Hal Stern
Senior Vice President, Global Systems Engineering Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: open source software, cloud computing, privacy, security, copyrights, blogging, building communities, NFS, high availability
Passion: ice hockey, cost disruptions, discovering unknown relationships, irrational numbers
Favorite Gadget: Koyono pocket t-shirt, home cell repeater.
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/stern/

Jim Grisanzio
Senior Program Manager, OpenSolaris Engineering Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: Building OpenSolaris Communities
Passion: Taking photos of OpenSolaris developers around the world.
Favorite Gadget: Canon EOS SLR Cameras
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/

Liang Chen

Expertise: Large scale application architecture and parallel programming.
Favorite Activity: Reading, Hiking and playing GO, ancient strategic game.
Favorite Book: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond.
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/swdeveloper/

Greg Bollella
Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.


Expertise: Algorithms and software architectures that support the deterministic execution of logic within general-purpose operating systems and virtual machines
Claim to Fame: Father of real-time Java
Passion: Bicycle racing, a passion he acquired while working in France.
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/

Tim Bray
Distinguished Engineer, Director of Web Technologies, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: Has written many software applications, including Bonnie, a Unix file system, benchmarking tool, Lark, the first XML Processor, and APE the Atom Protocol Exerciser.
Blog: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/

David Trindade
Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.


Expertise: The application of statistics to solve problems in industry, especially those involving reliability and quality.
Passion: Solving problems and teaching statistics, reliability, DOE, and SPC.

Radia Perlman
Distinguished Engineer, Sun Fellow and Ambassador, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: Security, Routing, Distributed Algorithms
Claim to Fame: Referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet'
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/

Dave Edstrom
Distinguished Engineer , Technical Director and the Chief Techhnologist for the Americas' Software Practice, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: All aspects of the software practice
What I Believe in: The importance of HANDS ON TECHICAL TRAINING aka HOTTS
Passion: His 1998 Corvette
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/DaveEdstrom/

Jason T. Carolan
Distinguished Engineer, Director of Technical Initiatives, Sun Microsystems Inc. Global Systems Engineering

Expertise: Systems Architecture and "Cloud" Infrastructure
Passion: Systemics
Favorite Gadget: Garmin Edge 705 or my iPhone 3G—its a tie.
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/jasoncatsun

David Weaver
Principal Engineer, UltraSPARC Architecture and Principal Evangelist, OpenSPARC , Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: Microprocessor Architecture, specifically SPARC instruction set architecture (ISA)
Hobbies: Avid photographer, instrument-rated private pilot
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/dweaver/

Arshan Poursohi
Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: Swarm technologies, distributed systems, wireless sensor networks, walking the line between hardware development and software development
Passion: Applying cutting edge technologies to solve real world problems, for those that like using computers but more importantly those that don't
Favorite Gadget: SunSPOT

Roman Strobl
Technical Evangelist on the NetBeans project, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: OpenSolaris
Passion: Evangelism of OpenSolaris
Favorite Gadget: Nintendo Wii
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/observatory

David Botterill
Technical Evangelist on the NetBeans project, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: NetBeans, Web Development, JavaServer Faces, Distributed Computing
Passion: Coffee
Favorite Gadget: Leatherman Squirt P4
Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/david/

Eric Klein
Vice President, Java Marketing, Sun Microsystems Inc.


Expertise: Creating cool consumer electronic devices and platforms that delight and excite real people
Passion: Geeking on solutions at the intersection of mobile, consumer electronics, location, and gaming
Favorite Gadget: My Mac Pro
Blog: http://www.ericklein.com/

Pratima Amonkar
Technical Evangelist on the NetBeans project, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Expertise: Learning and Education Services
Passion: Music (I love to sing, much to the discomfort of everyone around me)
Favorite Gadget: My 5.1 channel, Onkyo TXSR 503 music system

David McElfresh
Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.


Expertise: Reliability Physics/Physics of Failures, Optoelectronic Materials, Physical and Chemical Characterization Techniques, and Structured Problem Solving
Passion: Cheryl Ladd, Understanding how things work at a mechanistic level, Surfing and Cheryl Ladd