Brian Sletten
Forward Leaning Software Engineer
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on using and evangelizing forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a security consultant, a mentor, a team lead, an author and a trainer and operates in all of those roles as needed. His experience has spanned the online game, defense, finance, academic, hospitality, retail and commercial domains. He ..
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Matt Raible
Sr. UI Architect and Creator of AppFuse
Matt Raible has been building web applications for most of his adult life. He started tinkering with the web before Netscape 1.0 was even released. For the last 13 years, Matt has helped companies adopt open source technologies (Spring, Hibernate, Apache, Struts, Tapestry, Grails) and use them effectively. Matt has been a speaker at many conferences worldwide, including ApacheCon, JavaZone, Colorado ..
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Craig Walls
Author of Spring in Action
Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 17 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning) and Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at loca..
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Arun Gupta
Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist @ Oracle
Arun Gupta is a Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 14 years of experience in the software industry working in various technologies, Java(TM) platform, and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works very closely to create and foster the community around Java EE & GlassFish. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other compa..
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Andrew Wirick
Senior Developer & Trainer at appendTo - The jQuery Company
Andrew Wirick is a Senior Trainer and Developer for appendTo, a jQuery focused training, consulting, and support company. Andrew spends much of his time traveling the country teaching jQuery fundamentals through advanced topics with a specific focus on enterprise developers and designers. Andrew has years of enterprise specific jQuery experience. He has become passionate about open source and jQuery and has become a ..
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