Charlie Hunt, Architect of Performance Engineering at Salesforce.com
Charlie Hunt is the Architect of Performance Engineering at Salesforce.com and the lead author of the recently released Java Performance book. Prior to joining Salesforce.com, he was the Java HotSpot VM Performance Architect at Oracle and Sun Microsystems. He wrote his first Java application in 1998 and joined Sun Microsystems, Inc. in 1999 as a Senior Java Architect. He has been working on improving application and systems performance for over 20 years. He is a regular speaker on the subject of Java performance at many world-wide conferences including the JavaOne Conference. Charlie holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Iowa State University.