- name: Venkat Subramaniam email: venkats@agiledeveloper.com photo_url: https://itkonekt.com/media/2019/12/Venkat.png github: venkats twitter: venkat_s website: https://agiledeveloper.com/ description: | Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has mentored tens of 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 agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Programming Kotlin: Create Elegant, Expressive, and Performant JVM and Android Applications. Venkat is a well-recognized person in the software communities. He was once a recipient of the MicroSoft MVP award. He has received JavaOne RockStar award three years in a row and was inducted into the Java Champions program in 2013 for his efforts in motivating and inspiring software developers around the world. - name: Jeanne Boyarsky email: nyjeanne@gmail.com photo_url: https://www.selikoff.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/jeanne-headshot.jpg github: boyarsky twitter: jeanneboyarsky website: https://jeanneboyarsky.com description: | Jeanne is a Java developer and Java champion in NYC. She works as a developer for a bank in New York City and serves as a moderator on CodeRanch which is the best java discussion forum on the web. She has moderated on topics including JDBC, Testing, IDEs, Process and Performance. She is one of the leaders of javasig.com and mentors a high school robotics team in her free time. - name: Cay Horstmann email: cay@horstmann.com photo_url: https://horstmann.com/cay-pfh.jpg github: cayhorstmann twitter: cayhorstmann website: https://horstmann.com description: | I grew up in Northern Germany and attended the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, a harbor town at the Baltic sea. I received a M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I taught computer science at San Jose State University for almost thirty years and held visiting appointments at universities in Germany, Switzerland, Vietnam, and Macau. I was a “serial entrepreneur” before that was a thing, including a stint as VP and CTO of a dot com startup that went from three people in a tiny office to a public company. In my copious spare time I write books and develop online courses for beginning and professional programmers. - name: Dr Heinz M. Kabutz email: heinz@javaspecialists.eu photo_url: https://javaspecialists.eu/pics/gb/heinz2-300x300.jpg github: kabutz twitter: heinzkabutz website: https://www.javaspecialists.eu description: | Heinz is the author of The Java Specialists' Newsletter, a monthly newsletter that has been in publication since the end of 2000. In it, he explores many useful tips and tricks that have enthralled tens of thousands of enthusiastic fans for over two decades. He was one of the first Java Champions. - name: Paul Anderson photo_url: https://asgteach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PaulAnderson-300x291.png twitter: Paul_ASGTeach website: https://asgteach.com/ description: | Paul is a Java Champion and a member of the Oracle ACE Program. He is an experienced speaker, making the technical aspects of software engineering fun and understandable. He has conducted Technical Sessions and Tutorials at JavaOne, Devoxx, and NetBeans Day conferences in San Francisco, Europe, and Latin America. Paul is also the author of LiveLesson videos on JavaFX Programming and Java Reflection for Pearson Education. He has contributed articles to InformIT and is the co-author of eight textbooks on software programming. - name: Gail C. Anderson photo_url: https://asgteach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GailAnderson.png twitter: gail_asgteach website: https://asgteach.com/ description: | Gail is a Java Champion and a member of the Oracle ACE Program. She is Director of Research and founding member of the Anderson Software Group, a leading provider of training courses in Java, JavaFX, Python, Go, Modern C++, and other programming languages. Gail enjoys researching and writing about leading-edge Java technologies. Her current passion includes JavaFX with GraalVM for cross-platform mobile applications. She is the co-author of nine textbooks on software programming. Most recently, she is a contributing author to The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX 17. Gail has presented at various Java conferences and JUGS including Devoxx, DevNexus, JCrete, and Oracle Code/JavaOne worldwide. - name: Daniel Schmid github: danthe1st twitter: dan_the_1st photo_url: https://danthe1st.github.io/img/Daniel.jpg website: https://danthe1st.github.io/ description: | Daniel is a Java Developer from Austria who is also managing the Discord Java Community. - name: Marit van Dijk email: mlvandijk@gmail.com photo_url: https://maritvandijk.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-marit-van-dijk-1.jpeg github: mlvandijk twitter: MaritvanDijk77 website: https://maritvandijk.com description: | Marit is a Software Developer, a Java Champion and works as a Developer Advocate at JetBrains. She speaks at international conferences (including JavaZone, Devoxx, Voxxed Days, JSpring, JFall, JFokus and GOTO), local JUGs, podcasts and webinars, and has contributed to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).