BROADCOM - Key Persons


Bob McNees

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Manager, Spring Framework
Bob is an Engineering Manager working across several different Spring projects. I am an Engineering Manager responsible for overseeing a few teams in the Spring portfolio. I have a history using Spring as a software engineer inside of a Fortune 100 company and I still dabble around the edges in some areas of Spring. My day job and my passion are helping the Spring engineers however I can. When I'm not at work or with my family I hope I'm doing something related to soccer.

Carlton Schuyler

Job Titles:
  • Staff Solutions Architect, Software Engineer
Carlton is a veteran of product and consulting companies where he's been writing and delivering software for longer than he cares to admit. I'm a veteran of product and consulting companies where I've been writing and delivering software for longer than I care to admit. For the past four years I've been in the business of helping practitioners learn Java and Spring! I've been around the JVM since the very early days. In addition to Java, I've delivered code in JRuby, Clojure, Scala, and Kotlin. When I'm not trying to learn another programming language (or a human language, for that matter), you might find me curating my collection of translations of The Little Prince, reading a book, or getting to know the lay of the land somewhere far from home.

Chris Bono

Job Titles:
  • Staff Engineer
  • Staff Software Engineer
Chris is a staff software engineer on the Spring Team at VMware. He is focused on Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Cloud Stream Applications, and Spring for Apache Pulsar.

Corneil du Plessis

Job Titles:
  • Staff Engineer 1, Organizer of Jozi - JUG
Corneil du Plessis on Twitter Corneil du Plessis on LinkedIn Corneil du Plessis on GitHub Corneil has been a Spring user since a year after launch. He has contributed as a member of the community and spoken on Spring topics for over 15 years and is an organizer of Jozi-JUG. I'm a VMware engineer that joined the Spring Cloud Data Flow a team in early 2022. I have been a Spring user for nearly 20 years. In 1992 I launched the Johannesburg C/C++ user group and developed a C++ course to satisfy my need to teach and fill a gap in market. I have been putting Java applications into production since 1999 and I have been an organizer of Jozi-JUG since 2011 and speaking at Java / Kotlin conferences since 2015. Unlock your full potential with Spring courses from the Spring team. Copyright © 2005-2024 Broadcom. All Rights Reserved. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc.

Craig Walls

Job Titles:
  • R & D Engineer Software

Dan Vega

Job Titles:
  • Spring Developer Advocate
Hi, I'm Dan Vega. Spring Developer Advocate at @VMwareTanzu. I love to learn and share what I have learned with others. Husband & Father. #Cleveland is .

Felipe Gutierrez

Job Titles:
  • Staff Engineer
Felipe Gutierrez on Twitter Felipe Gutierrez on LinkedIn Felipe Gutierrez on GitHub Over 30 years of IT experience, during which he has developed programs for companies in multiple vertical industries, such as government, retail, healthcare, education, and banking. Book Author from Apress. Currently writing the Pro Spring Boot 3rd Edition. I've been a VMware engineer working in various teams for 11 years including: Professional Services as Consultant for Spring and RabbitMQ Technical Instructor teaching Spring and RabbitMQ, and Developer Content I've also taught workshops and breakouts sessions on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Cloud Stream at Spring One, and Devnexus. I am a book author for Apress Media with best sellers such as Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging and Spring Cloud Data Flow.

Glenn Renfro

Job Titles:
  • Staff Engineer 1, Board of Directors for Devnexus
Glenn has been a committer on Spring Projects since 2013. Glenn is active in the Java community by serving on the board of Atlanta Java Users Group / Devnexus.

Guy Barrette

Job Titles:
  • Technical Content Developer
  • Technical Content Developer at VMware Tanzu
Guy Barrette is a Technical Content Developer at VMware Tanzu, focused on creating learning content related to Tanzu. He lives in Montreal, Canada and he is a Microsoft MVP in the Azure expertise. He has been a speaker at developers' conferences like PrairieDevCon, Confoo, Microsoft TechDays and DevTeach. Guy was the leader of the Montreal .NET User Group for more than 23 years and is the Visual Studio Talk Show French podcast co-host.

Joe Moore

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Engineer, Software Consultant, XP Nerd
Joe is a passionate software engineer and Agile (XP!) practitioner with a mission to help others achieve amazing outcomes through software. My history with VMware Tanzu Labs reaches back to 2005. I'm a passionate software engineer and Agile (XP!) practitioner with a mission to help others achieve amazing outcomes through software -- almost always Spring-based software. Every project I've worked on for the past decade has used Spring! I've also pair programmed over 30,000 hours, both in person and through remote pair programming. When I'm not slinging code and learning material, I'm playing music, collecting guitars and amplifiers, petting cats, and spending as much time as possible with my incredible wife.

Jonathan Newell

Job Titles:
  • Staff Engineer II at VMware Tanzu
  • Staff Engineer II, Sr. Consultant, Cloud and Modern Applications Solutions Architect
I've been writing software since before it was cool. I have experience with most modern programing languages, web, mobile, and cloud. I love solving hard technical problems and enjoy helping other engineers learn from my mistakes. While I am an introvert my friends will tell you the moment I step up to the white board it takes 12 people and a front-end loader to get me to sit back down. When I am not building new tools or helping customers modernize their systems I can usually be found four wheeling around the mountains of Colorado and Utah. I have been involved in the Spring Community since 2004. In that time I've touched on all aspects of the Spring Framework and derivative projects. I've worked with numerous Spring Project teams and have contributed code to a number of those projects.

Josh Cummings

Job Titles:
  • Staff Engineer and Spring Security Committer
Josh has been a software engineer for over 15 years building enterprise applications across multiple industries. He has long been passionate about application security and loves opportunities to mentor and to learn from others about security awareness. When Josh isn't hacking away at code, he is either running, playing basketball, camping, or reading a Brandon Sanderson novel.

Josh Long

Job Titles:
  • Spring Developer Advocate, Open - Source Hacker, Book / Video Author and Speaker
Josh has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, an author of 6 books, a producer of best-selling video training, an open-source contributor, a podcaster, and a YouTuber. I've been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. I'm a Java Champion and author of 6 books, including: Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry Reactive Spring I've also produced best-selling video training (including Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and am an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin, etc), a podcaster (A Bootiful Podcast) and a YouTuber on "Spring Tips" and "Coffee and Software".

Mahmoud Ben Hassine

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer at VMware
  • Spring Batch Project Lead, VMware
Mahmoud is a passionate software engineer at VMware and an OSS advocate. Mahmoud is the project lead of Spring Batch. I am a software engineer at VMware, working as the project lead of Spring Batch. I am an OSS advocate and I have contributed to several open source projects. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, reading, running and playing chess!

Marco Behler

Job Titles:
  • Developer Advocate, JetBrains
Marco works as a Developer Advocate at JetBrains in Munich.

Sergi Almar

Job Titles:
  • Java and Spring Software Engineer, Spring I / O Organizer
Based in sunny Barcelona, Sergi is an experienced software developer and architect focused on JVM technologies. Sergi is the lead organizer of the Spring I/O conference. Based in beautiful Barcelona, I'm an experienced software developer and architect focused on JVM technologies. I'm also the tech Co-founder of a few IT startups and core member of javaHispano, the largest JUG for Spanish speakers. Additionally, I organize the Spring I/O conference (Barcelona, Madrid and Mexico City), the largest European conference focused on Spring Framework.

Sébastien Deleuze

Based in Lyon (France), Sébastien is a Spring Framework core committer at VMware. He led the introduction of Kotlin and GraalVM native image in Spring. WebAssembly believer since 2016, he is also Kotlin Google Developer Expert and an ex MiXiT conference staff.