ECLIPSE FOUNDATION AISBL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Contributing Member Representative
- Member and Contributor
Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ZettaScale Technology.
At ZettaScale he is working with a world-class team to change the landscape of distributed computing. Angelo and the ZettaScale team are working hard to bring to every connected human and machine the unconstrained freedom to communicate, compute, and store - anywhere, at any scale, efficiently and securely.
Angelo has been an active member and contributor in the Open Source community for three decades! He was the single-handed author of the first open source real-time Java compiler jRate. He has contributed the monad/functors Apero library to OCaml and implemented the real-time extensions to the TAO ORB in early 2000. Angelo single-handedly wrote SimD, an innovative OMG DDS C++ API that eventually was adopted as the new standard DDS mapping for C++. He has contributed a Scala API for DDS and a Scala library of distributed algorithms called Dada. In recent years, Angelo started, and still leads, the Eclipse Zenoh project. He co-wrote the first implementation in OCaml and heavily contributed to the early days of the Rust rewrite.
In addition, to the Open Source contributions, Angelo is recognised as a world's top expert in edge/fog computing and a well-known researcher in the area of high-performance and large-scale distributed systems. Angelo has over 100 publications in referred journals, conferences, workshops, and magazines. Angelo has co-authored over ten international standards.
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:
- Senior Manager, Event Operations and Strategy
Aurélie is leading the Eclipse Foundation's Events team. Over the last 10 years, she has developed a deep knowledge of event management and marketing in the software and IT world, as she has managed event projects for major companies such as IBM, Salesforce, Adobe, Red Hat, Wipro, and many more. She has a very multi-cultural mindset as she has travelled the world and lived abroad for many years across three different continents. She loves challenges and her mantra is: If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.
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.
Job Titles:
- Chief Strategy Officer at Huawei
Bryan Che is Chief Strategy Officer at Huawei. There, he leads Huawei's vision and strategy across its overall businesses and portfolio, which spans mobile and consumer electronics, telecommunications, enterprise IT, and cloud.
Carmen joined the Eclipse Foundation in October 2022 as a Community Manager having a background in project, operations, and financial management. She also volunteers as group manager and mentor at Step4ward, a mentoring program for women starting in the tech world. During her free time, she enjoys traveling to visit her family and exploring new places, cooking, and reading.
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.
When not working, Christopher spends his time with his kids, rebuilding motorcycles, and car bodywork/paint.
Job Titles:
- Head of Outreach and Engagement
- Head of Product Marketing for the Eclipse Foundation
As the head of product marketing for the Eclipse Foundation, Clark is the guy to talk to if you are looking for ways to raise awareness for your project. Prior to joining the Foundation, for more than 25 years Clark worked within the technology industry in a broad range of marketing, product management, sales and executive roles, many of which were closely aligned with the open source industry. In his spare time, Clark likes spending time with his family, exploring the world, playing golf, and hiking in the beautiful mountains of Utah.
David joined the Eclipse Foundation in January 2023, bringing experience in industry and research projects in IoT, smart cities, or environment. David enjoys spending time in the mountains, traveling, and practicing any kind of sport.
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:
- Vice President, Program Development
Dennis has been involved with open source since 2007 when Oracle made its initial contribution to the Eclipse Foundation and joined as a strategic member. He served on the Eclipse Foundation board for over 10 years. He resides in Ottawa where he enjoys an active lifestyle playing golf, hockey and spending time at the lake.
Dr. Ian Robinson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM Application Platform, which includes IBM's Java, Liberty and WebSphere technologies. He has more than 30 years' experience working in distributed enterprise computing across product development, open standards, and open source. Ian is a steering committee member of the Jakarta EE WG and has IBM team members participating in numerous Eclipse runtime and tools projects including MicroProfile, Adoptium, OpenJ9, Equinox, OSGi and Eclipse JDT.
Job Titles:
- Contributing Member Representative
- Senior Manager at Vector Informatik GmbH
Dr. Johannes Matheis is a Senior Manager at Vector Informatik GmbH, a company supporting manufacturers and suppliers in the automotive and related industries with tools, software, and services for developing embedded systems. He currently leads the software development group of PREEvision. Johannes graduated with a diploma in Computer Science in 2004, and while working as a developer at the start-up Aquintos he subsequently completed his PhD at KIT (Karlsruher Institute for Technology). His areas of special interest include "model-based software engineering" and software development in Java. Since September 2021 he has served as a steering committee member on the Eclipse IDE WG.
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.
Job Titles:
- Ambassador for Open and Inner
Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz Group AG and its IT subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation (MBTI). A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang's goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He has a passion for communities, leads MBTI's Open Source Program Office, 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.
Job Titles:
- Board Representative
- Release Engineer for Eclipse SimRel
Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, macromodeling. He is a coauthor of the authoritative book EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been an elected member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors for the past fifteen years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as Top Newcomer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the Eclipse community since 2002, having posted more than 32,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is currently living in Switzerland and has learned to speak German. His experience in modeling technology spans more than thirty years.
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.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, European Public Policy
Enzo is responsible for the advocacy activities of Eclipse Foundation in Europe. To do so, he is interacting with policy makers and representatives from civil society organizations, research, and industry.
Before joining Eclipse Foundation, Enzo alternated between private and public sector organizations working on international relations, trade policy, and digital policy, including open source. Enzo speaks 5 languages, enjoys cooking, and is a cat person.
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.
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.
Job Titles:
- Content & Digital Marketing Specialist
Federica is a creativity-driven person with a passion for marketing and tech. She loves to match technology and empathy to craft meaningful stories that bring value to people. Outside of work you can see her learning digital art, coding, or taking long walks.
Job Titles:
- Open Source Services Team Lead
Florent has French and Canadian engineering degrees, and has been involved (both personally and professionally) in the FLOSS community since 1999. Professionally, Florent has worked for nearly 20 years in a consulting company, first as a software quality consultant, then as an Open Source advisor for large companies, helping them with governance, licensing, Innersource, as well as change management. Today, as Open Source Services Team Lead, he's helping (new) Eclipse members and projects better understand, manage and master Open Source. On his personal side, he's an administrator and board member at LinuxFr.org (reference french-speaking, community driven website about Free and Open Source software).
Job Titles:
- Manager of Ecosystem Development
Residing in Finland, Francisco assumed the position of Manager of Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation in 2024. He has expertise in IT engineering and business development. Outside of work, he cherishes family moments, takes leisurely walks with his dog, plays the guitar, explores creative pursuits such as painting, and enjoys cross-country skiing.
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
Job Titles:
- Program Manager - Embedded, IoT, and Edge Computing
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:
- Chief Membership Officer and Managing Director, Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH
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.
Job Titles:
- Contributing Member Representative
- Member of JSR
Hendrik Ebbers is a Java Champion, a member of JSR expert groups, and JavaOne Rockstar. He is the founder and leader of the Java User Group Dortmund and gives talks and presentations in user groups and at conferences worldwide. Hendrik is a member of the Jakarta WG and the Adoptium WG. In 2022 Hendrik founded OpenElements to positively impact open source software and the open source community. The main goal of OpenElements is to strengthen open collaboration. For Hendrik, this includes helping companies to use and introduce more OSS by supporting them to set up an open source programming office (OSPO) or providing custom consulting for open source projects like Eclipse Adoptium. Next to Eclipse-related projects, Hendrik contributes to other OSS. He is a core committer of the Hedera Hashgraph, the only open source public ledger written in Java. Here, Hendrik helps Hedera and SwirldsLabs create secure, fast, and reliable components using open source standards, components, and well-known workflows.
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:
- Marketing Campaign Manager
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 isn'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.
James Eggleston works for the European Space Agency, at the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany. He is the Head of Data Systems Infrastructure Section in the Mission Operations Data Systems Division.
James' section is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of Ground Data Systems infrastructure for Mission Operations, which includes software for Spacecraft Monitoring and Control, Mission Planning, Data Analytics and Distribution, Mission Simulation and Mission Preparation, as well as supporting the processes and tooling required to create and deliver the solutions for internal customers and ESA member states. The current tool stack involves the use of many open-source products, including Eclipse's projects such as RCP, RAP, EMF, XText, Sirius, and others.
Job Titles:
- Eclipse Dataspace Program Manager
Javier has been involved in innovation for over 16 years, touching upon several topics such as IoT, cellular networks, energy, decarbonisation, and sovereign data sharing. As part of this endeavour, open source and standardisation emerged always as the way forward. Outside the work place, Javier is usually spending time with his family, and is always keen on practising and discussing sports of any kind.
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:
- Program Manager - Cloud Development Tools and Open VSX
John is part of the Community Development team at Eclipse working closely with the Cloud DevTools and Open Research working groups. He also spends time volunteering with the People Not Property project in North Carolina. Outside of work John enjoys hiking, swimming, gardening and a good practical joke.
Juan joined the Eclipse Foundation in July 2023 as Oniro Program Manager. He started his career as a researcher in the field of wireless communications and IoT applied to embedded systems. His path evolved from developer to manager in domains like smart home, smart cities, and smart energy, combining massive device deployment and data collection to deliver consumer focused services. He is based in the north of Spain, enjoys spending his free time with his family, hiking/running through the mountains and beaches surrounding his hometown, and reading about innovation.
Job Titles:
- Senior Professional Engineer at Fujitsu Limited
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.
Maira joined Eclipse Foundation in February 2023. Her passion is graphic designing, and she loves to explore and learn new things everyday. In her free time, she loves painting and doing arts and crafts projects; art in any form inspires Maira. Traveling with her family makes her happy!
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Project Manager
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:
- Eclipse Project Community Manager
Maria-Teresa Delgado Eclipse Project 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!! Follow @mtdelgado
Mario joined the Eclipse foundation in March 2023. He is passionate about Verification, and enjoys catching the bugs in the designs he works with. He is also interested in open-source projects that are related to home domotics.
Job Titles:
- Technical Program Manager
Marta has engaged in various open-source projects for 20 years. She holds a Ph.D. in network security and has developed embedded software (including a Linux kernel port to a new architcture) and tooling. At the same time, for her, communication is at least as crucial as the development itself. Because of this, she is currently a frequent speaker at various open-source conferences. In her free time, Marta hikes in the mountains, writes, reads all types of books, and takes care of her garden.
Job Titles:
- Software Developer
- Developer for the Foundation
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).
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:
- 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:
- Vice President, 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 user-centered software and solutions. His experience is diverse and includes things from architecture to team management. He started programming at the age of 8 in ST Basic and hasn't stopped ever since (he changed language though). His constant questioning of Trust has lead him to its current position.
You can read Mikaël's blog at mikael.barbero.tech
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:
- Automotive Process Engineer
Monica-Daniela "Dana" Vede Automotive Process Engineer Dana is passionate about Software and Innovation. She has worked in the automotive industry for over 20 years, where she experienced all the SW related roles of a project. Outside of work, Dana enjoys music, photography, travel, hiking, riding motorcycles, reading, and laughing. She'll always stop to pet a cat, dog or horse. She also takes a high interest in mental health topics and any related techniques and mechanisms, and is keen on further improving herself and helping others through her knowledge and experiences.
Olga Timakova Conference Coordinator Olga is a Conference Coordinator and a member of the Marketing team. Outside of work, Olga enjoys traveling with her family, exploring beautiful places in the world, sports, and fashion.
Job Titles:
- Front End 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.
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:
- Open Source Software Release Engineer
Pawel Stankiewicz Open Source Software Release Engineer Paweł is an IT technology enthusiast, and has been working in Operations and Devops for a long time for different companies. As a natural consequence, remote working became part of the job and he's been trying to make that process better and more efficient while appreciating "Anywhere Operations", and gaining knowledge of new technologies and how developers use them. To balance limited physical activity at his keyboard, he enjoys riding his bike almost every day, especially if they're on interesting routes. Outside of work, he likes spending time with his family and playing with low level electronics.
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 Programs
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.
Job Titles:
- Open Source Compliance Engineer
Rahul works as an open source license compliance engineer with the Eclipse Foundation. He likes to spend his free time with family or friends, enjoying a variety of food items.
Rosaria is a computer scientist and part of the Eclipse Foundation research team. Passionate about technology, she joined the community to help spread "open source" best practices and assist in putting them in place. She is very curious about the world and loves nature. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and learning about new cultures, as well as playing and trying different sports.
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 Specialist. Outside of work, Sandy enjoys travel, hockey (Go Leafs Go) and spending as much time as possible with her family, especially her grandchildren.
Sara joined the Eclipse Foundation in October 2022 as SDV Program Manager. She started her career as a researcher in the field of plasma physics, but quickly changed her mind and moved to the Automotive world where she worked as a developer for ADAS functions. After a few years of coding, Sara discovered her interest for managing people and projects, and moved to team and group leading in the field of Intelligent Mobility. After 12+ years in the US and Germany, she finally found her way back to Italy where she enjoys mountain biking and climbing.
Sarah Novotny has long been an Open Source champion in projects such as Kubernetes, NGINX and MySQL. She is part of the Microsoft Azure Office of the CTO, sits on the Linux Foundation Board of Directors, previously led an Open Source Strategy group at Google and ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name.
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, Industry Collaborations Operations
Following a successful career as the Intellectual Property Manager for the Foundation and part of the Eclipse IP Advisory Committee, Sharon has turned her attention and leadership to Eclipse Foundation Industry Collaborations 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:
- 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:
- Director of Research at CEA
Sébastien Gérard is director of research at CEA and he is leading the LISE laboratory (Laboratory of Model Driven Engineering for Embedded Systems) at CEA LIST. Working on research issues related to complex and critical system and software design for more than 15 years, his research interests include correct-by-construction specification and design of complex systems, model-based engineering of complex systems, and visual modeling language engineering. He is the CEA representative at Object Management Group (OMG) for more than 15 years. In particular, he is the chair of the MARTE standardization task force. He is also leading the open source project, Papyrus, the UML modeling tools of Eclipse.
In 1995, he has a diploma in mechanics and aeronautics from the ENSMA high-school, in 2000 he obtained a PhD diploma in Computer Science from the Evry university and in 2013 he got his "habilitation à diriger des recherches" diploma in the domain of computer science from the Orsay Univiersity.
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:
- Eclipse Foundation As Jakarta EE Program Manager
- 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.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Marketing and Community Programs at the Eclipse Foundation
- VP Community & Outreach
Thabang is the Vice President, Marketing and Community Programs at the Eclipse Foundation. He is responsible for global marketing and program management for our working groups and industry collaborations. Outside of work, you can find Thabang anywhere his family is - which is usually a hockey arena. You can learn more about Thabang at thabang.
Job Titles:
- Eclipse IDE Program Manager
Thomas joined the Eclipse Foundation in February 2024 as the Eclipse IDE Program Manager. He was a diligent practitioner of classical music throughout his childhood, playing the bassoon in symphonic orchestras, but ultimately pivoted due to his passion for software development. Today, he enjoys taking care of his three children, and inviting everyone he meets to come for a run/go on trail runs with him...
Thomas is passionate about Open Source development and has been a long time contributor to various Open Source projects. Since joining the Eclipse Foundation in 2023, he helps in building tools and processes to strengthen the software supply chain security of the Foundation's projects.
Théodore has been working with Drupal for more than 12 years and has joined the Eclipse Foundation to help improve the various websites managed for the community. He enjoys spending time with his family and eating delicious food.
Job Titles:
- Open Source Software Engineer
Tiago has been staring at computers for most of his life, wondering how every little thing works. With a passion for open-source and a mission for security, he joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2023 to make a difference. His cat is named after an operating system, but he'll tell you he's a dog person.
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.
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.
Job Titles:
- Membership Coordinator
- Membership Coordinator at Eclipse Foundation
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.