Vaadin Create Speakers

Josh (@starbuxman) has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 7 books (including "Reactive Spring") and numerous best-selling video training, and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Axon, Spring Cloud, Activiti, Vaadin, etc), a Youtuber (Coffee + Software with Josh Long as well as my Spring Tips series ), and a podcaster ("A Bootiful Podcast").

Vesa Nieminen is a Senior Software Engineer at Vaadin with a passion for both software development and game creation. He recently built Liukuri with Vaadin Flow to track electricity usage and market price fluctuations during the recent energy crisis in Finland. Outside of his professional work, Vesa enjoys exploring game development as a hobby.

René Wilby is a seasoned freelance software engineer specializing in full-stack development for mobile and web apps, system integration, APIs, and DevOps. René also has extensive experience in technical product and project management and serves as a university lecturer and trainer.

Jouni Koivuviita is the Principal Product Designer at Vaadin, focused on helping designers and developers create outstanding web apps. Jouni has a deep passion for web components, design systems, CSS, and web app UI design.

Manolo is a passionate advocate for open source with extensive experience in various high-impact projects. With over 10 years at Vaadin, he has played a key role in developing Web Components and the Flow and Hilla frameworks. As Release Lead, he oversees Quality Assurance, Security, and other critical aspects of each release. In his free time, Manolo enjoys speaking at conferences, traveling, and playing in his music band.

Petter (with two T:s) works as a software architect at Vaadin, mostly on customer projects. He is constantly on the lookout for new and better ways of writing software and likes to try out new things. In his spare time, he likes to put out fires.

Marc is a long-time Vaadineer, carrying a Product Strategist card in his left jeans pocket. Lately, he has mostly been thinking about the new #FFS and other ways to make the developers’ day more enjoyable.

Steven is a builder and a coder who has been a technology leader for over 20 years. He deeply believes in the power of open source software to change the world and that commercial open-source software is the future of not only enterprise software development but software development as a whole.

Marcus is a long-time Java and web developer, always interested in learning new things. He's especially interested in modern web technologies and Java. Marcus loves teaching developers about cool new technologies and has presented at over 50 international conferences and user groups.

Joonas is the co-founder of Vaadin and wrote most of the original framework today, which is called Vaadin Flow. His ongoing passion is to simplify the development of beautiful user interfaces.

Tatu is the team lead of the Expertise team and has close to 10 years of experience in Vaadin and 23 years in Java. The expertise team provides online support and micro consulting for our customers with Prime or Ultimate subscriptions and maintains Vaadin’s legacy products.

Simon Martinelli, owner of 72 Services LLC, has 27 years of experience in Java development. He lectures on modern architecture and Java at Bern University of Applied Sciences. Awarded the Vaadin Community Award, he focuses on enhancing full-stack development with Java and shares his insights through articles, conferences, and his blog: https://martinelli.ch.

Rolf manages the research and development work around Vaadin’s components and theming features. Originally a developer-turned-designer, Rolf is passionate about improving developer-designer collaboration through design systems.

Ben Wilson is passionate about automated application modernization and has over 20 years of experience leading a broad set of aspects ranging from R&D of transformation tooling products to project management of modernization projects in Fortune 5000 companies.

Leif keeps trying to improve how business web applications are being built through understanding why the current ways are difficult and then trying to come up with alternatives. Also product manager for Flow and Hilla.