Hendrik Ebbers is a Java champion, a member of JSR expert groups and a JavaOne rockstar. He has achieved all this through his passion for open source and communities. Hendrik is the founder and leader of the Java user group Dortmund and gives talks and presentations at conferences and selected user groups worldwide. Hendrik is a member of the Jakarta EE Working Group (WG) and the Adoptium WG. In addition, Hendrik Ebbers is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation.
Next to Eclipse-related projects, Hendrik also contributes to other open source software (OSS). For example, he is a core committer of the Hedera Hashgraph, the only open source public ledger written in Java. He helps Hedera and Swirlds Labs develop secure, fast, and reliable components using open source standards and well-known workflows.
George Adams is a Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Java Champion and Steering Committee chair at Eclipse Adoptium. Since co-founding AdoptOpenJDK in 2016 he has been leading the community outreach efforts and was heavily involved in moving the project to the Eclipse Foundation. George also contributes to both the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation where he is a core collaborator and plays an active role in several of the workgroups.
Shelley is a Senior Principal 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 creating 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.
Stewart is a project lead on several projects at Adoptium and is the lead for security development and infrastructure at the Adoptium project, and infrastructure work at Node.js where he is also a committer as well as being closely involved with the build side of the Temurin binaries.. He previously worked at IBM on various projects before starting to work on what is now Adoptium. He has a commitment to working in the open and has extensive knowledge of cross platform activities and automation as is active in ensuring that our documentation is suitable for new members who wish to join and contribute to the project as well as sharing what we’re doing. He is also interested in new platforms and technologies and whether they will be useful to the projects he works on.
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Tim is an original member of the Adoptium team, and member of the Adoptium Steering Committee and Project Management Committee. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Red Hat Distinguished Engineer, representing the company on Java standards and strategy groups worldwide. He is interested in growing sustainable and healthy communities, secure engineering, and software architecture.
Lan Xia is the Quality Automation Architect at IBM Runtime Technologies. She is an active committer and contributor for the open source projects – Eclipse OpenJ9 and Eclipse AQAvit, where she also serves on Adoptium Steering committee and Adoptium Project Management Committee member. And she champions the creation of transformative solutions such as the Test Results Summary Service and AQA Test Pipelines, integrating AI to enhance and expedite the current development practices.
Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.
Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology; he has spent time working both in Java development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition, he managed the Java Evangelism team for the core Java platform, Java for client applications and embedded Java.
Now at Azul, he continues to help people understand Java as well as Azul's JVM technologies and products. Simon has been awarded Java Rockstar status at JavaOne and is a Java Champion.
He currently represents Azul on the JCP Executive Committee and on the Expert Group of JSR 379, Java SE 9.