Java Community Process: Executive Committee Elections Nominees for 2026

As one of the world's largest users of Java, Alibaba is deeply committed to Java's continued success. Java is foundational to Alibaba's online commerce, payment, and logistics services, as well as its cloud and data platforms. The scale and diversity of these deployments give us the opportunity and responsibility to share practical experience with the Java community. Alibaba began contributing to OpenJDK in 2010 and remains active in both update releases and the mainline JDK. Our engineers' work spans HotSpot, core libraries, testing infrastructure, and serviceability. They serve the OpenJDK community in roles including Member, Reviewer, Committer, and Author. Oracle's announcements for recent Java releases have repeatedly recognized Alibaba among the organizations making notable contributions.

Hardware architecture support is an important part of these contributions. Our engineers contributed to RISC-V support in OpenJDK 11u and continue that work in the mainline JDK. Their work extends to AArch64 and helps preserve Java's portability as cloud and data-center hardware evolves.

Alibaba would bring practical experience in large-scale Java deployments and cloud services to the JCP Executive Committee. We look forward to working with other EC members to advance an open, compatible, and sustainable Java ecosystem.

Alibaba Position Statement (.pdf file)

Sanhong Li has been working on Java since 2004, when he began his career at Intel, working on the implementation of JSR 135. In 2010, he began working on IBM's J9 VM, where he led a project to develop multi-tenancy technology for the JVM. In 2014, he joined Alibaba to lead the development of Alibaba Dragonwell, a downstream distribution of OpenJDK. He has authored over twenty technical patents and papers in the area of managed runtimes and presented at conferences including JVMLS, JavaOne, and QCon. He is a Java Champion, co-leader of the GreenTea JUG (the largest JUG in China), Alibaba's representative on the GraalVM Project Advisory Board, and a member of the Eclipse Adoptium PMC.

BellSoft's mission is to make Java the first choice for enterprise development. We ship a Java platform that runs everywhere our users deploy, and we support it for as long as they run it. Our core contribution is Liberica JDK: a free, TCK-verified OpenJDK distribution compliant with the Java SE specification. Liberica covers every actively maintained Java SE version, runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and supports x86 64/32-bit, ARM 64/32-bit, RISC-V, and PowerPC. One runtime spans cloud, server, desktop, and embedded workloads, so a team can standardize on a single JDK across its whole estate. Around that runtime, we build what Java deployments need next. Liberica Native Image Kit compiles Java ahead of time. Alpaquita Linux is a Linux distribution tuned for Java workloads; it cuts container image size and resident memory for cloud deployments. BellSoft engineers contribute upstream to OpenJDK. We maintain builds for architectures the ecosystem would otherwise lose, ship security updates on the quarterly cadence enterprises depend on, and back it all with commercial support for thousands of customers, from startups to regulated industries. That support work is where our EC perspective comes from. We see what specification decisions cost downstream: migration friction, performance regressions on architectures nobody benchmarked, and the gap between a spec being finished and a spec being adoptable. Java's strength is its standards. Compatibility, TCK verification, and open specification development keep the platform coherent as it evolves. They also keep it implementable by vendors that aren't the largest, which is the perspective BellSoft would bring to the EC. We would push for specifications that stay implementable across the full hardware range Java is asked to run on, and for a JCP that stays open to contributors of every size.

With 17 years of Java experience, including engineering and team lead roles, Pasha Finkelshteyn is a Developer Advocate at BellSoft, the company behind Liberica JDK and Alpaquita Linux. He works with BellSoft's engineering team on developer tooling and carries feedback from the Java community back into the products. He speaks at Java conferences, including JavaZone and Devoxx Belgium, and writes about the JVM and Kotlin.

BNY Technology, with a multi-billion-dollar annual investment in technology and innovation, includes more than 12,000 technologists and developers globally who support the bank's role as a leading provider of clearing, payments, custody, and asset servicing solutions to the global financial markets. Our teams of technologists and developers continue to innovate solutions that support BNY's role as a leading global financial services company serving institutions, corporations, and individual investors around the world. The Java ecosystem remains a significant part of the technology stack across the BNY enterprise. BNY is represented in the Java community by Java Champions Victor Grazi and Loiane Groner. JCP Involvement • Actively serving as a ratified member of the JCP Executive Committee • Participating in the OpenJDK Quality Outreach Program through Spring Kata and BNY Code Katas • Committed to Java in Education, including Java AI for education initiatives • Engaging the Java community through presentations, videos, blogs, and code workshops for developers at all levels • Supporting open-source learning through BNY GitHub resources, including Code Katas and Spring Katas • Regularly updating educational materials to keep pace with Java's six-month release cadence • Contributing thought leadership to the Java ecosystem, including Real World Java by Victor Grazi BNY values its continued participation in the Java Community Process and remains committed to supporting the evolution of the Java ecosystem through advocacy, education, community engagement, and practical contribution.

BNY Position Statement (.pdf file)

Loiane is a Distinguished Engineer | Director at BNY and has authored books for Packt Publishing. Google Developer Expert in Angular, Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, Oracle ACE, Java Champion, and speaker at tech conferences. In her spare time, she loves contributing to the community, and she publishes tech videos on Youtube, creates free programming courses at https://loiane.training and writes on loiane.com.

Creator of IntelliJ IDEA, one of the most popular Java IDEs, JetBrains makes development a more productive and enjoyable experience for developers across the globe. JetBrains sets a high bar for itself in supporting new Java features in IntelliJ IDEA (including preview features), increasing its adoption by the developer community.

As a member of the Executive Committee, JetBrains brings multiple areas of expertise. We are:
- developers who use Java extensively to develop our wide suite of tools.
- the creators of the JVM language Kotlin, and understand the benefits of the JVM as a platform and know its impact is wider than just Java-the-language.
- leaders who understand the challenges of implementing new standards since we create tools for developers.
- active advocates for the Java platform, and help developers to learn about and adopt new APIs and standards.

JetBrains believes involvement in the community is fundamental to helping the Java platform to evolve, and before being on the JCP EC, JetBrains was involved in several Expert Groups, including JSR 305 (Annotations for Software Defect Detection), JSR 334 (Project Coin), and JSR 335 (Lambda Expressions).

Anton Arhipov is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, where he focuses on developer tools and improving the developer experience. A Java Champion since 2014, he has two decades of experience in server-side development, developer education, and building tools and content for the Java community. Anton is a regular conference speaker, author, and advocate for modern development practices. He is passionate about helping developers be more productive and ensuring that the Java ecosystem remains innovative, accessible, and enjoyable for developers of all backgrounds.

Netflix is powered by Java.

Thousands of Java services, running across hundreds of thousands of JVMs, deliver on-demand and live video to hundreds of millions of members around the world.

As the Java language and platform evolve faster than ever, the cost of adopting a new release or enabling a new feature falls on the people who operate Java in production. Netflix wants to bring that operator's perspective to the Executive Committee, helping make new Java versions and features easier and cheaper to adopt for everyone who builds and runs Java applications.

We have a long history of contributing to the Java ecosystem through build tooling, libraries, security, and performance work, and we adopt new LTS and feature releases early. Through JEPs and projects like Leyden and Generational ZGC, we've worked closely with OpenJDK and the JCP to provide production feedback, identify tooling gaps, and share what we've learned about putting these new platform capabilities into service at scale.

Netflix has benefited enormously from the OpenJDK community, and we'd welcome the chance to give back by helping shape the future of the language and runtime. With your support, we look forward to working with JUGs, JVM vendors, Oracle, and the broader OpenJDK community to help build the best platform for the next generation of Java developers.

Netflix Position Statement (.pdf file)

Paul Bakker is a member of Netflix's Java Platform team, which develops the frameworks and tooling used to build Java services across Netflix. The team also plays a leading role in evaluating new JDK features and rolling them out across the Netflix ecosystem. Paul is a Java Champion and frequent conference speaker. His "How Netflix Is Using Java" presentations are among the most watched videos about Java. He has co-authored books on the Java Platform Module System and OSGi and is the creator of the DGS Framework. His work gives him a hands-on perspective on Java platform evolution, framework design, developer productivity, and the adoption of new Java technologies in large-scale production environments.

With over 250,000 enterprise customers, SAP is the world's leading provider of business software. A significant portion of those SAP customers run SAP software based on Java. SAP is committed to the continued success of Java. Java is part of SAPs latest cloud offerings, tools as SAP Build Code want to empower even more people to develop business applications with Java, always based on the latest technology as currently Java 25. We embrace the Tip&Toe scheme: most of our JVM usages have moved away from Java 17 to 21 and 25. SAP has participated in the JCP since 2001, and collaborated in over 50 JSRs. SAP contributes to OpenJDK since 2012. It is among the biggest external contributors to the OpenJDK project. It currently leads the OpenJDK 17 and 25 updates project and the AIX/ppc port project. Further SAP is heavily involved in the OpenJDK 21 updates project aiming to keep all SAP Supported OpenJDK LTS versions up to date. SAP is member of the vulnerability group preparing fixes for security issues.

SAP is deeply committed to making Java easier to observe, diagnose, and support in production, contributing both to the OpenJDK serviceability stack and to the tools and infrastructure around it. Recent examples include JEP 509, JFR CPU-Time Profiling in JDK 25, as well as continued work on profiling, debugging, and diagnostics and the open-source ecosystem that enables them. We complement this technical work with education and outreach, including the JFR Event Collection , and with the contributions of, e.g., a Java Champion whose work focuses on Java serviceability and making these capabilities more accessible to the wider community.

SAP offers SapMachine, a free build of OpenJDK on a broad variety of platforms.

Götz Lindenmaier works for SAP for more than 21 years. During this time he was involved in various projects around the SAP Java Virtual Machine. With his background in compiler construction he started with porting Java 5 to the Itanium platform integrating an instruction scheduler in C2. This is still live in SAP's Java 8 JVM. After working on the ppc and s390 port he continued enhancing the SAP Java Virtual Machine with new features and maintaining it.

Götz is OpenJDK Reviewer for a long time and helped SAP and its Java VM team engage in the OpenJDK project. He contributed the AIX, ppc and s390 ports on behalf of SAP. The ppc port was the first platform port to make it to the mainline of OpenJDK breaking the ice for further large contributions. Currently Götz is the lead of the OpenJDK 17 and 25 updates projects and engaged in the 21 updates. In this role he monitors all changes contributed to these jdks to assure stability and quality while allowing the necessary modernization to keep them relevant for modern systems.

Eclipse Foundation has been participating as a champion of open source on the JCP Executive Committee since 2007. As the home of the Eclipse Java IDE, Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE), MicroProfile, Adoptium, and the Eclipse Temurin Java SE runtime, the Eclipse Java Compiler, Eclipse Collections, OpenJ9, and the Open VSX Registry we are very much committed to an open Java ecosystem. Our primary contribution to the JCP EC has always been to represent the interests of the open source community, and for independent implementations of Java specifications. We also have a specification process that has been used successfully for Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, Eclipse Sparkplug, and AsciiDoc. We would like to continue representing our communities and others with similar interests on the JCP EC and would appreciate your support.

Eclipse Foundation Position Statement (.pdf file)

Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He has served on the EC since 2016, worked on several JSRs and has been awarded as Outstanding Spec Lead and Star Spec Lead. At Eclipse Foundation, he works with Jakarta EE as well as multiple other open source projects within the Java ecosystem.

The Garden State Java User Group, Inc., in continuous operation since February 2001, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides a forum to promote the use of Java platforms, APIs, and the Java language. We strive to facilitate interactive discussions and the exchange of ideas surrounding Java applications.

We are partner members of the Java Community Process (JCP), as well as guest members of both the MicroProfile Working Group and the Jakarta EE Working Group. Additionally, we serve on the leadership council of the Jakarta EE Ambassadors and have adopted the Jakarta NoSQL and Jakarta Data specifications.

We hold our monthly meetings at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. We actively involve Drew students by offering hands-on opportunities to participate, and we are proud members of the JCP's Java in Education initiative.

Michael Redlich has been an active member within the Java community for the past 25 years. He founded the Garden State Java User Group (formerly the ACGNJ Java Users Group) in 2001 where he serves as one of the directors. Since 2016, Mike has served as a Java community news editor for InfoQ where his contributions include the weekly Java news roundup, news items, technical articles and technical reviews from external authors. He is currently the lead Java Queue editor. Mike served as a contract Developer Advocate and Technical Writer for Payara from 2023 through 2025.

He is the author of "Helidon Revealed: A Practical Guide to Oracle's Microservices Framework" that was released in December 2024.

Mike has presented at venues such as Devnexus, JavaOne, Oracle Code One, JCON World, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, and numerous Java User Groups. Mike serves as a committer on the Jakarta NoSQL and Jakarta Data specifications and the Eclipse JNoSQL project. He also participates on the leadership council of the Jakarta EE Ambassadors. Mike was named a Java Champion in April 2023.

Microsoft brings to the JCP Executive Committee the perspective of a major Java user, cloud provider, developer-tools builder, and active contributor to the broader Java ecosystem. We deploy more than 2.5 million JVMs across Microsoft and run Java at scale for customers on Azure. The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK powers services including LinkedIn and Minecraft Java Edition, while our dedicated Java Engineering Group contributes directly to OpenJDK. This combination of operational scale, engineering depth, and engagement with developers enables us to assess JSRs from the perspectives of specification quality, compatibility, security, performance, and the practical needs of Java users.

Microsoft is committed to active, constructive participation in the JCP. We review and vote on JSRs and maintenance releases, participate in Executive Committee meetings, and contribute to discussions spanning Java SE, the Java ecosystem, and Java and AI. Our positions are developed collaboratively across Microsoft's Java engineering, product, developer advocacy, cloud, and AI communities, representing a broad cross-section of Java users and developers rather than a single product or organisational viewpoint. We support an open, cross-platform Java ecosystem and the JCP's role in evolving Java through transparent standards, strong compatibility, and community collaboration.

Our investment extends across the Java lifecycle: OpenJDK engineering; Java workloads and managed services on Azure; Java tooling in Visual Studio Code and GitHub; collaboration with projects and foundations including Eclipse Adoptium and Eclipse JDT; and technologies built on Apache projects such as Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Lucene, and ZooKeeper. We are also investing in Java's future through Semantic Kernel for agentic applications, an idiomatic Java implementation of the GitHub Copilot SDK, and evaluation work to improve AI-assisted development for Java. Microsoft seeks continued EC membership to bring together deep language and runtime expertise, experience operating Java at global scale, and a long-term commitment to helping Java and its community thrive.

Microsoft Position Statement (.pdf file)

Martijn Verburg is the Principal SWE Group Manager for the Java, Python, and Go Engineering Group at Microsoft. Prior to the acquisition by Microsoft, he was the CEO and co-founder of jClarity. Martijn is one of the co-founders of Eclipse Adoptium (previously AdoptOpenJDK) and today represents Microsoft on its Project Management Committee (PMC). Martijn is the co-author of "The Well-Grounded Java Developer" and "The Well-Grounded Java Developer 2nd Edition". He was made a Java Champion in recognition for his contribution to the Java ecosystem. Martijn can also be found at major conferences (JavaOne, JFokus, OSCON, Devoxx etc) where he is known for challenging the industry status quo as "the Diabolical Developer".

As a large community group with over 3000 members including both those in Chicago and outside of the city, we have members that work with all areas of the Java ecosystem. We also have a number of users that are not involved with Java day-to-day, but work with other languages and platforms, providing insight and expertise from those areas. We have recently been partnering with other user groups, such as the AI Collective, to bring more communities together. Our members understand the importance of the Java Community Process, and we are devoted to helping ensure the integrity, stability, and continued modernization of the Java Platform. Our Java users group brings strong qualifications to run for a seat in the Java Community Process, combining deep expertise in Java with emerging leadership in AI. Our leaders are actively engaged with an external AI think-tank (AI Collective), as well as the Java Champions-initiated Java and AI Working Group (j-AIWG), contributing to global discussions, organizing events, and promoting best practices in responsible AI use. With a human-centered focus on advancing AI and ML technologies, we aim to bridge developer communities and ensure Java remains at the forefront of innovation. As a member of the Java Community Process, in addition to being involved in the JSR processes, we will continue to evangelize the Java ecosystem and community on an international scale. If elected, the Chicago Java Users Group will incorporate feedback from the Java community and other tech communities to help shape the future of the Java Platform, as well as the incorporation of AI technologies into our ecosystem. Our members regularly attend and assist with a number of Java conferences and programs. Through these collaborations, we focus on nurturing the Java ecosystem, spreading knowledge and awareness, and helping to evolve the platform.

Josh Juneau started developing with Java in the early 2000s. He works as a Senior Software Engineer, system analyst, and database administrator. He primarily develops using Java and other JVM languages, and specializes in Jakarta EE. Josh is an author, he was a JCP Expert Group member for JSR 372 and JSR 378, and is a member of the Apache NetBeans PMC. Josh is a Java Champion, and a co-host for the "Java OffHeap", and "Stackd" podcasts. He helps to organize the jChampions conference, and is actively involved in the Java community.

MicroDoc, headquartered in Munich, Germany, has been part of the Java ecosystem since 2000. We specialize in Java runtime technology for embedded and resource-constrained environments, serving industries including automotive, energy, and healthcare. Our work with OpenJDK, GraalVM, and embedded Java gives us practical experience with the challenges of performance, portability, security, and long-term support across diverse hardware platforms. MicroDoc has served on the JCP Executive Committee since 2014 and remains committed to contributing a practical, implementation-focused perspective to the evolution of Java. A key focus of our work is supporting customers who depend on established Java versions where upgrading is not always immediately feasible due to existing code bases, business requirements, or regulatory constraints. Looking ahead, MicroDoc would like to continue contributing this practical experience to the JCP and to the broader Java ecosystem. We believe that a strong Java platform must not only enable innovation through new features and technologies, but also provide a dependable foundation for the many existing applications that organizations rely on every day. Supporting customers throughout the lifecycle of their Java deployments is an important part of maintaining Java as a secure, stable, and trusted platform.

MicroDoc Position Statement (.pdf file)

Christian Kuka graduated from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg with a diploma in computer science and holds a doctor of natural sciences with focus on data stream processing. He has been working as a researcher at OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology before joining MicroDoc as software engineer in 2016. Kuka has been Managing Director at MicroDoc GmbH since 2019.

Barranquilla Java User Group (BAQJUG) has organized Java community events on Colombia's Caribbean coast for ten years, and has been a JCP Partner Member since 2020. Most of our work happens inside universities, and it is the part that matters most to us. Programs here teach Java as it was in 2009: no records, no sealed classes, no pattern matching, taught by professors who learned the language on Java 6. Java now ships a release every six months and no curriculum in the region has adjusted to that. Students graduate believing Java is slow and verbose, then join a company running Java 21 or 25 and relearn it on the job.

In 2026 we ran sessions at Universidad Autonoma del Caribe, Universidad del Norte, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Unicorsalud and IDITEK on what each release since Java 8 actually changed, how to plan a version migration without breaking production, virtual threads, and Spring AI. At Uninorte's Feria Gamer we reached more than 400 students. Students who walk in thinking Java is legacy walk out asking how to install JDK 25.

We held eleven events between March and September 2026, mixing in-person meetups with virtual sessions, all recorded on our YouTube channel. We also organize DevJVM, the JVM conference of the Colombian Caribbean. The last edition ran at Universidad Libre de Barranquilla with 277 attendees and eighteen speakers across three tracks, held on a university campus on purpose so students can walk in.

BAQJUG works alongside user groups across the region, most of which run their own annual conferences and monthly meetups: Bogota JVM, GDL JUG, Java Dominicano, Java Mexico, JUG Costa Rica, JUG Guatemala, JUG Nicaragua, JUG Panama, PeruJUG and SouJava. Brazil has a voice on the Executive Committee through SouJava. Spanish-speaking Latin America has none, and not for lack of activity. We are asking for the Associate seat to change that.

Barranquilla Java User Group (BAQJUG) Position Statement (.pdf file)

Geovanny Mendoza Gonzalez is a software engineer with more than ten years of experience, most of it building payment systems in Java and Kotlin. He founded and leads the Barranquilla Java User Group in Colombia, and organizes DevJVM, the JVM conference of the Colombian Caribbean.

He teaches modern Java at universities across the Colombian Caribbean: what each release since Java 8 actually changed, how to run a version migration without breaking production, and why the language students were taught is not the language the industry runs. He is a Vaadin Champion and a technical reviewer for Manning Publications, and speaks regularly at Java and Kotlin conferences across Latin America.

He works mainly with Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, TypeScript and AWS. His open source work is at github.com/geovannymcode.

He started BAQJUG because there was no Java community on Colombia's Caribbean coast and no good reason for that. Ten years later the group runs monthly events, fills university auditoriums, and coordinates with a dozen user groups across Latin America. He wants the same thing for the region's place in the JCP.

The London Java Community has a long record of active participation in the Java ecosystem and in the Java Community Process itself. The LJC has previously served on the JCP Executive Committee, contributed to discussions about the evolution and openness of the JCP, and helped establish initiatives such as Adopt-a-JSR that brought ordinary Java developers much closer to the standards process. Since its founding in 2007, the LJC has grown into a community numbering thousands of developers, architects, technical leaders, open-source contributors and Java users working across a wide range of industries.

As a Java User Group, the LJC brings a perspective that is different from that of a vendor or technology provider. Our interest is in the long-term health of Java and in ensuring that the people who build, deploy and maintain Java applications have a meaningful voice in its evolution.

We can take discussions from the Executive Committee to working developers, gather practical feedback, test assumptions against real-world use and bring that experience back into the JCP. Our previous participation has demonstrated that a user group can do more than represent developers: it can actively connect them with the standards process.

Java is evolving quickly, while the environment around it is changing just as rapidly through cloud computing, AI-assisted development, software supply-chain security, new regulatory requirements and changes in how open-source software is developed and sustained.

The LJC can bring an independent, practitioner-led perspective to those discussions while continuing to promote openness, compatibility and broad community participation. We believe our combination of previous JCP experience, technical depth, community reach and practical engagement makes the LJC well qualified to return to the Executive Committee.

Steve Poole is a long-standing member of the Java community, a Java Champion, Oracle ACE and IBM Champion, and an international speaker and author. He has been involved with Java standards and open source for many years, including leading JSR work, contributing to OpenJDK, and serving as a committer on projects at Apache and Eclipse. Steve is a Community Director of the London Java Community and has actively helped connect working Java developers with the wider Java ecosystem. His interests span the evolution of the Java platform, open-source sustainability, software security and the practical impact of standards on developers and organisations.

He brings both a practitioner and community perspective to the JCP, with a particular interest in ensuring that Java's standards process remains open, relevant and informed by the experience of the developers who build and maintain real-world Java systems.

Zoran Sevarac is a Java Champion and he served as the JCP EC member and co-lead of the expert group for JSR 381, the Visual Recognition API using machine learning. As a member of JCP EC he initiated the formation of Java and AI Working Group, with purpose to support evolution of Java platform and ecosystem, in which he served as a co-lead. As CEO of Deep Netts, he focuses on enabling native AI support in Java. The community edition of the Deep Netts Java library serves as the reference implementation for the Visual Recognition API JSR 381. It is also among first implementations of Java AI library based on new java platform features such as Vector API and FFM API based CUDA GPU support. With his background, Zoran brings valuable expertise in AI and machine learning to the Executive Committee (EC). His primary goals within the EC are to accelerate the development of Java platform features that support AI, leveraging existing tools and projects, and simplify development and integration of AI into Java applications.

Deep Netts Position Statement (.pdf file)

Zoran Sevarac is the co-founder and CEO of Deep Netts Technologies, a startup focused on developing a Java-based AI development platform, and a full professor at University of Belgrade. The goal of this project is to simplify the process of integrating AI into Java applications and positioning Java as an AI development platform. His primary areas of interest include artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering, and Java. Zoran is Java Champion and recipient of the Duke's Choice Award for his educational neural network software, Neuroph. In addition to his work in AI, he plays guitar and is a member of the Null Pointers, a Java community band.

JUG Istanbul is one of the long-standing and active Java User Groups in Türkiye, with a strong focus on building and connecting the Java developer community. Since 2010, JUG Istanbul has organized meetups, workshops, technical events, and Java Day Istanbul, an international developer conference focused on Java, Cloud, AI, and software architecture. Through these activities, we bring together developers, architects, technology leaders, and Java ecosystem contributors and help connect the local community with the global Java ecosystem. As a JCP Executive Committee member, JUG Istanbul would bring the perspective of grassroots developer communities from Türkiye and the wider region. We are particularly interested in the evolution of Java for modern cloud-native systems, AI and agentic applications, developer productivity, software architecture, and open-source collaboration. We believe that the practical experience and feedback of developers using Java in real-world systems should be an important input into the evolution of the Java platform. JUG Istanbul has been actively involved in the Java ecosystem and intends to continue contributing to the JCP community through community engagement, technical discussions, JSR-related activities, Java and AI initiatives, and collaboration with other JUGs and Java ecosystem organizations. We would use our community reach and Java Day Istanbul platform to communicate JCP developments to developers and bring community feedback back to the JCP.

Altug Bilgin Altintas is a software architect, Java community leader, and co-founder of JUG Istanbul. He has been working with Java and software architecture for more than two decades and has extensive experience in enterprise software development, architecture, software quality, and engineering practices. He is the founder and organizer of Java Day Istanbul, an international developer conference bringing together Java and software professionals from Türkiye and around the world. Altug is also a Java Champion and an active contributor to the Java and open-source communities. His interests include Java, software architecture, cloud-native systems, AI-assisted and agentic software engineering, developer productivity, and engineering practices. Through JUG Istanbul and Java Day Istanbul, he works to connect developers and technology communities in Türkiye with the global Java ecosystem.

The Dominican Republic Java User Group (Java Dominicano) brings over a decade of community governance, hands-on JCP participation, and dedicated advocacy for non-English-speaking developer communities.

Much of the global Java workforce learns, builds, and works outside English-native regions. Our community has focused on lowering language and educational barriers by delivering native-language technical programming, co-leading multi-JUG initiatives like JDK Fundamental Talks and the Zero to Hero Java Bootcamp, and hosting JConf Dominicana. Our work in the Java in Education Working Group earned our community the 2024 JCP Program Award in the Java in Education category.

Representing the JUG, Brayan Muñoz V. is an Oracle ACE Associate, Senior Lead Engineer, and Professor with an MSc in Data Science. Supported by a leadership board that includes Java Champion Eudris Cabrera and Vaadin Champion Freddy Peña, Brayan brings production-grade experience running mission-critical banking platforms alongside direct classroom involvement shaping university engineering curricula.

On the Executive Committee, we offer the technical rigor of enterprise practitioners, a demonstrated commitment to modernizing university curricula, and a vital perspective focused on making Java standards, documentation, and adoption accessible to non-English-speaking developers worldwide.

Dominican Republic JUG Position Statement (.pdf file)

Brayan Muñoz V. is an Oracle ACE Associate, Senior Lead Engineer, and Professor with an MSc in Data Science. A co-leader of the Dominican Republic JUG—winner of the JCP Award for Java in Education—and co-organizer of JConfDominicana, Brayan brings over six years of enterprise Java experience and deep community advocacy across Latin America. His candidacy focuses on strengthening university Java education, empowering emerging developer regions, and driving modern Java integration with enterprise AI/ML architectures.

Grobmeier Solutions GmbH is a small German software company with a strong background in Java and open-source software. Its founder and primary representative, Christian Grobmeier, has worked with Java for more than two decades and has been active in the Apache Software Foundation since 2009. He is a Java Champion, software developer, trainer and author. Grobmeier Solutions brings the perspective of a small company working directly with Java and open-source communities. We are particularly interested in openness, compatibility, participation by smaller organizations, and the long-term health of the Java ecosystem.

Christian Grobmeier Position Statement (.pdf file)

Christian Grobmeier has been developing software since 1998 and has worked with Java and open-source technologies for more than two decades. He is a Java Champion, software developer, trainer, author, and CEO of Grobmeier Solutions GmbH. Christian has been an active member of the Apache Software Foundation since 2009, where he contributes to several projects and serves as Vice President, Data Privacy. He is a member of the Apache Logging Services PMC and has contributed to Apache Log4j and other widely used open-source projects.

For many years, Christian has worked throughout the Java ecosystem as a developer, open-source maintainer, trainer, speaker, and author. More recently, his work has increasingly focused on the intersection of Java, open source, and AI-assisted software development.

Christian is particularly interested in the sustainability of the Java ecosystem, the people maintaining its open-source infrastructure, and ensuring that Java continues to evolve as an open, collaborative platform.

Java User Group Bangladesh (JUGBD) is a volunteer-led community founded in 2013 to promote Java and connect developers in Bangladesh. Through meetups, workshops, conferences, and online sessions with local and international speakers, we help students and professionals learn from one another. We seek an Associate seat on the JCP Executive Committee to help our community move from using Java to participating in its evolution. Education is central to our work. JUGBD was nominated for the Java in Education Community Award at the 22nd Annual JCP Awards. The nomination highlighted the founder's work engaging Java leaders, educators, and students in the initiative. We want to build on this contribution by working with educators and other JUGs to make modern Java learning more accessible, including through resources in Bengali. We would bring the perspective of a grassroots community that links education with professional practice. Our priorities are an open standards process, dependable compatibility, and clearer paths for individual developers to contribute. We want Java's evolution to reflect both the needs of newcomers and the experience of those maintaining production applications. If elected, we will organize community discussions around relevant Java Specification Requests, gather practical feedback, and share it with specification teams. We will bring community concerns to Executive Committee discussions, report back to our members, and contribute to Java in Education by sharing resources and hosting events with other JUGs. Our goal is to make JCP participation a sustained part of JUGBD's work.

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Java Champion and Senior Staff Software Engineer at Hammerspace, based in Toronto, Canada. He founded Java User Group Bangladesh (JUGBD) in 2013 and has spent more than a decade supporting Java education and community development. He is the author of Modern Concurrency in Java, published by O'Reilly, and five Java books in Bengali. He serves as an editor for InfoQ's Java coverage and writes for Foojay. His conference talks and writing focus on modern Java, concurrency, JVM performance, and AI-powered applications. As JUGBD's representative, he would bring practical engineering experience and a long-standing commitment to making Java knowledge and community participation more accessible.

Japan Java User Group (JJUG), established in 2007, is Japan's largest Java communities, with more than 13,000 members. We organize monthly seminars and the biannual JJUG CCC conferences, support regional JUGs across Japan, and maintain strong connections with the global Java community through activities such as JOnsen. JJUG served on the JCP Executive Committee from 2023 through 2025. Through that experience, we gained a deeper understanding of the discussions and context behind Java's evolution and brought that knowledge back to the Japanese developer community through JJUG events. At the same time, we became even more aware that valuable ideas, experiences, and community voices from Japan do not always reach the global Java community because of language and geographic barriers. If elected again, JJUG would like to further strengthen this connection in both directions. We want to make the JCP and the discussions around Java's evolution more accessible to developers in Japan, while bringing the perspectives and experiences of Japanese developers and JUGs into the global conversation.

Shin Tanimoto is a Java Champion, Oracle ACE, and CTO of Everforth in Japan. He is the leader of the Japan Java User Group (JJUG), Japan's largest Java communities, and the founder of KanJava, a Java User Group in the Kansai region. From 2023 through 2025, he represented JJUG on the JCP Executive Committee, helping bring the context and discussions around Java's evolution back to the Japanese developer community. Shin has spoken at conferences in Japan and around the world, including JavaOne, SpringOne, Java Day Tokyo, and JCConf Taiwan. He is particularly interested in strengthening the two-way connection between Japan and the global Java community, helping ideas and experiences cross language and geographic boundaries in both directions.