Speakers

Teodor Dimitrov

Java Development Leader at Kaufland Service IT Hub

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.

Stoyan Rakadjiyski

Manager applications development and services for Bulgaria at DXC Technology

Stoyan Rakadjiyski is manager applications development and services for Bulgaria in DXC Technology. He holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and started his career in IT 24 years ago.

His team in DXC runs projects on latest technologies in Java, .Net and C++ for DXC customers, which are global leaders in their business domains such as Banking, Insurance, Transport, Health cate, Engineering software and others. The team is focused on getting deep knowledge in how the customers work and to deliver them innovation through adoption of next generation IT solutions.

Mark Stephen Meadows

Botanic Technologies, Inc
meadovian http://markmeadows.com

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.

Reza Rahman

Microsoft
m-reza-rahman https://reza-rahman.me/

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.

Java EE on Azure Magic Mystery Show

Day 2 - 11th Dec 17:00-17:50 Main Hall #Influencers Advanced

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.

Guide

How Microsoft Learned to Love Java

Day 1 - 10th Dec 17:00-17:50 Main Hall #Influencers Novice

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.

Slides

Mani Sarkar

Mani Sarkar is a passionate developer mainly in the Java/JVM space, currently strengthening teams and helping them accelerate when working with small teams and startups, as a Freelance Software, Data, ML engineer.

A Java Champion, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, JCP Member, OpenJDK contributor, thought leader at developer communities and involved with F/OSS projects like @graalvm, @wandb, nbQA-dev/nbQA, and others. Writes code, not just on the Java/JVM platform but in other programming languages as well, hence likes to call himself a polyglot developer. He sees himself working in the areas of core Java, Hotspot, GraalVM, Truffle, VMs, Performance Tuning, Data, and AI/ML/DL/NLP.

An advocate of a number of agile and software craftsmanship practices and a regular at many talks, conferences and hands-on-workshops – speaks, participates, organises and helps out at many of them. Expresses his thoughts often via blog posts (on his own blog site, DZone, Medium and other third-party sites), and microblogs (tweets).

You can read about my recent achievements and developments here.

Discussion :: Women in Software Development Industry – Challenges, Career, Leadership

Day 2 - 11th Dec 15:00-15:50 Hall 3.1 #J2D Advanced Discussion Mani Sarkar, Rayna Stankova, Irina Kamalova, Chiamaka Okenwa, Iva Abadjieva

Neil Stevenson

Hazelcast

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.

Lachezar Balev

REWE Digital
luchob http://balev.eu

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 Canellos

Red Hat
iocanel https://iocanel.com

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

BBC

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

Dassault Systemes
rcuprak http://cuprak.info

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.

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