Ben Evans

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Ben Evans is an author, architect and educator. He is currently
Senior Principal at Red Hat. Previously he was Lead Architect for
Instrumentation at New Relic, and co-founded jClarity, a performance
tools startup acquired by Microsoft. He served for 6 years on the Java
Community Process Executive Committee, helping define new Java
standards. He is a Java Champion and 3-time JavaOne Rockstar Speaker.

Ben is the author of “Optimizing Java”, the new editions of “Java in a
Nutshell” and the recently-updated “The Well-Grounded Java Developer”
and hIs technical articles are read by thousands of developers every
month. Ben is a regular speaker and educator on topics such as the
Java platform, systems architecture, performance and concurrency for
companies and conferences all over the world.