Tim Berglund runs a consulting firm called the August Technology Group, which provides training and development services to customers building web applications with open-source tools running on the JVM. He likes it best when these include Groovy and Grails.

His technology interests span web applications, business integration, data architecture, and software architecture, but his greatest passion is to help developers improve in their craft. He is a speaker internationally and at user groups in the United States, and helps lead IASA Denver and the Denver Open Source User Group. He is currently writing the book, Deploying Grails (to be published by O'Reilly), due out in 2010.

He lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.

James is a contractor in the St.Louis area that shares a passion for software craftsmanship and has enjoyed software development since he wrote his first program in Basic on the Tandy Color Computer 3 way back in 1988.

In addition to a passion for technology, he also has a keen interest in improving teamwork and collaboration through interactive activities to get people thinking creatively and develop stronger, richer communication channels with their stakeholders. 

David Chandler works with the Google Web Toolkit Team in Atlanta. An
electrical engineer by training, Chandler got hooked on developing
database Web applications in the days of NCSA Mosaic and has since
written Web applications professionally in a variety of languages,
including C, perl, ksh, ColdFusion, Java, JSF, and GWT. Prior to
joining Google, Chandler worked on Internet banking applications with
Intuit and launched a non-profit startup built with GWT and AppEngine.
Chandler holds a patent on a method of organizing hierarchical data in
a relational database and blogs about Java Web development at
turbomanage.wordpress.com.

Gautam Dev is a software engineer with more than 15 years experience in various industries. Gautam obtained Ph.D in physics SUNY, Stony Brook. Right now he is working on the Fast Code open source Eclipse plugin project. Details about this project can be found at
He has given a few talks in Dallas, Austin, and other cities in Texas.

Keith is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring. He is best known in the Spring community for creating Spring Web Flow. At SpringSource, Keith is the lead of the Web Application Development Products Team. His team, based in Melbourne, Florida, sustains the development of Spring MVC and Web Flow and their associated integrations, and is also responsible for future innovations in the domain of web application development frameworks.

Since the first Spring Experience in 2005, Keith, with Jay Zimmerman of NoFluffJustStuff Software Symposiums, has served as director of the popular conference series.

Keith is also the principal architect behind SpringSource’s state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical training on Spring to over 3000 students worldwide.

Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, and retail. He is particularly adept at translating business requirements into technical solutions.

Pankaj works as a Bioinformatics Application Developer in St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is enthusiastic about Linux and other open-source technologies.

Simon is a Software Developer at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital where he writes web applications with a focus on client-side development. Before joining St. Jude, Simon developed Poker and Travel web sites. 

Besides JavaScript, he enjoys writing code in as many languages as possible; preferable object-oriented, functional and dynamic languages.

Tom currently resides in the Cordova area.  He works as a .NET developer for ServiceU, a provider of web based event management, payment processing, and ticket sales solutions.

While work has taken him into the depths  of the Microsoft web stack, he still loves learning more about Java and related technologies.

Blaine has over 12 years of experience designing and developing enterprise systems across a variety of fields including retail, transportation, bioinformatics, electronic commerce, and location based services. A JBoss proponent for many years, he is a member of the Atlanta Java Users Group and the Atlanta Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. Blaine holds a BA from Mercer University, MBA from Shorter College, and is currently completing an MS in Applied Computer Science from Kennesaw State University.

Jim is Chief Architect at EnterpriseDB.  He is one of EnterpriseDB's first employees, having joined the company in May, 2005. Over several years, Jim has been responsible for key activities such as sales engineering, professional services, strategic technology solutions delivery and customer education.

Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Jim was a partner and architect at Fusion Technologies, a technology services company.  For nearly a decade, Jim developed early designs and concepts for Fusion's consulting projects and specialized in Oracle application development, Web development, and open source information architectures.

I’m slightly older than the computing industry, and have been programming since my undergraduate days. My cellphone now has more raw compute power than some of the computers I used in graduate school. It's an exciting time to be doing software!

I listen to the Java Posse and Software Engineering Radio.

Hao is cross-trained in Physiology and Biophysics (PhD from University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Computer Science (master from Cleveland State University). He started programming in C and Matlab to do digital signal processing and statistical analysis. Has programmed in Java for more than 8 years and spent most of his professional programming efforts in enterprise java web applications for various industries such as banking, fashion, and education. Has worked in major areas of web development such as enterprise search, web services, enterprise messaging, data access and persistence, and front end development. Currently working for FedEx as a full time Java developer.

Jared Richardson, co-author of Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful
Software Projects, is a speaker, consultant, and mentor. Jared has been in the industry for more than fifteen years as a consultant, developer, tester, and manager.

Chris is a senior consultant with Data Directions, Inc. in Richmond, Virginia.  He's also one of the authors of "Ask the PropellerHeads," a newspaper column and radio spot dedicated to technology.  His current interests include the Eclipse Rich Client Platform and Groovy + Grails.

Over 18 years with IBM in roles ranging from application development in NASA's Mission Control Center to technical sales.

Security Consultant, Ethical Hacker and owner of a Dev Shop.

Colin is Director of Technical sales at SpringSource. He is a co-founder of the company, and one of the original core committers on the Spring Framework project (gaining commit status in mid-2003). Since starting the company he has served in a number of roles, usually combining both technical as well as business and customer facing aspects. He is a hands-on architect with 20+ years of experience in developing commercial software, including all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Colin is co-author of 'Professional Java Development with Spring'.

Colin has had a long and varied career, including experience developing for and managing his own retail software company, other experience in the C++ shrinkwrap and enterprise software space, experience with Java since '97, and a complete focus on enterprise Java since '99.

Prior to SpringSource, Colin spent more than 4 years as architect then chief architect at a leading software incubator / VC. Colin's role was split between one part hands on architecture, design, and coding, another part mentoring and teaching best practices at the code and process level, and a final part performing technical due diligence and consulting for the VC arm. Throughout this period, Colin gained experience with and an appreciation for agile development practices as a vital part of software success.

Throughout his career, Colin's experience, wide ranging interests and general knowledge in the technology space have led him to be a resource that others have been able to draw on for advice. In general, Colin's background has left him with a deep knowledge of all it takes to successfully put out good software, at the code, process, and business level.

Along with client-facing work at SpringSource, Colin also spends significant time on Spring evangelism, having spoken on many occasions on Java EE and Spring Framework at conferences and JUGs.

Sohil Shah is the Chief Engineer of the OpenMobster, Open Source Mobile Cloud Platform. Prior to this he has worked at JBoss and Red Hat working on developing App security infrastructure, Content Management Systems, and Portal infrastructure. 

Ken Sipe is the CTO of Gradleware, Inc. (gradleware.com). With the co-founders Hans Dockter and Adam Murdoch, Ken helps companies of all sizes adopt agile practices and automate their enterprise systems enabling faster time to market and higher quality. Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems. Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker. 

Matt is the Group Leader of Research Application Development in the Research Informatics Division of Information Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital here in Memphis, TN. Matt has been developing and supporting enterprise Java applications in support of life sciences research for St. Jude since 2001. Matt is a committer to multiple open source projects and is the founding member of the Memphis/Mid-South JUG. Matt earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi, and was a graduating member of the inaugural class of the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. His current areas of interest include Groovy/Grails, cloud computing, Java concurrency, and functional programming.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. He is author of ".NET Gotchas," coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer," author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" and "Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Jesse is a 15 year software veteran, resides in Atlanta and provides development, release and configuration management expertise to IBM’s clients. When not traveling and speaking, he’s looking for the person who supposedly did the structural review for his home. Jesse is also the co-author of "Ant: The Definitive Guide."