Jean-Francois Arcand
Jean-Francois Arcand works for Sun Microsystems. He currently leads project Grizzly, an extended NIO based framework used in multiples products.
He also works on Web 2.0 topics like Ajax performance and leads the Comet activities at Sun.
Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Québec where life is perfect.
Jocelyn Aubert
Jocelyn Aubert works as a R&D Engineer at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor since 2006.
He is the co-responsible of the Software Security thematic in the "Software Intensive Services Engineering" unit and the chapter leader of the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Luxembourg Chapter.
Jérome Barbé
David Bandiera
Didier Blaise
Didier Blaise is Application Solutions (AS) Unit Manager of CTG Luxembourg, a consulting, training and outsourcing company. He works with the AS team on consulting missions, mainly on Agile and SDLC Management, Requirements Definition, Open Architectures and RIA topics.
Grégory Boissinot
Grégory Boissinot est consultant Zenika, un cabinet d'architecture informatique spécialisé dans le conseil et la réalisation de solutions basées sur les nouvelles technologies.
Il est un spécialiste des outils de build et des problématiques d'intégration continue qu'il a mis en place à grande échelle. Il possède une expérience industrielle grand compte de ces problématiques et contribue activement à la communauté Open Source dans ce domaine en étant l'un des principaux commiteurs Jenkins/Hudsons.
Evangéliste Gradle, Grégory est convaincu de l'apport de cet outil de build à la réussite des projets.
Guillaume Bort
Guillaume is cofounder and CTO of Zenexity, a french 'web oriented
architecture' company. He is the creator and lead developer of the
Play! framework, which makes it easier to build Web applications in
Java. Made by Web developers, Play! focuses on developer productivity
and targets RESTful architectures.
Arnaud Cogoluègnes

Arnaud Cogoluègnes is a consultant at Zenika. He spent several years
designing and implementing complex Java EE-based business
applications. A SpringSource certified trainer, Arnaud also trained
hundred of developers on Spring and Java technologies. He's the
co-author of Spring par la pratique, Spring Dynamic Modules in Action,
and Spring Batch in Action
Gildas Cuisinier

Gildas Cuisinier, consultant au Luxembourg, est connu pour son activité pour la communauté Spring francophone. Il est à l'origine de la section Spring de Developpez.com laquelle comprend forum, blog, cours, articles techniques, interview et FAQ.
Plus récemment, il a été relecteur de la seconde édition de "Spring par la pratique"
Lionel Coquin
Frédéric Conrotte
Frederic Conrotte is a JBoss certified Java software architect and Eclipse specialist.
With more than 10 years of experience in professional financial software development he is focused on the fields of Enterprise Java, Eclipse RCP, OSGi and JBoss.
Frederic provides trainings on Eclipse Technologies thru the Eclipse Training Alliance.
Olivier Croisier

Olivier Croisier est expert Java chez Zenika. Il est certifié Java 5.0 avec 100%, Spring 2.5 avec 86% et est formateur certifié Terracotta. Olivier a notamment obtenu le titre de Certified JavaSpecialist Master Course Instructor de la part d'Heinz Kabutz, devenant ainsi le formateur JavaSpecialist de référence en France. Il est également l'auteur du blog The Coder's Breakfast.
Arnaud Cormier

Before he became Business Analyst in an organ of the European Union and co-president of the YaJuG,Arnaud has worked in all areas of software development. Developer, analyst, testing consultant, architect, project manager, Arnaud maintains his passion for the expressiveness in programming languages, for all kinds of linguistics, for compilation and code generation by regularly immersing himself with an infinite delight in the intricacies of dynamic languages, the oddities of Java or the inner workings of the Java VM. When he's not playing with his four children, Arnaud sometimes forsakes his IDE to take some photographs.
David Delabassee
David Delabassee is working as Senior Technology Architect for Oracle BeLux. He is focusing on Java end-to-end (from the smart card to the high end server) and all the related technologies such as developer tools, etc. David is also one of the Java Ambassador for the Central & Northern Europe region and a steering member of the Devoxx conference. He has been involved in Java projects since the early days of this technology.
Jean-Christophe Denis
Jean-Christophe Denis is a Senior Manager within KPMG Advisors. Before joining KPMG in early 2007, Jean-Christophe worked 10 years in the IT industry for major service, software and hardware companies. He held various positions in the field of project management, IT architecture, software development, sales and was involved in many strategic international projects. Jean-Christophe has a 360 degree understanding of IT, from establishing business cases to dealing with production issues.
Fabrice Dewasmes
Fabrice Dewasmes has been programming extensively in Java™ since 2000, focusing at first in developing large web sites using Java EE™. He then focused more on Open Source Software and participated in several Open Source projects (Shark, OSWorkflow, Slide) and created JWT (Java Workflow Tooling) at Eclipse. Before that, he was a C programmer, developing Linux device drivers and participating in other real-time embedded softwares for the public telecommunication switch heavily used by Free Telecom. He is now head of the Java™ and Open Source department at Pragma Consult and creator and organiser of a yearly event aiming at promoting Open Source Software in Luxembourg (www.mtc.lu)
Jean-Michel Doudoux
Jean Michel is a senior Java™ architect at Sfeir Benelux. Jean-Michel is the well known author of the french Java tutorial : "Developpons en Java", 1500 pages of valuable technical information for all levels.
You can learn more about Jean-Michel on his personal web site.
Wim Drossaert
Julien Dubois
!dubois.png|thumbnail,align=left!Après plus de 10 années passées en cabinet de conseil et en start-up, Julien Dubois a fondé sa propre société spécialisée dans les technologies Java, Spring et Open Source: Responcia, que vous pouvez retrouver sur http://www.responcia.fr.
Julien est plus particulièrement connu dans la communauté Spring pour avoir co-écrit "Spring par la pratique" (éditions Eyrolles) et avoir dirigé la filiale française de SpringSource (racheté 420 millions de $ par VMWare en 2009).
Philippe Dubois
Dominique Faidherbe
Presales architect, Dominique has started his career at IBM where he occupied various positions in Education, Partner Enablement and in the Software Group. He moved to Sonic Software as Technical Architect and then to BEA Systems. He is now at Oracle Belux. His focus is architecture but he is very interested in Web/Enterprise 2.0 technologies, Portals and SOA. Dominique can be reached on Facebook or LinkedIn.
Christopher Frost
Christopher has been a professional Java developer for 7 years and has spent the last 2 working for SpringSource on the dm Server/Virgo project. As well as looking forward to joining the Eclipse community as a Virgo commiter he is interested in the modularisation of web applications and hopes to be working in this area in the near future. When not at work he enjoys learning about the good design of both websites and applications, he also occasionally jumps out of aeroplanes.
Iwein Fuld
Iwein Fuld is a committer on Spring Integration and co-author of the book Spring Integration in Action. He has spoken on various conferences on topics related to Spring Integration, Cloud Computing and OSGi. Iwein specializes in eXtreme Programming practices favoring Pair Programming and TDD.
After working as a trainer at SpringSource, Iwein found the ideal mix of hard-core development, Agile and off-shoring when he joined Xebia. Iwein is the lead of the Craftsmanship initiative within Xebia (http://essentials.xebia.com) and the Xebia NeXt program which offers traineeships for starting developers.
David Gageot
David Gageot est directeur technique chez Algodeal, un fond d'investissement quantitatif. Après 4 années chez Valtech Technology à aider ses clients à comprendre, initialiser et adopter Scrum sur le long terme, David revient à ses premiers amours, l'écriture de logiciel pointu, le travail d'équipe et la mise en pratique de l'amélioration continue.
David participe à des projets Java depuis 1998, comme responsable des développements chez l'éditeur Adesoft puis comme expert Java et Scrum Master certifié chez Valtech. Il a pour leitmotiv d'être un facilitateur qui, par sa créativité et son expertise, aide les équipes à être plus innovantes et plus efficaces.
Olivier Gerardin
You will find the latest and up-to-date information about Olivier on his blog
Didier Girard
Didier Girard is CTO of SFEIR a consulting company based in Paris.
He is also a member of the Open Source Get Together Paris. He built, abut.cnam.fr, a community web site on literature in 1994. He started building server side java applications in 1997. Didier has bloged on J2EE at application-servers.com since 2000 and on GWT at onGWT.com since GWT was open sourced. He is an early adopter who is constantly looking for good technologies for SFEIR's clients. He is currently working on several projects using GWT as the GUI technology.
Antonio Goncalves
Pierre-Antoine Grégoire
Pierre-Antoine Grégoire is a Software Craftman trained to the arcanes of web and java development since 2000. He has then taken a few steps back thanks to interesting problem-solving opportunities in software integration, and software industrialization optimisations. He is now an I.T. Architect at Agile Partner S.A., advocating Agile practices, and providing expertise in JavaEE, Architecture, Security, and Software development factories. He has participated from time to time in open source projects (Spring IDE, Mule transport...) and initiated some (ORG tools and ORG libs...)
Jochen Hackmann
Arnaud Héritier
Arnaud Héritier est Software Factory Manager chez eXo Platform.
Il est en charge des méthodes et outils de cet éditeur de logiciels afin d'améliorer la qualité des produits, et la productivité des équipes, en interne mais aussi chez les intégrateurs et clients. Passionné par le développement de logiciels il a rejoint en 2004 la communauté Open Source du projet Apache Maven. Il est ensuite rentré dans son comité de direction en 2005.
Il est auteur, avec Nicolas de Loof, d'un ouvrage sur le sujet en Français. Il participe dès que possible aux évènements communautaires pour partager sa passion (Java Users Groups, Java BarCamps, ...). Il vient de publier avec quelques ex-collègues un livre blanc chez OCTO Technology : Java Productivity Primer, Twelve guidelines to boost your productivity with a software factory. Ce dernier est disponible gratuitement en téléchargement en Français et en Anglais.
Thierry Hermann
Holger Schackmann
Holger Schackmann works as an IT architect for KPMG Luxembourg. Previously he was a researcher in the field of software engineering. He earned a doctoral degree in computer science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Yannick Kirschhoffer
Yannick Kirschhoffer is a Software Architect specialized in Object Oriented Design and Open Source technologies. He's mostly focused on the Java/Unix platform stack and puts a strong emphasis on quality and usability. Besides from his daytime job as a Senior Consultant, he runs several projects hosted on SourceForge.
His other interests are progressive music and computer graphics.
Laurent Kratz

Laurent, 45, is an Entrepreneur, Business Angel, and creator of www.lesfrontaliers.lu and www.jamendo.com
Lionel Lecaque
Yves Leblond
Involved in Information Technology since the late 80's, Yves started focusing on Object Oriented Technologies, Distributed Computing and nice GUI. From there, Yves evolved to more business oriented tasks, and to management and pre-sales activities at CTG Luxembourg during the last 10 years. He was a member of the LuxJug board in the late 90's, and one of the funders of the revival of a Java UG in Luxembourg some years ago : the YaJuG.
Now, Yves is Consulting & Strategy Partner at iKe Consulting.
He's current interest points are cloud computing, this incredibly flattening world which allows to transform technical innovation in business opportunities.
You may find more professional informations about him on linked-in, or just follow his late finds on his twitter feed.
Christophe Magnien
Christophe Magnien has been working on j2ee technologies based projects for more than 8 years.
He's been responsible for the implementation of several major Web Content Management platforms in Luxembourg.
He's now leading the e-Business department in Business & Decision Luxembourg (http://www.businessdecision.lu) and is mainly specialized in Enterprise Information Management: Web Content Management, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Search, Master Data Management, Intranet and Extranet portals, Web 2.0, report generation, subscription and dissemination platforms,...
Nicolas Martignole
!nmatignole.jpg|thumbnail,align=left!Nicolas Martignole est consultant indépendant. Développeur Java, passionné, il est l'auteur du blog "Le Touilleur Express" sur Java, l'Agilité et la communauté Java.
Après avoir travaillé dans des startups webs, puis chez Thomson-Reuters dans la Finance, il est devenu freelance en 2008. Il a lancé le site [express-board.fr] au début de l'année 2010, un site complètement réalisé avec le framework Play! Framework.
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine
!AlexisMPSpeaking.png|thumbnail,align=left!Alexis MP is a Java EE & GlassFish Ambassador working at Oracle. Alexis speaks at various international conferences and spends quality time with customers, developers, and architects to better drive the evolution of Java EE and GlassFish. Alexis blogs at http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp and prefers quality to quantity.
Ralph Mueller
Ralph Mueller started working for the Eclipse Foundation in September 2005. A computer scientist by trade, he sees the main focus of his work in the exploration and building of the European Eclipse Eco System. In addition to this, he is one of the main contact points in Central Europe for companies and individuals that want to use Eclipse, provide services around Eclipse or contribute to Eclipse. Based on his past experience, he is also exploring collaboration with industries such as Automotive or Aerospace with the goal to promote the Eclipse idea into these areas.
Attila Narin
Attila Narin is technical at heart and loves innovation, building systems, playing with technologies, and working with customers. He has been with Amazon since October 2004. Before joining the AWS Business Development organization in Europe, he was one of the key members of the Amazon EC2 Team, managing the design and delivery of many of the currently available Amazon EC2 features.
Prior to joining Amazon, Attila held several development and leadership roles at Microsoft and served on Bill Gates' Executive Strategy Team building innovative prototypes. Attila holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Florida.
Christian Neumanns
Damien Nicolas
Eric Noel

Eric NOËL works as a R&D/Java senior developper and WebSphere MQ consultant at REAL Solutions since 2000.
He likes to play with the Java ME platform : "Using the power of JavaEE to drive JavaME applications is my favorite task ... but convincing people of the benefits of this kind of technology is the hardest one!"
Before he spent 4 years in industrial and accounting COBOL environments (VAX, OpenVMS) and when he was 'young', waste few years as a pilot in the Belgian Air Force.
He is now leading the development of a global secured communication system for a large world bank's FI/Corporate customers.
Steven Noels

Steven Noels is co-founder and CEO of Outerthought, makers of the open source Daisy CMS, the Kauri webapp framework and Lily, the first NoSQL-based content repository. Previously deeply infected by the angle brackets bug, he ventured from ancient SGML rites to hipsters' XML and then internet applications and onwards. Outerthought is a Belgian software technology provider on the crossroads of open source, REST, NoSQL and Java-based internet development. Steven is an Apache Software Foundation member, a board member of Gent BC, the platform for the Ghent innovation and technology community and has been sighted with his beloved photo camera on many occasions. Amateur/wannabe DJ, father of three and happily married keeps him busy for the remaining hours.
Talip Ozturk

Talip Ozturk is the founder of Hazelcast and Hazel Ltd. He has been working with enterprise Java since 1999. In 2003, he got fascinated by Jini and developed an implementation of JavaSpaces. In 2008, his passion for distributed programming led him to develop Hazelcast, an open source clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform for Java. Before Hazelcast, he was the director of technology at Zaman Media Group.
Pascal Paulin
Jean-Baptiste Renaux
Jean-Baptiste is a Java Developer working for CTG PSF Luxembourg. He started his career at Sun Laboratory from Supinfo engineer school as a Java trainer. Between his training sessions, he co-wrote the book "EJB 3 - Des concepts à l'écriture" with his colleagues. Now that he works as consultant in Luxembourg, he is also involved in analysis languages (like UML) and methodologies (like Scrum, Unified Process and Prince2).
Simon Ritter
Simon Ritter is a Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. 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. Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Simon moved to Sun in 1996. At this time he started working with Java technology and has spent time working both in Java technology development and consultancy. He now specialises in looking at emerging technologies including cloud computing, wireless sensor networks and gestural user interfaces.
Christoph Rooms
Xavier Roy

Regis Salaris
Eric D. Schabell
Eric D. Schabell has been working within software development since 1998 for many different organizations such as IBM, Radboud University Nijmegen, SNS Bank and smaller software companies. He has been involved in different roles within Open Source projects such as Sourcemage Linux, eGroupWare, DocConversion, cmlFramework and is still helping out in the JBoss jBPM project focusing as lead on the jBPM Migration project. He is employed as the Benelux JBoss Solution Architect for Red Hat, occasionally has taught JBoss jBPM/BRMS courses, is a guest lecturer at the Radboud University Nijmegen and publishes on Open Source topics. See http://www.schabell.org.
Anthoni Schiochet
Anthoni Schiochet is a J2EE / Flex consultant freelancer, specialized in RIA and heavy client applications.
He started working in the early noughties on "digital art" projects, in which he promoted Java language instead of traditionnal C/C++.
He has been investing himself as an active member of YaJUG for the last years.
Lou Schwartz
Sébastien Stormacq

Sébastien Stormacq is a Websphere Solutions Sales Architect at IBM Luxembourg.
He uses his 17+ years of professional experience to map large organizations' paint points to IBM's Websphere Middleware Solutions solutions. Sébastien is focusing on large scale, secured, transactional and integrated solutions, based on SOA and BPM.
Sébastien is passionate about IT Technology at large, with special interest in development platforms, the Java eco-system, mobile and cloud computing. Sébastien is the co-founder of the Luxembourg Java User Group.
Sébastien defines himself as a Geek 2.0, i.e. a geek with social and communication skills ... usually an empty set.
When his two kids are quite - or asleep - he enjoys cooking, digital photography and hacking unix systems.
You can follow Sébastien on his blog or twitter feed.