Speakers
Adam Bien
Java Champion Adam Bien (http://blog.adam-bien.com) is a self-employed consultant, lecturer, software architect, developer, and author in the enterprise Java sector who implements Java technology on a large scale. He is also the author of several books and articles on Java and Java EE technology, as well as distributed Java programming.
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Adrian Kosmaczewski
Adrian Kosmaczewski has been writing software for the past 20 years. He started working professionally in 1996, riding the first and second waves of the web, right from the inside.
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Alexander Schulze
Schulze Alexander is a software developer and IT Consultant for more than 20 years. His experience is based on the realization of multiple international software projects. He is trainer for IT specialists and Certified Scrum Master.
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Alison Butterill
Alison is the Application Development Offering Manager for i5/OS and works in the Power Systems Team. She is an IBM Certified Consulting I/T Specialist; certified in Application Development, WebSphere and System i.
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Alistair Cockburn
Dr. Alistair Cockburn was voted one of the “The All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes” in 2007 for his pioneering work in understanding use cases and for co-creating the agile software development movement. He is an internationally renowned IT strategist, expert on agile development, use cases, process design, project management, and object-oriented design, author of the Crystal agile methodologies, three Jolt-awarded books on software development, the co-author of the Agile Manifesto and the project management Declaration of Interdependence. He is known for his lively presentations and interactive workshops. His articles, talks, poems and blog are online at http://alistair.cockburn.us.
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Anders Bratland
Anders Bratland är en av grundarna till expertkonsultföretaget Devrex där han arbetar som konsult och utbildare med fokus på .Net.
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Anders Janmyr
Anders Janmyr is a developer, architect, speaker, and writer.
He has worked in many different domains, from databases and servers to mobile phones and robots, and has experience with small and large scale architectures.
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Anders Karlsen
Anders is a solutions architect working for Steria Norway with more than ten years of Java project experience. Anders is happiest when he can able to make simple and understandable solutions to complex problems.
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Andrew Lombardi
Andrew Lombardi is one of a new breed of businessmen: the enlightened entrepreneur. He has been writing code since he was a 5-year old, sitting at his dad’s knee at their Apple II computer.
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Andy Gilbert
Andy has worked for Sun/Oracle for 10 years selling Java into embedded systems. Initially focused on selling into the mobile space to the likes of Nokia and Sony Ericsson he has recently been focused on Real-Time Java and Java SE in M2M and Retail.
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Angelika Langer
Angelika Langer works as an independent trainer with a course curriculum of challenging Java and C++
workshops.
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Anna Herting
Anna Herting är teknisk projektledare och konsult på Agero. Hon har drygt 10 års erfarenhet av utvecklingsprojekt hos ett antal större kunder inom till synes väl åtskilda verksamhetsområden som bank, retail och läkemedel.
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Arne Åhlander
Arne Åhlander is a Senior Consultant using Agile and Lean methodologies to improve product development and management for small and large software organizations.
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Ben Evans
Ben has been a professional developer and Open Source enthusiast since the late 90s. He has delivered world-class projects for banks, media companies and charities in that time, and currently works as an architect, lead developer and in-house Java expert at one of the world’s leading financial institutions.
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Chris Hedgate
With his values and principles grounded in agile software development,
Chris Hedgate guides organizations, teams and individuals towards
better ways of developing high quality software.
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Claudia Gillrath M.A.
Claudia is a specialist in German studies and management assistent. She has well founded experience as information-broker and personal assistant for several companies. Since spring 2010 she supports the jWebSocket team by research, documentation and publications. She is responsible for coordination, event organization as well as for administrative duties and she assists the team at international conferences.
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Claus Ibsen
Claus Ibsen is a software engineer and integration specialists from FuseSource (fusesource.com/).
Claus is project lead on the open source integration framework Apache Camel (camel.apache.org)
and co-author of the "Camel in Action" book (www.manning.com/ibsen).
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David Harvey
David has over twenty years experience in software – as a developer, manager, technical architect, CTO, coach, trainer and consultant. In the 1990s he helped numerous organizations adopt best practices in object-oriented design and implementation: in investment banks in the 2000s he was responsible for defining, designing and implementing large-scale infrastructure for complex and changing businesses.
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David Starr
David Starr is a technical instructor and curriculum lead with Pluralsight where he focuses on the Visual Studio ALM platform, agile software development, and patterns and practices in .NET.
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David Walker
David Walker is an Senior Application Development Manager with Microsoft. He has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant.
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Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford discovered that hidden deep inside of JavaScript there is a powerful and elegant programming language. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm Ltd and Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder of two startups. He is currently an architect at Yahoo!
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Emily Bache
Emily Bache is an independent consultant and coach, specializing in agile engineering practices. A frequent speaker at international conferences like XP2011 and Agile Testing Days, Emily is known for her enthusiasm for Test Driven Development, Clean Code, and Text-Based Testing. Emily is based in Göteborg, Sweden.
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Emmanuel Gaillot
Emmanuel works as a team coach, (extreme) programmer, facilitator, trainer and systems jiggler. He helps software makers to be better at, prouder of, and happier about the work they produce.
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Erik Lundh
ERIK LUNDH has more than 25 years experience in software development. Erik has worked with mature innovation firms and start-ups, from small to large organizations such as Ericsson and ABB.
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Fabrice Marguerie
Fabrice Marguerie is a software architect expert in .NET. He does consulting for major companies and startups in France.
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Fredrik Öhrström
Fredrik Öhrström has been developing the JRockit and Hotspot
JVM primarily within the areas of code generation and runtime.
He has also spent a significant amount of time with JSR292 and
the support for dynamic language on the JVM. He is now working
in the group that develops and evolves the Java language.
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Geoff Bache
Geoff Bache is an experienced software developer and works for
Jeppesen Systems (part of the Boeing Group) in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Geoff has a particular interest in agile methodologies, and has
pioneered the use of automated system acceptance tests in his
organization.
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Gojko Adzic
Gojko Adzic got bitten by the specification-by-example bug five years ago. Since then, he has helped
numerous teams implement these practices, written three books on the subject and contributed to
several opensource projects for specification by example.
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Hamlet D'Arcy
Hamlet D'Arcy has been writing software for over a decade, and has spent considerable time coding in C++, Java, and Groovy.
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Henrik Andersson
Henrik Andersson is consultant and founder of House of Test, consultancy and outsourcing based in Sweden and China.
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Henrik Berglund
Henrik has 17 years of professional experience developing software. He has been working as a
developer, technical lead, architect, trainer and coach.
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Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg is an agile & lean coach at Crisp in Stockholm. He enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of software development and is passionate about building excellent software and excellent teams. Henrik is author of the popular books "Scrum and XP from the Trenches" as well as "Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both"
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Henrik Ståhl
Henrik is Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle and has worked in the industry for more than 20 years in various roles including support, network engineering, systems development, IT security, performance engineering and for the last six years with product strategy. After the Oracle acquisition of Sun, he runs a group responsible for product strategy for Java SE, JRockit, Exalogic and other Oracle products.
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Ivar Nilsen
Ivar is a systems developer with five years of programming experience. He has been working as a consultant at Steria Norway for 2 years. He is addicted to flow and is constantly looking for ways to improve his workhabits.
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Jason Ayers
With 20 years working with Smalltalk and Agile techniques, Jason currently looks after the Smalltalk business in Europe and Africa for Cincom.
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Jeff Genender
Jeff Genender is a Java Champion and Java Open Source consultant specializing in SOA and enterprise service implementations.
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Johan Jonasson
Johan Jonasson is a senior test specialist at House of Test, a testing services company based in southern Sweden.
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Johan Sanneblad
Dr Johan Sanneblad works as a mobile solution specialist at HiQ in Göteborg and has the past years helped clients such as Saab, Skype, Sony Ericsson and Telia develop numerous mobile applications.
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Johannes Brodvall
Johannes Brodwall is a software developer, architect and agile coach who works as chief scientist.
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John T Davies
John Davies is co-founder and CTO of Incept5. Incept5 are intimately involved in implementing Visa's new capabilities and initiatives around the payments world.
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Jonas Hermansson
Jonas is working as a consultant and has been in quality assurance and testing since 1994 and specializes on test organizations, test process and supporting tools. He has worked as a scrum master, test leader, test manager, teacher, agile mentor and automation specialist. The board seats in Swedish DSDM Consortium and the Swedish Association for Software Testing (SAST) proves his strong interest for agile and testing. Jonas is also Founder of Sweden's largest non profit online resource for testing, TestZonen.se
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Josh Devins
Josh is a Software Architect working in Nokia's Location services unit in Berlin, Germany.
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Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen Appelo is a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.
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Kirk Pepperdine
Kirk is a principle consultant for Kodewerk where he has focused on performance tuning. Kirk has been involved with object technologies and performance for almost 20 years. In addition to being a co-author of ANT Developers Handbook, he contributes to www.javaperformancetuning.com and is an editor for TSS www.theserverside.com.
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Lieke Arends
Lieke Arends has always had a particular interest in Internet development and follows the movements of the market closely. Lieke was undergraduate student Political Science at Boston College and Sorbonne IV in Paris. After working as an analyst in Colombian and Mexico she has been awarded a Masters degree at the University of Amsterdam. For Ajax.org she focuses on business development and communication.
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Manfred Steyer
Manfred is responsible for the specialist division “Software-Engineering” at the university of applied science CAMPUS 02 (www.campus02.at) in Graz (Austria). Furthermore, he acts as a free-lance trainer and consultant for IT-Visions (www.it-visions.de). Manfred writes for Microsoft Press, entwickler.press and the German dot.net-magazine. He also regularly speaks at conferences about software development. His blog can be found at www.softwarearchitekt.at.
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Marcus Ahnve
Marcus Ahnve is a Senior Consultant at Valtech, a global IT consultancy. He is
a agile coach and developer helping software development organizations.
Marcus experience in agile software development dates back to 1996 and his
first project which was done in Smalltalk. In 2001 he started doing XP
development and has since then explored new ways of making development more effective, economical and fun. Marcus is one of the founders of the community conference on agile methods Agila Sverige held yearly in Stockholm.
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Martijn Verburg
Martijn is a Java/JEE and open source consultant who is passionate about software craftsmanship and the creative power of technical communities. He currently is the co-leader for the London JUG, runs two open source projects (PCGen and Ikasan EIP) and is a bartender at the Javaranch.
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Martin Gunnarsson
Great programmers are usually lousy designers,
and vice versa, but Martin is one of those crossbreeds
who can handle both.
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Mathias Olausson
Mathias Olausson is an ALM consultant at Callista Knowledgebase, where he focuses on software architecture and improving software development processes.
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Matthew McCullough
Matthew McCullough is an energetic 13 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy.
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Mattias Skarin
I’m a co-author of ”Kanban & Scrum, making the best of both” and regularly train and coach in Lean, Kanban and TDD.
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Michael Hill
GeePaw Hill has been a professional programmer for thirty-one years. For the last eleven, he has focused his efforts as a trainer, coach, and team lead on XP software projects and transitions.
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Michael Schuetz
Michael's professional interests include Seam/CDI, Java EE testing, Java EE Cloud Hosting and Git.
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Morten Kromberg
Morten Kromberg has been developing applications and tools for developers in APL since 1979. Amongst other things, he was the CTO of Adaytum Software from 1995 to 2000, where he was responsible for the development of a highly successful business planning solution based upon APL.
Since 2005, Morten has been the CTO of Dyalog Ltd. Morten is a frequent speaker at APL conferences, and presented a paper titled “Arrays of Objects” at 2007 the symposium on Dynamic Languages.
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Mårten Haglind
Mårten Haglind is a Senior Java Consultant, Coder and Architect mainly in the Java Enterprise sphere with extensive hands-on experience from the field.
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Nathaniel Schutta
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups.
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Neal Ford
Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 5 books spanning a variety of technologies.
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Niklas Gustavsson
Niklas works as a developer and architect at Callista Enterprise and
has a special interest in web technologies and the JVM.
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Oleg Zhurakousky
Oleg is an Sr. Software Engineer with SpringSource/VMWare and has 14+ years of experience in software engineering across multiple disciplines including software architecture and design, consulting, business analysis and application development. He currently focuses on delivering simple but powerful Spring based solutions to the North American market.
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Patrick Kua
Best described as a Generalising Specialist, Patrick Kua works as an agile practitioner, coach and technical leader.
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Paul Rayner
Paul Rayner is a Denver-based independent consultant with more than twenty years of software development and consulting experience. His company, Virtual Genius LLC, helps organizations implement well-crafted enterprise software solutions using agile development principles and practices.
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Peter Andersson
Peter Andersson works as a project leader at HiQ, specialising in next
generation platforms for the automotive industry. Peter recently comes from
ST-Ericsson where he coordinated Android upgrades for ST-Ericssons coming platform U8500.
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Peter Norrhall
Peter Norrhall is Chief Architect at Extenda where he continuously tries to improve the software products, processes and people.
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Peter Taylor
Peter is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management; currently as head of a PMO at Siemens Industry Software Limited a supplier of global product lifecycle management solutions. He is also very interested in maintaining a good work/life balance.
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Pierluigi Pugliese
Pierluigi Pugliese started hacking code so long ago that he cannot remember exactly when anymore. He worked many years in the mobile telecommunication business, both as programmer and as a team leader, providing software for several mobile phones of known brands.
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Pontus Wittenmark
Pontus is an experienced trainer and developer with a strong focus on the web side of things. He’s been working exclusively with the .NET framework since its inception
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Pär Sikö
Pär is a passionate developer whoʼs been working
with client side Java for more than ten years and
that is hoping for another ten years filled with
challenges and new technology.
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Rik Arends
Rik is co-founder and CTO of Ajax.org. Ajax.org has released Cloud9 IDE to help developers in creating collaborative web applications.
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Rikard Edgren
Rikard Edgren, 38 years old with an educational background in Philosophy and Music. Has 12 years of experience first with Microsoft and then with TIBCO Spotfire, a producer of interactive visual data analysis software.
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Robert Boedigheimer
Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 15 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET.
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Sarah Taraporewalla
Sarah is a Senior Consultant working for ThoughtWorks, where she specializes in developing robust software for the future, delivered today.
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Scott Allen
Scott is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems and Web development. Scott has worked on everything from 8-bit embedded devices to large scale web sites during his 15+ years in commercial software development. Since 2001, Scott has focused on server-side and web technologies, like ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow, Silverlight, and LINQ. Scott is also a speaker at national conferences like VSLive!, as well as code camps and user groups near his hometown of Hagerstown, MD.
Scott has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2005, and has written or co-authored several books on Microsoft technologies. Scott founded the site OdeToCode.com in 2004, and joined Pluralsight in 2007.
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Shay Friedman
Shay Friedman is a Visual C#/IronRuby MVP and the author of IronRuby Unleashed and ASP.NET 4 Programmer's Reference.
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Staffan Nöteberg
Staffan Nöteberg is the author of the popular book Pomodoro Technique Illustrated. He spent the recent decades as a freelance software developer, he's an internationally acclaimed conference speaker, and he also helped several companies to start with agile and lean. He lives in Stockholm and Istanbul.
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Steve Freeman
Steve was a pioneer of Agile software development in the UK, he has built applications for banks, ISPs, financial data providers, and specialist software companies. He has given training courses in Europe, America, and Asia.
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Steven List
Steven “Doc” List (generally known as Doc) is currently a principal consultant
with ThoughtWorks, a highly respected international technology consulting
company. Docʼs focus is on organizational transformation and agile adoption,
including coaching, assessment, and training.
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Thomas Lundström
Thomas Lundström, MSc, is a consultant in Agile software
development with Softhouse in Malmö, Sweden. As a
generalist leaning towards the .NET space, he has worked
in tech lead roles in a number of Agile projects in the south
of Sweden.
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Thomas Nilsson
Thomas Nilsson currently works mostly as a coach to large and small development organisations, including multiple Ericsson sites. This has involved starting new agile teams, teaching TDD to developers, Product Backlog prioritisation to Product Owners, re-inventing planning of
large-scale projects with Project Leads as well as coaching Scrum Masters, teams and managers.
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Tiberiu Covaci
Tiberiu started his developer career in 1991, but wasn't until 1994 that he got introduced into the Microsoft world of technologies. He moved from Romania to Sweden 1996, to work as a programmer.
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Tim Berglund
Tim Berglund runs a software consulting firm called the August Technology Group, which provides training and development services to customers building web applications with open-source tools, especially with the Grails framework.
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