ECLIPSE - Key Persons
Agustin Benito Bethencourt Oniro Program Manager Agustín joined the Eclipse Foundation in August 2021 as Program Manager. Remoter by heart, he is based in Málaga, Spain. Agustín has been involved in different Open Source projects and organizations for +18 years. He also enjoys basketball, barbecues and travelling around the world. Follow @toscalix
Aleksandar is part of Red Hat's Eclipse team. He is Platform SWT committer, Tools PMC member and leads the Linux Tools project. He is very interested in deeper native platform integration both as runtime experience and as distribution channel. He is also interested in growing the contributors and better aligning with modern systems.
When not in front of a monitor, Anne prefers activities that involve wearing a helmet--horseback riding, skiing, and cycling. One of her favorite books is The Chicago Manual of Style, so if you need help with the nitpicking details of writing in English, she's happy to help.
Job Titles:
- Open Source Services Specialist
Boris is a long time open source enthusiast and contributor. Previously a methods and tools consultant for the industry, he joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2021 to help people and organisations adopt, understand and apply open source principles and best practices to their own projects. He is also a juggler, musician, and nature lover. He is moored in Europe.
When he's not at a computer, which is rare, Chris spends his time with his dog Winston, playing the drums, watching a Habs game or at the top of a hill snowboarding.
Dani is one of the initial Eclipse committers.He led the Platform and the JDT subprojects, represented the project in the Eclipse Planning Council, and was also a a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. He was elected by the committers to represent them in the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Dani worked at OTI and IBM Research GmbH. His interests included user interface and API design, editors, software quality and performance.
In the office, Denis spends his time in front of a Linux command prompt, helping manage the servers, networks and software that run the Eclipse websites. When not at work, Denis enjoys time with his family and friends.
Job Titles:
- Manager for Simulation and Modeling at the German Aerospace Center
Dr. Robert Hilbrich works as a manager for simulation and modeling at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin, Germany. He is a computer scientist and started his research career in the field of developing safety-critical real-time systems at the Fraunhofer research institutes FIRST and FOKUS. Since he joined the German Aerospace Center in 2015, he is responsible for the development of the traffic simulation suite Eclipse SUMO. In 2019 Robert also founded a startup, the Consultancy for Engineers GmbH, where he is employed as managing director in addition to his role at the German Aerospace Center.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS
Dr. Tom Ritter has been Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS since 2019. His main areas of interest are model-driven software engineering, the development of software tools, software development processes, infrastructures for tool integration and the consideration of quality throughout the entire development and life cycle of a system. Tom Ritter also participated in standardization activities and is co-author of books on components and services. He regularly provides his expertise in lectures and seminars as well as at conferences and workshops.
Ed Merks leads the Eclipse Modeling Framework project and co-leads the Eclipse Modeling project along with Rich Gronback from Borland. He is a coauthor of the authoritative book EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework which is nearing completion of a second edition. He is interested in all aspects of Eclipse modeling and its applications. He is well recognized for his dedication to the Eclipse community, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He is also an active blogger. He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser Univeristy. His experience in modeling technology spans 25 years.
Eric is part of the web development team! Other than working with web stuff, his other passions are mostly constituted of hockey, video games and tv shows.
Erich was the original lead of the Eclipse Java development environment. Prior to working on Eclipse he contributed to VA/Micro Edition (part of IBM's Java solution for embedded device programming). Erich is well known for his work on Design Patterns and JUnit.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Vice President of Obeo
Etienne Juliot is co-founder and vice president of Obeo, a software editor focused on Model Driven solutions. He is a senior software architect with a strong experience in IT and embedded systems architecture. He is involved in several Eclipse projects (Sirius, Acceleo, EMF Compare, SCA, UML Generators, Mylyn, ...) and is a steering committee member for PolarSys.
Finally, Etienne manages international and strategic collaborations with large companies on system engineering and enterprise architecture needs. Follow @ejuliot on Twitter.
Frederic Gurr Release Engineer Fred is a java developer by trade, based out of Cologne, Germany. Responsible for supporting Eclipse projects, focusing on build and release processes. In his spare time, Fred can be found kite surfing off the coast of the Netherlands and Spain, or building quadcopters and testing their flight capabilities. Follow @fr3dg
Frédéric Desbiens joined the Eclipse Foundation in February 2019. As the IoT and Edge Computing Program Manager, his job is to help the community innovate by bringing devices and software together. After hours, Frédéric will typically be found reading a history book, playing video games or watching Anime. He also likes going outdoors and playing sports with his friends and family.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH and VP Ecosystem Development
Gaël has been involved in Open Source for 15 years with the goal to help companies adopt and develop open source projects and collaborate better. He joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2013 to develop the ecosystem in Europe, and to support the development of Eclipse Working Groups. Outside of work, Gaël likes spending time with his family and travelling to visit beautiful places in the world.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Executive Assistant
Gesine joined the Eclipse Foundation in February 2022. In her spare time, Gesine is an avid runner, who enjoys road and trail running throughout the seasons. She loves to travel, try new recipes, entertain family and friends, and relax in her forest garden.
Gorkem Ercan is the architect for developer tools at Red Hat. Gorkem has experience working with a diverse range of technologies ranging from building IDEs to mobile phones. He is an avid contributor and supporter of open source. He is the project lead for Eclipse Thym project, and Eclipse JDT language server and a committer on various projects including Eclipse Che, Eclipse WTP Server, Eclipse JSDT, and Eclipse Theia. Gorkem is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council and he is one of the longest serving Eclipse commiters.
Job Titles:
- Contributing Member Representative
- Software Specialist at Salesforce
Gunnar Wagenknecht is a software specialist at Salesforce. In his past career he lead Open Source programs, managed engineering teams, worked on great products, and architected and managed the operation of a distributed, multi-tenant SaaS platform serving millions of transactions each day.
He also is a prolific contributor with many years of experience in the Eclipse Open Source Community where he has been awarded with the Lifetime Contribution Award.
Apart from software and computers he loves chatting about travel, fishing, DIY projects and other things that matters.
Job Titles:
- Product Marketing Manager, IoT and Edge
Hassan Jaber joined the Eclipse Foundation in March 2021, as the IoT and edge computing product marketing manager, his job is to translate ideas into successful marketing programs around very tech-savvy communities in the edge computing and IoT world. After hours, Hassan likes to spend time with his family on diverse activities (hiking, reading and traveling).
Ivar Grimstad Jakarta EE Developer Advocate Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion, JUG Leader, and a frequent speaker at International developer conferences. In his spare time, Ivar is usually busy with all sorts of outdoor sports and activities. As a Norwegian, he is born with skis on his feet and when the water is ice-free, he enjoys swimrunning in the Scandinavian archipelagoes. Follow @ivar_grimstad
Job Titles:
- Digital Marketing and Content Marketing Specialist
Jacob joined the Eclipse Foundation's marketing team in 2020, where he contributes to digital campaigns that include social media, web content, online ads, and emails. When he is't working, he enjoys playing and watching hockey, spending time outside, and planning his next trip.
Job Titles:
- European Senior Systems Administrator
Jakub joined the Eclipse Foundation in March 2021. He is a sysadmin spending most of the time in the Linux command line. In his free time he enjoys trekking in mountains.
Jay is a long time committer and a lead of the Eclipse JDT subproject. In his current role, Jay is responsible for the Eclipse Compiler, especially supporting new Java Language features. In the past, he has also contributed to the Orion and Flux Projects. Jay has been an Eclipse user since its inception.
Jeff McAffer co-led the RT Equinox project and is the Founder of Code 9. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley). Previous lives include being a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and work in distributed/parallel OO computing (Server Smalltalk, massively parallel Smalltalk, etc) as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a PhD at the University of Tokyo.
Job Titles:
- Director, Worldwide Operations
Jenn joined the Eclipse Foundation in September 2016. Away from the office, she enjoys spending time with her family, watching her girls play sports and is also a fitness enthusiast.
Job Titles:
- Strategic Foundation Board Representative
John has worked on the Eclipse and Equinox projects for the past decade in many different areas. He was the main developer on the resource model for many years, and designed the platform's concurrency infrastructure. In recent years he has focused on the Orion project, provisioning (p2), e4, and overall platform API quality. John has authored numerous articles and a book on Eclipse.
John was a principal architect for the platform infrastructure. John played a central role in the development of IBM VA/Java, VA/Micro Edition, and Eclipse. His interests are in the areas of performance, scalability, compilers, and just about anything that's hard.
Job Titles:
- Digital and Content Marketing Specialist
Justin Schmitz is a past multi-media journalist and content enthusiast who has made it his professional mission to bridge the gap between the fields of tech and communications. At home, he spends his time enjoying art, music, and everything geeky in the world of pop culture!
Job Titles:
- Senior Professional Engineer at Fujitsu Limited
- Strategic Foundation Board Representative
Kenji Kazumura is Senior Professional Engineer at Fujitsu Limited in Japan. After more than five years experience of the compiler development he has been working with Java for the enterprise mission critical systems. Now he is in charge of Fujitsu middleware products such as Interstage Application Server.
Kevin was a key contributor to the design and implementation of the Platform UI. He was previously component lead for the Platform UI, and has a long history of building user interface technology at OTI. In a past life he was the lead for the SWT team. Kevin also played a key role in the IBM VA/Java project.
Lars Vogel, vogella GmbH
Lars represents the user and adopter community of Eclipse. Lars is founder and CEO of the vogella GmbH based in Hamburg, Germany. He is an active Platform UI and PDE committer, contributor to other Eclipse projects and co-leads the e4 and Platform UI project. His interests include API and UI simplification, code clean and growing the number of committers and contributors in the project.
Job Titles:
- Manager, Research Projects
Marco is part of the Eclipse Foundation research team where he helps to turn innovations into successful open source projects. Outside of work, he enjoys skiing, spending time with family and friends and making pizza in his wood-fired oven
Job Titles:
- Open Source Community Manager
Maria Teresa joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2018. Her role is to manage the Foundation activities within European Research Projects leveraging her experience in the IoT world with the Eclipse Open Source community. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with family more than anything in the world!!
Martin is a developer for the Foundation, working with the Web team and helping develop the Eclipse platform. When not working, Martin enjoys tabletop RPGs, video games, and music (both playing and listening).
Martin was on the PMC representing the Community aspect of Eclipse and the e4 project. He is a Platform Core Resources and e4 committer, co-leading the e4 Resources work. Martin also serves on the DSDP PMC and as Target Management Project lead, and revitalized the Eclipse Architecture Council as its chair. His interests include programming languages, patterns and paradigms, optimizing development processes, skiing, hiking, and playing all sorts of musical instruments.
Matt spends his time triaging the Webmaster inbox and putting out fires. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the data center.
Job Titles:
- Committer Board Representative
Matthew Khouzam has been using Eclipse tools since the Callisto release and has been a committer on Eclipse projects for 10 years, with almost 5,000 reviews to his name. He is the product manager for Eclipse Theia, OpenVSX, Eclipse Trace Compass within Ericsson and co-lead for the Eclipse Trace Compass Incubator. Matthew is also co-lead of the CDT.cloud project. He is a technology enthusiast, especially in the field of performance engineering. In the copious amounts of free time he has left, he is a husband, a father, and enjoys cooking, biking and woodworking. He is also a budding doodler and has been co-developing a game in his remaining spare time.
Matthew has worked in academia and industry, coordinating between large and small companies as well as university research labs.
Finally, he is a great big nerd. He will gladly broach any subject if the other side brings enthusiasm.
Job Titles:
- Strategic Foundation Board Representative
Matthias is a product owner and open source enthusiast. He leads the EGit and JGit projects and contributes to Gerrit Code Review. He also worked on Spark and Kafka and recently started contributing to Gardener (https://github.com/gardener) enabling Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes clusters on a large scale. He is also a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. Matthias works as a product owner for SAP Cloud Platform and leads its git team.
He holds a PhD and diploma degree in Experimental Physics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Job Titles:
- Creative Lead
- Member of the Eclipse Marketing Team
Mehrnaz is a member of the Eclipse marketing team. With more than 10 years as a web and graphic designer, Mehrnaz has experience designing and implementing effective creative projects and services for a variety of large public and non-profit organizations. Outside of work, her hobbies include painting, photography, and antique collecting.
Job Titles:
- Director, Ecosystem Development
Michael joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2021 as Director, Ecosystem Development. In a previous life, he started his career as a software developer in the area of automotive software before he changed to the dark side of business development. Here he held various business development positions in companies like Elektrobit, Alibaba, and Alibaba Cloud, and spent 3 years as General Manager Elektrobit Automotive (Shanghai) Ltd. in China.
Mikaël is passionate for software engineering. He enjoys building products that make sense. His experience is diverse and includes things from architecture to team management. He started programming at the age of 10 with BASIC and hasn't stopped ever since.
Outside of work, Mike's passions are his family, the family cottage and hockey (as a coach, player and fan) in pretty much that order. When he's not working, or traveling for work, you will probably find him involved in one of those three things.
You can read Mike's blog at mmilinkov.wordpress.com/.
Job Titles:
- Front Web Developer
- Member of the Web Development Team
Olivier is a member of the web development team. He enjoys building web applications. His hobbies include watching hockey, playing games, and most recently got into cycling.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Community Development
Paul's responsible for the growth and well being of the projects, work groups and the diverse community of members, committers and contributors at Eclipse. Once his work day is complete, you can find him outside running, biking and cross-country skiing the vast network of trails in Gatineau Park... and consuming large post work-out snacks.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Member Services
Paul's role at the Foundation is to drive value for our members. His interests outside the Foundation are diverse, but all centre around family, friends, learning (and a bit of teaching) - all mixed with a heavy dose of travel.
Job Titles:
- Product Marketing Manager, SDV
I am a marketer with an abundance of experience covering wide fields of marketing - from CRM, content, email and digital marketing placing a strong focus on product marketing and product development. My passion is everything related to technology, innovation and sustainability in the mobility and automotive industries. My strongest skills include excellent communication, storytelling via engaging content, hosting and managing events and executing customer-first focused media strategies for brand awareness, relevancy and increased engagement. In my free time I find comfort in reading, traveling and doing yoga.
Job Titles:
- Membership Growth, Manager
Perri joined the Eclipse Foundation in May 2010. Her focus is on membership retention, management and sales, including sales of our advertising portfolio and sponsorships for our conferences. Outside of work Perri enjoys spending time with family and friends, medical research, volunteer work for organizations dealing with children with special needs, running, cooking and baking. Perri hopes to one day accomplish her long time dream of a unique day program for young adults with special needs.
Job Titles:
- Director, Research Relations
Philippe manages the Eclipse Foundation contributions to European-funded research projects. When he is traveling, Philippe enjoys photographing the places he visits, and when he isn't on the road, he is having fun with his family, riding his motorcycle or playing jazz with some good friends.
Philippe is a former PMC and JDT project lead. Prior to Eclipse, Philippe was responsible for the compiler and codeassist in IBM VA/Java and VA/Micro Edition. Philippe was a member of the expert group on compiler API (JSR199), representing IBM. His main interests are in compilation, performance, scalability and meta-level architectures.
Outside of the office, Samantha enjoys many hobbies such as music/singing, creating/trying new recipes, and riding her motorcycle. As an avid animal fan, she will always stop to pet any dog that's willing, and loves her two cats!
Sandy is the Finance Speacialist. Outside of work, Sandy enjoys travel, hockey (Go Leafs Go) and spending as much time as possible with her family, especially her grandchildren.
Sergey is part of Google's Eclipse team. He is CDT and Platform UI committer and co-leads Platform Resources. His primary areas of interest are C++ parsing, indexing, refactoring and making Eclipse faster and more responsive. He is also interested in growing the number of Platform committers and contributors and making contributing to the Eclipse Platform projects as frictionless as possible.
Serina El Salibi Virtual Event Specialist Serina has spent the majority of her career working at non-for-profit, tech-based organizations. After hours, Serina loves spending time with her growing family. She has a LOVE for food, travel, cars and surfing/scuba diving... a true thalassophile.
Job Titles:
- Senior Marketing Manager, Cloud Native Java
Shabnam joined the Eclipse Foundation in June 2019 as the Senior Marketing Manager with focus on Jakarta EE, Eclipse MicroProfile and other Cloud native java projects. Her passion is in multimedia marketing, and brand management . Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, watching anime series, hiking and reading.
Shanda Giacomoni Marketing Team Lead Shanda has spent the majority of her career working in the non-for-profit space, and has a particular interest in tech-based organizations. Outside of the office, she likes spending time with her growing family.
Job Titles:
- Program Director, Working Groups Operations
Following a successful career in Intellectual Property Management with Eclipse, Sharon has turned her attention and leadership to Eclipse Foundation Working Groups and associated programs to ensure governance compliance and operational excellence! Outside of work, Sharon's main focus continues to be Chihuahua rescue and her two adopted Chi fur babies!
Sharon is a member of the Eclipse Projects team. She manages all aspects of the Eclipse Foundation's trademark portfolio; this includes prosecution, defence, and monitoring to ensure the marks are fully protected and up to date at all times. When she is not working, she likes to spend her time enjoying the outdoors with her family.
Job Titles:
- Intellectual Property Analyst
- Member of the Eclipse IP
Shawn is a member of the Eclipse IP team. When he's not poring over code, Shawn enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar and singing, fishing, hiking, and boating at the family cottage, and cheering on his beloved Ottawa Senators.
Job Titles:
- Committer Board Representative
- Software Engineer at Red Hat
Shelley is a software engineer at Red Hat. She is a PMC member at Eclipse Adoptium and serves as project lead and committer on several Eclipse projects. She is deeply committed to create environments where everyone has opportunities to learn and grow. A great deal of her time is spent ensuring the projects she is responsible for are flourishing, which includes actively engaging new and first-time open source contributors.
Silvia joined the Eclipse Foundation in September 2020 as the Office Manager Europe. Outside of work, Silvia loves to spend time with her family and friends, likes to travel around the world, enjoys sports like running, hiking and fitness.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director Open Source at Bosch.IO
- Strategic Foundation Board Representative
Steffen Evers is director open source at Bosch.IO, where he leads the team that provides development services for open source software essential to the company and consults on strategy, community work, software management, and compliance processes in the area of OSS. For nearly 20 years, Steffen has researched, taught, and promoted open source development and supported various companies in the use of OSS to achieve their business objectives.
Job Titles:
- Manager, Accounting and Reporting
Stephanie joined the Eclipse Foundation in March 2021. Outside of work, Stephanie enjoys spending time with her two daughters, seeing friends, traveling and going to the gym.
Job Titles:
- Principal Program Manager, Azure Office of the CTO
Stephen is a principal program manager working in the Azure team at Microsoft. Prior to that he was a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Stephen has been a technical executive, a founder, a writer, a systems developer, a software construction geek, and a standards diplomat. He has worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor, working with open source for 25+ years. He blogs about open source and software business at "Once More unto the Breach", opensource.com, and on Medium.
Steve Northover is the father of SWT (the Standard Widget Toolkit). Prior to working on Eclipse, he worked on IBM Smalltalk, VA/Java, VA/Micro Edition. His interests include programming languages, API design, operating systems, user interfaces and code optimization.
As a member of the release engineer team, his leitmotif is to help the community by providing expertise/advice/support and thus unlocking their full potential. In his spare time, he likes to push the knobs on his guitar amps, metal concerts, music festivals, and enjoys sports like running.
Job Titles:
- Jakarta EE Program Manager
Tanja joined Eclipse Foundation as Jakarta EE Program Manager June 2018. Having been involved with Java and Java EE for quite some time, revitalizing Enterprise Java seems like a good challenge and a great fit for her! Outside the office, she loves spending time with her family and friends, enjoys art events, outdoor activities (even in the winter!), visiting different countries and most of all spending summers on a beach.
Tom is one of the initial committers of the Equinox project and was involved in the initial migration of the Eclipse runtime to the OSGi Framework. Currently he leads the Equinox Project, represents IBM in the Eclipse Planning Council, and is also a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. He focuses is on modularity and the OSGi Framework design and development. Tom is also a leader in the specification development process at the OSGi Alliance.
Torkild Ulvøy Resheim is a senior software engineer and part owner of Itema, a software consultancy based in Trondheim, Norway. As a contractor and consultant, he has helped companies use a wide range of Eclipse technologies for more than a decade. Most of this time has been spent on solutions for the semiconductor and marine/offshore sectors. Torkild founded the Trondheim Eclipse User Group in 2013 and has been participating in EclipseCon Europe Program Committee for the past few years. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council and on the Eclipse Science PMC.
Job Titles:
- Owner
- Senior Software Engineer
Torkild Ulvøy Resheim is a senior software engineer and part owner of Itema, a software consultancy based in Trondheim, Norway. As a contractor and consultant, he has helped companies use a wide range of Eclipse technologies for more than a decade. Most of this time has been spent on solutions for the semiconductor and marine/offshore sectors. Torkild founded the Trondheim Eclipse User Group in 2013 and has been participating in EclipseCon Europe Program Committee for the past few years. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council and on the Eclipse Science PMC.
Job Titles:
- Director of Open Source Projects
Wayne works for the Eclipse Foundation where he fills the dual roles of Director of Open Source Projects and Evangelist. He spends his days working with the many Eclipse open source project teams, learning about Eclipse technology, and making sure that everybody knows just how cool it all really is. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader.
Job Titles:
- Benz Tech Innovation GmbH
Inspired by the Inner Source movement years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation (until April 1st Daimler TSS). A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang's goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He leads MBTI's FOSS Competence Group and is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence.
In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein's birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.
Zachary is an avid learner who is fascinated by the power of technology. When he's not working, learning, or out on a walk, he enjoys exploring his many interests, such as video games, bass guitar, music, Magic: the Gathering, and listening to podcasts on various topics.
Zahra is the Membership Coordinator at Eclipse Foundation. Outside of work, Zahra loves to spend time with her friends and family, enjoys writing and traveling.