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With over a decade of experience in the Thales Naval domain Patrick is currently working as software architect in the development of Thales’ TACTICOS Combat Management System.
Started with electrical engineering research and then moved to software. Background in industrial/automation software and B2B backend integrations. Currently contributing to Thales’ TACTICOS Combat Management System.
Vlad Oprisa is a Software Developer who learned his craft during the past 15 years while working for a wide range of business domains like Telecommunications, Electronic Payment Systems, Banking, Business Intelligence, Insurance, Accounting, Cash Management, Electronic Data Interchange, IoT and more. He holds both a Bachelor and a master’s degree in computer science. During his career he covered roles like Senior Development Consultant, Software Architect, Technical Excellence Discipline Lead, Development Lead, Senior Software Engineer etc. "I am grateful for the opportunity to tackle major software quality attributes challenges for such a wide range of business use-cases and continuously find better and easier ways to improve the design and architecture.
Mihai is a backend developer who has been working with Scala and functional programming for the better part of the last 6 years, both in the startup community and within ING. He is interested in correctness-by-design, building fast, reliable and scalable backend systems.
Alexandru is a software developer from Bucharest, working at ING on payment processors. He loves Open Source, is the author of Monix, and a contributor to Cats Effect and to other libraries from the Typelevel Scala ecosystem. He’s also writing at: alexn.org
Mark Little leads the technical direction, research, and development for Red Hat JBoss Middleware.
Prior to taking over this role in 2009, Mark served as the SOA technical development manager and director of standards. Additionally, Mark was a chief architect, and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from HP, where he was Distinguished Engineer. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80s with a PhD in fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication, and transactions. Mark is also a professor at Newcastle University and Lyon University.
Simon Ritter is the Deputy CTO of Azul Systems. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.
Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition, he managed the Java Evangelism team for the core Java platform. Now at Azul, he continues to help people understand Java as well as AzulÕs JVM technologies and products. Simon has twice been awarded Java Rockstar status at JavaOne and is a Java Champion. He represents Azul on the Java SE Expert Group, OpenJDK Vulnerability Group and Adoptium Steering Committee.
Follow him on Twitter, @speakjava.
Cătălin Tudose graduated with a degree in Computer Science in 1997 in Bucharest. He also holds a PhD in this field. He has more than 20 years in the IT field and more than 15 years in the Java area and is currently acting as a Java and Web technologies expert at Luxoft Romania. Cătălin has developed 3 courses for Pluralsight on topics related to JUnit 5: “TDD with JUnit 5”, “Java BDD Fundamentals” and “Implementing a Test Pyramid Strategy in Java”. Besides the IT field and mathematics, Cătălin is interested in world culture and in soccer. He is a lifelong supporter of FC Argeş Piteşti.
I've been in IT for about 10 years, working with Java for over 7. I've been an advocate for serverless and it's benefits, wherever and whenever I could, but also when it made sense. I like using new technologies and frameworks to keep my team interested and engaged.