software industry.
He has specialized in building full-stack solutions for virtual infrastructure management as well as telemetry collection, management and analytics. Vasil possesses an extensive experience as a lecturer at Sofia University, VMware TalentBoost Academy and CoderDojo.
Włodek Krakowski is a team leader and independent technical trainer. Also a developer if the time allows. His main interest is taking care of delivering valued software from different perspectives. These are how people take care of quality of code, how people work together towards providing business value, how people help to grow each other and how people are managed. Currently he works as IT Team Leader in Kraków, Poland and delivers technical / refactoring trainings at www.refactoring.pl.
Konrad is a software engineer working at Allegro, a major Polish e-commerce company. He has 20 years of experience in the IT industry in various roles (mostly as a developer and a technical leader) in software companies. He spent the last 17 years of his career with Java-related technologies. For the past two years he’s used Kotlin as his primary programming language (with delight). He blogs a bit, gives talks and trainings and contributes to open source.
Marcin Moskala is an experienced Android developer, teacher, and an official Jetbrains’ Kotlin training partner. He is the founder of Kt. Academy, author of the book “Android Development with Kotlin”, and an active programming community member. He is also the main author on the biggest medium publication about Kotlin and a speaker invited to many programming conferences.
Nikolay Angelov got into coding in early 2007 when he wrote his first mIRC script. He realized his love for coding and jumped into Web Programming. He continued to work in the field for 8 years and gained experience with various languages, for example, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. He then took a short break from programming to work on personal projects. A year ago, Nikolay re-discovered his passion for programming while taking a course about Blockchain. He is now a Blockchain Trainer and a Blockchain Developer. His passions are everything Blockchain, Solidity, C++, Vim and Blogging. Nikolay has a Personal Blog where you can read about topics that interest him: http://nikolaytech.com
Tihomir has more than 10 years of experience developing web applications, the last 6 of them working on user interfaces for VMware’s vSphere suite. He is currently a part of the team that is transforming the extensibility model of the suite and the way third party plugins are loaded, authenticated and isolated.
Simon Stone is currently the lead engineer for the IBM Blockchain Platform developer experience team based in Hursley, UK. His main focus is on building APIs, SDKs, and developer tools that blockchain developers can use to build smart contracts and applications on their journey to disrupting industries and enhancing the way businesses work together. He is a regular contributor to open source software under the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project, and a maintainer for Hyperledger Fabric.
Physics master’s graduate, machine learning engineer and total word nerd.
I have strong interest in privacy and I’ve been following the area for a couple of years. Since 2018 I’m working as communication assistant in e Foundation. Prior to that I’ve worked on Windows server related projects at HP Bulgaria. I have studied computer science and Business Administration and I have diverse interests including Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence and Bitcoin.
Irrepressible startup enthusiast, entrepreneur, lecturer, activist at the Programmer’s Club in Veliko Tarnovo. Started in 2013 the Tinusaur Project – an educational platform for learning electronics, robotics and programming. Co-founded in 2007 Interlecta, a product company with offices in Bulgaria and in US that develops products in the field of telemedicine.
Stefan, like most geeks, rejected the faith of his parents early in his childhood. Later in life, however, he missed the community support and sense of purpose that religious people enjoy – until he found Pastafarianism.
He converted to his new faith in 2009 and has spearheaded the Bulgarian branch of the church ever since. In 2016 Stefan and his now wife became the first couple in Bulgaria (and only 2nd in the world) to have a Pastafarian wedding ceremony, a rite they now recommend for everyone who finds the traditional church wedding boring and misogynistic.
Venelin Nikolov is a lecturer in Informatics and Information Technology at Vasil Levski Primary School in Razgrad. His professional career as an ICT teacher began at Nikola Economov Primary School in the city, where in 2009 she created the first virtual classroom in Bulgaria with 32 physical devices for teacher’s and students’ work. This innovation brings him the Teacher of the Year award and a meeting with the President of the Republic of Bulgaria on the occasion of May 24th.
Our robotics club is a town team. It is five years old, with kids from the first to twelfth grade. A student from the sixth grade invented the name of the team while watching the keyboard of the computer. These are the first letters of the left upper part of the keyboard. We gather together twice a week and work in groups. We do LEGO-robotics. We first construct robots and after that we program them for specific tasks and missions to help people. During the meetings we work and have fun. We often play team games or compete with the robots that we constructed. Once a month we organize sumo fights. On celebrations we take part with our robots. We like to show the constructed by us mechanisms and the programmes to students from our and other schools. It happens when our school celebrates.
Co-founder in Kinder Coder. Kinder Coder is a small programming club for kids, created and developed with great passion by a young couple. They explore and develop creative ways to ensure conditions for children to make their first steps in the world of coding in an easy and funny way. Through local workshops, courses and trainings in robotics Kinder Coder is provoking kids interest and passion for digital skills. The club is located in a small town and its founders are focused on developing their activity in small cities where programming for kids is not popular and often even impossible.
In the last few years he was a Technical Lead, Manager of Software Development and had other similar roles. He co-founded DostaviTuk and SuperSecure.
Email (email solution for SMEs) and contributed to open source community via his open source project EasyMail at GitHub. Gyuner’s work involves creating Architectural solutions, Proof of Concepts (PoC) and leading teams towards achieving goals.
Despite his young age of 27, he has been in the IT industry for more than 10 years. He completed studying Informatics at Plovdiv university “Paisii Hilendarski”.
He is a professional lecturer and has trained more than 100 students in programming both in classrooms groups and one on one.
Taniyana Georgieva is an Organizational Leader at Association of the Bulgarian Leaders and Entrepreneurs (ABLE)
– an active community of over 300 young professionals and entrepreneurs who develop projects with main focus on leadership and entrepreneurship which are driving the positive change in Bulgaria. Their portfolio includes a mentorship program for high-school students, an early stage entrepreneurship program for university students and young professionals, a course in doing business for real-economy businesses, a startup competition awarding the best startups and ecosystem players in Bulgaria each year.
Taniyana is a Psychology graduate with specialization in Organizational Psychology and a master of Psychological Counseling. She is a certified coach from the American Institution “Quantum Success Coaching Academy” and for the past 5 years has been doing professional coaching for different NGOs in Bulgaria and abroad. The last 2 years her experience spreads in the fields of Human Resource Management
and Project Management before taking the role of community manager of ABLE. Over all she has 9 years of volunteering experience in the NGO sector being on various leadership positions working on fundraising, event management, marketing and raising awareness on important topics as a whole.
Particularly passionate about mental health and fulfillment of humankind’s potential, Taniyana has been actively working and advocating for building healthy, encouraging and productive organizational cultures where employees feel happy and motivated to grow professionally in their particular company or organization. By this solving the problems with high turnover, disengagement of employees, bad or lacking onboarding and so many more.
Тесен специалист в сферата на soft skills тренинги с повече от 11 години практическият опит в работата с над 60 компании в България и в страните на Балканския полуостров. Образованието, лицензите и сертификатите му го поставят сред най-стойностните специалисти в областта на обученията в бизнеса. Понастоящем: управител на I can be … и създател на продуктите на Znam.be
Уеб разработчик и предприемач. Разработил платоформите Schoodle свързаща учители и родители през Интернет, QRL (bit.ly за QR кодове), Peoplegogo (Crowdfunding платформа за благотворителни дейности) и StartupStage (мрежа от предприемачи и Startup-и, помагащи на други Startup-и да развият своята бизнес концепция).
Co-founders George Petrov and Ivan Shopov embark on the shared quest of “accelerating the world’s transition to electric vehicles” by designing a more engaging and inspiring driving experience. FuseMotion’s first product is designed for our auditory senses. Visit us and experience the sound of the future of mobility.
Emil is an entrepreneur, teacher and “to the moon” cabin crew recruiter. He has been in the 9-5 business for a few years, learning teamwork, developing management skills and understanding how business works. “I never left my job, without being sure of my next adventure will yield and become sustainable. But when it happened I knew I was ready to leave my job. Drastic changes in life should be made slowly.”
В Cherryz.work няма отворени пространства, а само отделни офиси. Това помага на стартиращите екипи да се концентрират и развиват. Ето защо, Cherryz.work има потенциала да се превърне в твоето ново работно място.
Hi to all Swift Enthusiasts in Bulgaria. Let’s start the talk on Swift. It’s been around for a while and the community is there, eager to meet and share experience.
We will do meetups every month to discuss and discover the variety of functionalities of Swift. The meetups won’t be so much of sit & listen type of conference,
but rather practical hands on sessions.
#SpoDari (от спортувай и дарявай) е идеята ни за това как можем да съчетаем спорт и добра кауза. Всички имаме нужда да се движим и спортуваме.
Движението ни зарежда, движението ни мотивира, движението ни прави по-усмихнати и позитивни. А ако работното и домашното ни ежедневие
не ни раздвижват достатъчно, трябва да се постараем, за да сме жизнени и здрави.
The Bulgarian Java User group was founded in September 2007 along with a mailing list for discussion
of any Java-related questions, problems and upcoming technologies. After a short period of dormancy,
five members set leadership board in 2013. It triggered regular meetups and sessions once or twice a
month with local and foreign speakers. The JUG first took part in several Adopt OpenJDK activities and
soon after that became JCP member. The events and workshops organized by the community are
sponsored and backed up by IT companies on the Bulgarian market
GDG Sofia is а group of enthusiasts that gather around Google technologies. We organize different events – seminars, conferences or just dine outs, and discuss the latests developments.
Василена Василева е част от екипа на DEV.BG – най-голямата ИТ общност в България и активен член на Women Who Code – Sofia! Организатор на събития по професия и доброволец по душа.
Women Who Code Sofia е българският клон на женската общност, чиято цел е да вдъхновява и подкрепя жени в тяхното развитие в технологичен и социален аспект.
Инициативната започва преди 3 години като част от международната общност “Women Who Code”, присъстваща в повечето страни в света.
В момента Women Who Code Sofia е най-разпознаваемата женска организация в IT сектора, която организира всеки месец събития с различна тематика.
По време на презентацията ще разберете какво предстои на организацията през 2020 г. и кои са новите предизвикателства пред тях.
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Java2Days, the first Java conference held in Eastern Europe, takes place in the modern Inter Expo Center in Sofia. This year there were almost 1000 attendees, representing a large growth since the show first opened in 2009.
Java2Days 2015 was held on November 2-4 in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is far and away the largest Java conference in the Balkans region and now perhaps one of the most important conferences in Europe as a whole.
Java2Days is the major conference in Eastern Europe focused on Java technologies. The conference is the best PR for software industry in Bulgaria and the region.
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