JavaOne 2026 Speaker

Description

Senior Architect for the Java Virtual Machine (Oracle)

Continuously responsible for Java technology at Sun and then Oracle from 1997. Wide contributions to functionality and performance of the Java/JDK/JVM stack, touching everything from hardware architecture to managed runtimes to code generators to libraries to programming languages.

Lead or key for Project Panama, Project Valhalla, Project Leyden, Project Babylon, java.lang.invoke (Method Handles + indy), Vector API, Inner Classes (1.1), HotSpot on SPARC, Unsafe API, (future) Parametric VM. Java fanatic, C++ inmate, Lisp refugee, C* designer (Thinking Machines). Degrees in mathematics and English literature.