"Yo... Ask Me Anything" - Panel of NY Senior Java Developers | Software Architecture Conference

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Abstract

Join 5 senior technologists from major enterprises in the New York area discuss their thoughts on the latest trends in Java. We'll discuss thoughts on the new release model, modules, modern garbage collectors, kotlin for the enterprise, Eclipse stewardship of JEE and even the rising complexity of the Java source language. Bring your questions for our New York panel of experts.

Speaker: Jeanne Boyarsky

Java developer and ScrumMaster

Jeanne Boyarsky is a Java developer and part time ScrumMaster. She co-authored Wiley’s OCA/OCP 8 certification books and is updating them for the Java 11. In addition to volunteering at CodeRanch, she mentors the programmers on a high school robotics team and won a mentorship award. In the last year, Jeanne has spoken at conferences including Oracle Code One, DevNexus and QCon.

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Speaker: Don Raab

Managing Director @BNYMellon, Creator of Eclipse Collections

Donald Raab is Managing Director and Instructional Coach in the Application Platform and Services team at BNY Mellon. Donald is a member of the Java Specification Request (JSR) 335 Expert Group and has presented at JavaOne, Devnexus, Devoxx US, EclipseCon, GIDS and the JVM Language Summit. He created the Eclipse Collections Java library which was originally open sourced as GS Collections in 2012 and migrated to the Eclipse Foundation in 2015.

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Speaker: Chandra Guntur

Sr. Principal Architect, Resilient Systems Engineering @BNYMellon

Chandra Guntur is a Director and Java Advocate in Resilient Systems Engineering, BNY Mellon. Chandra has been a technologist in the financial services industry since 2003 and is programming with Java since 1998. He is one of the representatives for BNY Mellon in the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. He is a Java User Group (JUG) Leader, and helps run one of the largest Java user groups, NYJavaSIG (New York Java Special Interest Group). Chandra is also responsible for running the NYJavaSIG Hands-On-Workshops (HOW), conducting code workshops and Code Katas on core Java features. He is a frequent speaker at Java meetups, user groups, and tech. conferences including Oracle CodeOne, Oracle Code NY, QCon New York, Devnexus and GIDS India.

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Speaker: Justin Lee

Principal Software Engineer @RedHat

Justin Lee is a Java Champion and Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He has been programming in Java since 1996. He has worked on virtually every level of the application stack from database drivers all the way to application servers and front end interfaces. A long time advocate of Java, he has spoken at conferences and user groups all across the US and Europe. He is an active open source community member and can be found on twitter and github as @evanchooly.

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Speaker: Sai Sharan Donthi

Assistant Vice President @CreditSuisse

Sai Sharan Donthi over the past 9 years he has worked on loan evaluation, price testing, Risk Based PnL analytics, Credit and Market risk analytical platforms as part of a Financial Technology Division in New York. Recently he has been working on Risk and Finance Reporting and Analytics platform with real time risk analytics, natural language processing, natural language generation, cross integration across multiple business intelligence platforms including rich HTML/Javascript reports, Tableau, Qlik, Oracle Business Intelligence, SAP Business Objects reporting solutions. As a passionate Java engineer, he volunteers to help organize the New York Java Special Interest Group (NYJavaSIG) monthly meetings in New York.

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Tracks

Monday, 24 June

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Hard earned lessons from names you know on scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance.
Modern CS in the Real World

Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDTs, formal methods, & probabilistic programming.
Machine Learning for Developers

Machine learning is more approachable than ever. Learn techniques and use cases with PyTorch, Keras and TensorFlow that will become foundational for moderan application developers.
Developing/Optimizing Clients for Developers

Electron, Flutter, JavaScript, GraphQL, Node/NPM. Web Workers, Wasm, WebVR, Speech/Alexia/Pipeline. More topics than room in this modern UI tech track.
Human Systems: Hacking the Org

Innovative approaches to organizational leadership and management to build unique company cultures.
Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)

Tuesday, 25 June

Microservices / Serverless (Patterns & Practices)

Evolving, observing, persisting, operating, and building modern architectures.
Modern Java Innovations

6 month cadence, cloud-native deployments, scale, Graal, Kotlin, and beyond. Learn how the role of Java as it is evolves for the next 20 years.
Data Engineering for the Bold

Explore the power of data systems & architectures
Non-Technical Skills for Technical Folks

Good engineers are great programmers. Amazing engineers are great collaborators.
Trust, Safety, & Security

Privacy, confidentiality, safety, security: Learnings from the frontlines
Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)

Wednesday, 26 June

Architecting for Success when Failure is Guaranteed

More than just building software, building deployable production ready software in the face of guaranteed failure.
21st Century Languages

Lessons learned from building languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
Building High-Performing Teams

What “high-performing team” means and how to build one effectively depends on context. This track will share different experiences of building high-performing teams in order to highlight how different contexts lead to different solutions but also what typically stays the same because we’re still dealing with humans trying to work together. How do different forces affect the building of high-performing teams.
Software Defined Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Service Meshes, & Beyond

Deploying, scaling, managing your services is undifferentiated heavy lifting. Hear stories, learn techniques, and dive deep into software infrastructure.
High-Performance Computing: Lessons from FinTech & AdTech

Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware.
Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)

Schedule

Presentation: "Yo... Ask Me Anything" - Panel of NY Senior Java Developers

Track: Modern Java Reloaded

Location: Majestic Complex, 6th fl.

Duration: 5:25pm - 6:15pm

Day of week: Thursday

Level: Intermediate

Persona: Developer, JVM

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