I am a seasoned professional in computer science, holding a Bachelor's, a Master's, and a Ph.D. in the field. With a total industry experience of 10 years, I have developed a deep expertise and understanding in various aspects of computer science. In addition to my academic experience, while being a member of Microsoft Java Engineering Group, I have been an active contributor to OpenJDK for the past 3 years. This combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills makes me a well-rounded and valuable asset in the tech community.

Daniel is a Java Developer for fifteen years now. Currently working at Oracle on Helidon project which enabled him to tinker with the coolest open source technologies. While working on Reactive Operators, Reactive Messaging and Long Running Actions for Helidon was fun, working with Loom features opens another chapter for otherwise passionate reactive devotee.

Josh (@starbuxman) has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 6 books (including O’Reilly’s “Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry” and “Reactive Spring”) and numerous best-selling video training (including “Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons” with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin, etc), a podcaster (“A Bootiful Podcast”) and a YouTuber.

Manish is a seasoned professional with over 19 years of industry experience. He has worked with various technologies including Oracle, Marklogic, MongoDB, Redis Cache, Lucene & Solr, and is currently part of the Azure Cosmos DB Engineering team. He is also the author of “Cosmos DB for MongoDB Developers” published by Apress. Additionally, he is a certified AWS & Azure Solution Architect and a PMP Professional.

Nikita is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft from Hyderabad, India. She has been at Microsoft for more than 4 years and has worked in the developer space ever since. She has worked on Azure DevOps, GitHub and is currently focussing on Azure Load Testing. A true advocate for developers, Nikita is passionate about creating products that make the lives of developers easier and more efficient.

Rory works in the Developer Relations team at Microsoft as a Principal Cloud Advocate. Cloud Advocates use their deep research skills to help professional cloud developers discover and successfully use Microsoft’s platforms. A seasoned speaker whose talks are both meaningful and humorous, Rory speaks around the world empowering developers to achieve more.

Sandra worked at some Axel Springer Companies where she learned a lot about coding and DevOps in large companies. That knowledge helped her a lot in setting up the automated infrastructure and DevOps pipeline plus the agile momentum in the StartUp she worked afterwards. In her first year at Microsoft, she helped several companies with their container, Kubernetes, DevOps, agile processes before moving 5 years ago to the cloud advocacy team where she keeps focusing on open source technologies and heavily in Java.

Sean Li is a product manager from the Java on Azure team. In his role, Sean helped to enable Spring integrations with Azure services, and bring to market Azure Spring Cloud, an Azure first-party PaaS jointly built with VMWare, to simplify development of Spring applications on Azure. Prior to Spring, Sean helped driving feature definition and customer engagements for Azure Blockchain services and Azure Database for MySQL.

I joined the Microsoft in 2015. Since then, I've evangelized and advocated for Java on Azure and the development of Cloud Native micro-services App on Azure as well as Kubernetes. For most of my technical career I have been an advocate and evangelist for numerous technologies; including Java, Cloud Native micro-services, Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. With over 10 years of experiences as a Java Evangelist, I was selected as one of the “We are professional. 100 people energizing the world” by Japanese media company NIKKEI in 2013. As part of this, I have been a board member of the Japanese Java Users Group and an Oracle Java Champion since 2016.