How
accelerates merging Apache Maven PR builds with Develocity

Guillaume Smet is a Principal software engineer at Red Hat working on Quarkus project. Guillaume has been at Red Hat for over 8 years and has been working on the Quarkus Java stack for cloud native applications for over 5 years. Formerly he was on Hibernate open source project team where he was working on projects such as the Hibernate Validator, Search, ORM, etc to name a few.

Rooz has been a part of the Develocity customer support team helping large Android apps with their shipping-software-at-scale challenges. Rooz is also one of the co-organizers of the San Francisco Android GDG, DPE Summit, and the host of DevProdEng (DPE) Showdown.

Jerome is a Solutions Engineer at Gradle, helping customers optimize their builds. Before that, he spent twenty years as a software developer in very different business domains, from Telecommunications to the Gaming industry, to name a few.

Brian Demers is a Developer Advocate at Gradle, a Java Champion, and an Apache Member who contributes to the Directory, Maven, and Shiro projects. He spends much of his day contributing to OSS projects by writing code, tutorials, blogs, and answering questions. In addition to typical software development, Brian also has a passion for fast builds and automation.

Away from the keyboard, Brian is a beekeeper and can likely be found playing board games. You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/briandemers.