JavaOne Program Committee

Meet the committee members

Thank you to the JavaOne Program Committee who helped review, evaluate, and elevate the content for this event. We are grateful for their help, guidance, and support to ensure we have an amazing line-up of valuable content and speakers at JavaOne.

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Developer, CodeRanch
Director of Software Development, Oracle
Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle
Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Java Champion, Digital Aquacates
Chairman, NYJavaSIG
Oracle Java Developer Relations, Oracle
Developer Advocate, JetBrains
Developer Advocate, IBM
Director of Product Management, Oracle
Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Consulting Research Scientist, Oracle
Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Software Architect, Oracle
Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat
Director, Java in Education, Oracle
Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle
President, Agile Developer, Inc.
Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom

Monica Beckwith

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Monica is a JVM performance engineer at Microsoft, leading optimizations and scalability studies for JVM-based workloads at server-side and enterprise scale. Previously at AMD and Sun/Oracle, Monica made numerous contributions to OpenJDK performance, including advancements in NUMA optimizations. Her last role at Oracle was as G1 performance lead, where she improved the out-of-box experience and adaptability of the collector, setting new standards in JVM performance. With expertise across x86-64 (AMD and Intel), ARM architectures, and accelerators, she now contributes to Azure Core and Azure Compute, focusing on power and performance scalability for Azure data center systems. Monica is the author of “JVM Performance Engineering: Inside OpenJDK and the Hotspot Java Virtual Machine” and co-author of “Java Performance Companion.” A Java Champion and frequent keynote speaker, she shares insights at industry conferences and actively supports Java’s evolution within the tech community. Outside of her technical work, Monica mentors young STEM enthusiasts as a First Lego League coach, embodying her values of authenticity and lifelong learning.

Jeanne Boyarsky

Developer, CodeRanch

Jeanne is a Java Champion from New York City and has been a Java developer for more than 21 years. She has split her time between development and being a Scrum Master for the last decade. Jeanne has co-authored Wiley’s Oracle Java 8/11/17/21 certification books along with a new book: “Real World Java.” Jeanne volunteers at CodeRanch and mentors the programmers on a high school robotics team in her free time. She has spoken at numerous conferences including Dev Nexus, QCon, KCDC, and JavaOne.

Ed Bratt

Director of Software Development, Oracle

Ed currently leads the development team for Helidon at Oracle. He is an active contributor to the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile working groups at Eclipse Foundation. He has been a development team leader for many years. He led the team developing JMS 2.0 and later led the team contributing Java EE to Eclipse Foundation, then migrating it to Jakarta EE. Ed has contributed to and presented at JavaOne conferences since the early 2000's and has been actively involved in Enterprise Java releases since EE 5.

Sharat Chander

Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle

Sharat is the global Java community leader at Oracle. Sharat has been actively involved in the developer ecosystem for 20+ years, helping drive greater Java awareness, acceptance, adoption, and advocacy, as well as building, growing, and nurturing the Java community. He continues to serve as the JavaOne conference chairperson, speaks frequently at Java events around the world, and helps drive the Java User Group program and Java Champions luminary program.

Joe Darcy

Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Joe is a long-term JDK developer at Oracle in the core libraries and language areas who also leads the Compatibility and Specification Review (CSR) OpenJDK group. A former JavaOne Rock Star speaker, Joe returns as a program committee member with over a decade of experience as a core track reviewer at prior JavaOne events.

Erik Gahlin

Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Erik is an OpenJDK contributor working for Oracle in the Java Platform Group. He specializes in the HotSpot JVM and JDK Flight Recorder, enhancing the performance and diagnostics capabilities of the Java platform. Besides diving into JVM internals, Erik enjoys designing Java APIs and developing tools to visualize JFR recording data. Passionate about advancing Java technology, he actively shares his knowledge with the community.

Trisha Gee

Java Champion, Digital Aquacates

Trisha is a software engineer, Java Champion and author. Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries of all sizes, including finance, manufacturing and non-profit. She has expertise in Java high-performance systems and dabbles with Open Source development. Trisha is exceptionally passionate about sharing things that help real developers. That might be: getting them up to speed on the latest version of Java; teaching them tips and tricks to improve their productivity; or promoting healthy technical communities across the globe. Trisha loves helping all developers level up their career and skills at every step of their journey. Read more from Trisha in the books “Head First Java,”,“Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA,” “97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know” and “What to Look for in a Code Review.”

Frank Greco

Chairman, NYJavaSIG

Frank is a long-time denizen of the local NY tech scene, a senior consultant and enterprise architect focusing on AI / Machine Learning, Cloud, and Mobile/Edge computing. More than just a conventional consultant, Frank is a long-time educator, a prolific writer, a developer community builder, a mentor, a proponent of DEI, and an expert on tech partnerships and innovations, especially in financial systems and enterprise computing. Frank is the co-author of JSR #381 "VisRec," a Java API for visual recognition and machine learning. He often shares his insights at top tech conferences worldwide, such as QCon, DevNexus, Dev2next, Jfokus, Devoxx, IDEA Conf, TechTran, and many others. In addition, Frank is a recognized Java Champion and the founder/Chairman of NYJavaSIG, the world’s first and North America’s largest Java User Group. Frank authored and performed “Java Jam” with the band The Yield, the first song about Java, at The Bitter End in 1996.

Jim Grisanzio

Oracle Java Developer Relations, Oracle

Jim works at Oracle on the Java Developer Relations Team. He hosts the Duke’s Corner Podcast, where he interviews Java developers around the world to capture their stories about the technology and the community. Jim also publishes the Inside Java Newsletter, produces video and photography, delivers community sessions at events, facilitates Oracle's JUG and Java Champions programs, and contributes to the team’s overall community development efforts. Jim has been building FOSS communities for decades at Sun and Oracle and has contributed to multiple Open Source communities.

Mala Gupta

Developer Advocate, JetBrains

Mala Gupta works as a Java Developer Advocate with JetBrains. A Java Champion, she has authored multiple books with Manning, Packt, and O’Reilly Publications. She has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and is a frequent speaker at international industry conferences. She actively supports Java certification as a path to career advancement. She co-leads Delhi JUG.

Grace Jansen

Developer Advocate, IBM

Grace is a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at IBM, working with Open Liberty, MicroProfile, and Cloud Technologies. She has been with IBM since graduating with a Degree in Biology. Grace enjoys bringing a varied perspective to her projects and using her knowledge of biological systems to simplify complex software patterns and architectures. As a developer advocate, Grace builds POC’s, demos and sample applications, and writes guides and tutorials. She is a regular presenter at international technology conferences and has authored a book on reactive systems. Grace also has a keen passion for encouraging more women into STEM and especially Technology careers.

Kuassi Mensah

Director of Product Management, Oracle

Kuassi is the Director of Product Management in the Oracle Database organization. He looks after Java applications and frameworks' connectivity to the Oracle database (JDBC, SpringBoot, and else), asynchronous and reactive DB access, Java in the database, zero downtime, multi-tenancy, turning Database tables into Hadoop and Spark data sources, and the DB Kubernetes Operator. He holds an MS CS from the Programming Institute of the University of Paris. He is a frequent speaker at Java events such as JCON, JFokus, Scale by the Bay, JavaZone, DevNexus, TDC Brazil, Java Day, as well as Oracle User groups events (UKOUG, DOAG, Sangam, BGOUG, OUGN, etc), and Oracle Cloud World. Author: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555583296.

Poonam Parhar

Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Poonam is a software engineer and author, currently working in Oracle’s Java Platform Group, where she specializes in resolving HotSpot JVM issues. With a deep passion for debugging and troubleshooting, her focus is on improving the serviceability and supportability of the JVM, particularly in solving complex Garbage Collection problems. Poonam is committed to enhancing debugging tools, making it easier to identify and resolve JVM-related challenges. Recently, she joined the Java Product Management team, where she continues to use her expertise to drive product improvements. She is also co-author of the book "Java Performance Companion" and regularly shares her knowledge and experiences with the Java community through her blog.

Adam Pocock

Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Adam Pocock is a machine learning researcher in Oracle Labs’ ML research group. He’s the lead developer of Tribuo, an open source Java ML library, the maintainer of ONNX Runtime’s Java API, and co-leads TensorFlow-Java, among other contributions to the Java ML ecosystem. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, which focused on feature/variable selection algorithms in machine learning. His PhD thesis was awarded the British Computer Society’s Distinguished Dissertation award in 2013. Since joining Oracle Labs in 2012, he’s built scalable Bayesian inference systems for GPUs in Java (a successor project of which is now available as the Sandwood probabilistic programming language, a number of production Java ML systems, and is now researching efficient transformer models for code generation.

Philip Race

Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Phil is the lead of the Client Libraries group in OpenJDK, responsible for the core Swing, Java 2D, and AWT APIs that are used to build Java desktop applications and related technologies such as accessibility and printing. He has worked in the Java client team at Sun and now Oracle for many years, with a special focus on text, imaging and image I/O, and printing and has also contributed to these areas in the OpenJFX project. He has spoken on these topics at many JavaOne conferences over the years. He has contributed to OpenJDK since the very beginning and is currently an at-large member of the OpenJDK governing board.

Kevin Rushforth

Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Kevin Rushforth is a member of the Oracle Java team and is the co-Project Lead for the OpenJFX project on OpenJDK, where the JavaFX API is developed. He has worked extensively in the 2D and 3D computer graphics industry, focusing on Java Client APIs since 1997.

Paul Sandoz

Software Architect, Oracle

Paul is the Java library architect and lead for Project Babylon.

Erin Schnabel

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat and a Java Champion with over 25 years of experience as a developer, technical leader, architect, and advocate. Known for her hands- on approach, Erin learns and teaches by coding creative projects, including “Pockets,” a command-line tool for relational data; “Monster Combat,” an app for exploring application metrics; and “Game On! Text Adventure,” a cloud-native development sandbox. She serves as Chairperson of the Commonhaus Foundation, focusing on open-source collaboration, and spends her days experimenting with Quarkus, GraalVM, and automating all the things.

Crystal Sheldon

Director, Java in Education, Oracle

Crystal has 25 years of experience in Computer Science public education, first as a high school teacher providing students with their first programming experience in Java and then as a curriculum and assessment developer with College Board. In her role with College Board, she played an essential role in making AP CS what it is today while supporting teachers and students learning foundational programming concepts in Java in preparation for the AP Computer Science A exam. She has a passion for broadening participation in computer science to include more women, persons of disabilities, and persons underrepresented in computer science. At Oracle, she is excited to find ways to bridge the learning gap for teachers and students as they move from Java 8 to the most current version of Java.

Shaun Smith

Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle

Shaun has been an active member of the Java community for over 20 years and has presented at developer events all around the world—including JavaOne! He currently leads GraalVM product and developer relations at Oracle Labs and is excited to be part of a team focused on Java and cloud. He lives in Toronto with his family, two naughty but adorable orange cats, and his collection of over ten thousand comic books.

Venkat Subramaniam

Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., an instructional professor at the University of Houston, and the creator of the dev2next conference. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book “Practices of an Agile Developer.” You can find a list of his books at https://www.agiledeveloper.com.

Dan Vega

Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom

Dan is a Java Champion & Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom. He has been developing software for the web for over 23 years and his superpower is problem-solving. Dan is a Blogger, YouTuber, Course Creator, Podcaster, and speaker. He is a lifelong learner and his passion is sharing his knowledge with the developer community. Dan lives near Cleveland, Ohio with his beautiful wife and 2 daughters. When he isn’t writing code or teaching, he enjoys spending time with his family, lifting weights, running, or reading a good book.

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