Cloud Foundry Open Tour

Chris Beams is a Senior Technical Staff Member at VMware and a core Spring Framework committer. His work in enterprise application development began in 1998 and has covered a wide range of technologies, languages and frameworks. Prior to becoming a full-time Spring committer, Chris trained hundreds of students on the topics of enterprise architecture and how best to use the Spring family of projects. Chris is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.
Twitter: @cbeams

Patrick Chanezon joined VMware in 2011, to create the developer relations team, and make VMware the first choice of developers moving their apps to the cloud. Previously, he worked at Google where he managed the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team, Sun Microsystems where he worked as a software architect on the Sun Portal Server, AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and Accenture where he was a Lotus Notes guru. He has also been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API, and he co-created the ROME open source project and the OSSGTP group in France. Patrick received a M.S. in computer science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon.
Twitter: @chanezon

Martin Englund is a Staff Engineer on the Cloud Foundry platforms team, with over 20 years of experience in large scale datacenter operations, which is now being used to develop BOSH, the tool that provides end-to-end automation for cloudfoundry.com. He is a security geek at heart, is passionate about operations automation, and has the firm belief that if you are doing it by hand you are doing it wrong. He has been a contributor to a number of open source projects such as OpenSolaris & Puppet.
Twitter: @pmenglund

Jennifer Hickey is a Sr. Software Engineer with Cloud Foundry/VMware, with over a decade of experience in software engineering. Jennifer is a member of the Cloud Foundry team, specializing in developer experience and support of frameworks such as Spring, Grails, Rails, and Sinatra. She is passionate about increasing developer productivity in the cloud. Jennifer has led or contributed to a number of SpringSource projects, including Hyperic and tc Server. She has been involved in converting multiple large EJB/legacy codebases to Spring. Prior to joining SpringSource, Jennifer was a principal architect of a large-scale network management system.
Twitter: @jencompgeek

As Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource, Guillaume Laforge is the official Groovy Project Manager, and the spec lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request that standardizes the Groovy dynamic language. He is also a frequent conference speaker presenting Groovy and Grails at JavaOne, SpringOne, QCon, the Sun TechDays, and JavaPolis. Guillaume also co-authored Groovy in Action along with Dierk Koenig. Before founding G2One, which was acquired by SpringSource in late 2008, and taking the role of VP Technology, Guillaume worked for OCTO Technology, a consultancy focusing on architecture and agile methodologies. While at OCTO, Guillaume developed new offerings around Groovy and Grails for its customers.
Twitter: @glaforge

Costin Leau is an engineer with SpringSource. His interests include data access and aspect oriented programming. With significant development experience, Costin has worked on various Spring Framework features (cache abstraction, JPA, java config), led the Spring Dynamic Modules (Spring OSGi project) and the Spring-inspired, OSGi 4.2 Blueprint Service RI. Currently Costin is working in the NoSQL and Big Data area, leading the Spring integration with GemFire, Hadoop and Redis.
Twitter: @costinl

A long-time Grails user, Peter is currently a committer to the project and officially Grails Advocate at SpringSource, a division of VMware. He is also co-author of Grails in Action with Glen Smith.
Twitter: @pledbrook

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate. Josh is the lead author on Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly's "Getting Started with Spring Roo," and Manning's "Cloud Foundry in Action." and a SpringSource committer and contributor. When he's not hacking on code for (Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring MVC, Activiti, and much more), he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh has been a speaker at numerous conferences, worldwide, including JFokus, JAX, SpringOne2GX, OSCON, JavaZone, Geecon, Java2Days, Vaadin and Mongo Dev Days, and numerous others. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems. He blogs at springsource.org, blog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.
Twitter: @starbuxman

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry.com and works on cloud technology. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.
Twitter: @crichardson

Oleg is a Sr. Software Engineer with SpringSource/VMWare and a core developer of Spring Integration framework. He has 16+ years of experience in software engineering across multiple disciplines including software architecture and design, consulting, business analysis and application development. After starting his career in the world of COBOL & CICS, Oleg has been focusing on professional Java and Java EE development since 1999. Since 2004 he has been heavily involved in using several open source technologies and platforms with Spring Framework at the forefront, while working on a number of projects around the world and spanning industries such as Telecommunication, Banking, Law Enforcement, US DOD and others. You can regularly spot Oleg on the Spring Forums contributing to a number of topics. Native of Kiev, Ukraine and now a resident of the Philadelphia area, Oleg enjoys windsurfing, scuba diving, snowboarding, hockey and traveling when he can find some spare time.
Twitter: @z_oleg