Developer Advocate

Steve Poole

Steve is a Developer Advocate, DevOps practitioner (whatever that means), and long-time IBM Java developer, leader, and evangelist. He has been working on Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than a year old. He has also had time to work on other things including representing or leading various JSRs, and being a committer on open source projects including ones at Apache, Eclipse, and OpenJDK. He is a member of the Adopt OpenJDK group championing community involvement in OpenJDK, and is a seasoned speaker and regular presenter at international conferences on technical and software engineering topics.