Academy Board
Michael Hüttermann
Senior coacher, consultant, and freelancer for Java/JEE and agile development. JUG Cologne leader.
Ann Oreshnikova
Russia / Saint-Petersburg
JetBrains Marketing Director, she's quite a linguaphile, capable in both spoken and programming languages.
James Kovacs
Canada / Calgary
Architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades, one-man show hailing from the Great White North.
Academy Members
Alexander Groß
Germany / Leipzig
Leipzig .NET User Group leader, German .NET Open Space organizer, and software developer at Synexus GmbH.
Antonio Goncalves
France / Paris
Author of a book on Java EE 5, a freelancer, an expert member on Java EE 6, EJB 3.1 and JPA 2.0
Björn Jensen
Germany / Hamburg
Leader of the Hamburg Java & Android User Group, an agile coach and Rubyist
Christophe Jollivet
France / Tours
Founder of Tours Java User Group, a passionate developer at Apside.
Donald Belcham
Canada / Edmonton
President of Edmonton NUG, he speaks at User Groups, Code Camps, Conferences across Canada and US.
Etienne Studer
USA / Oakland
Senior Software Architect for Navis, Implementing continuous integration practices for the firm.
Hamlet D'Arcy
USA / Minneapolis
Software engineer and open source developer for Java, Groovy, and others. Avid blogger and speaker.
Howard van Rooijen
UK / Winchester
.NET Technical Architect with a passion for reducing project delivery friction via Agile Methods
Jak Charlton
Australia / Sydney
Jak Charlton, author of DDD Step By Step and representative of the Academy Down Under.
James Johnson
USA / Riverside
James Johnson is founder and long-time President of the Inland Empire .NET User's Group.
Jan Novotny
Czech Republic / Prague
A passionate blogger, Java developer working at FG Forrest oriented on server side web technologies.
Jean-Paul Boodhoo
Canada / Calgary
An independent software consultant, he fights the never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the .NET way.
Jeff Pennal
Canada / Vancouver
A long-time web application development professional and JetBrains HQ defector
Jeffrey Palermo
USA / Austin (Texas)
Software management consultant, CTO at Headspring Systems, Austin .Net User Group director, and AgileAustin board member.
Jonas Bonér
Sweden / Uppsala
Co-founder & CTO, Triental AB. Developer, lecturure and speaker at developer conferences world-wide.
Jose R. Guay Paz
Guatemala / Guatemala City
Founder of the Guatemala .NET Developer Group, and Senior Web Developer at CSW Solutions.
Laurent Kempé
France / Illzach
Editor, founder, and primary contributor of Tech Head Brothers, a French portal about Microsoft .NET technologies.
Michal Brzozowski
Poland / Kraków
Team leader, and loyal Kraków Developer Group member. Talented developer.
Radosław Holewa
Poland / Kraków
Polish Java User Group leader. GeeCON co-founder. Java, Scala and Groovy developer. Technology addict.
Tim Barcz
USA / Cedar Rapids
MS ASPInsider, MCPD for .NET, Certified Scrum Master, and President of the Cedar Rapids Ineta User Group.
Udi Dahan
Israel / Haifa
Udi Dahan, known as the Software Simplist, is an internationally renowned expert on software Architecture and Design.
Vaclav Pech
Czech Republic / Prague
A programming enthusiast, he's interested in server-side Java technologies, Groovy, Grails, etc.