Java Champion Monica Beckwith (Austin, TX) has a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is a Java performance engineer specializing in OpenJDK/OracleJDK HotSpot. She has made various contributions to HotSpot’s Virtual Machine (Java VM) and Garbage Collectors (GCs). Monica provides consultancy through Code Karam LLC and has worked with Oracle/Sun and AMD. She led Oracle’s Garbage First Garbage Collector performance team.
Monica has co-authored the ‘Java Performance Companion’ book and is currently working on ‘Inside Java 9’ to be released in early 2018 by Addison Wesley. She is also the author of ‘Advanced Java Performance: Hotspot GC Tuning LiveLessons’.
Monica, a JavaOne RockStar, is a regular speaker at various universities, institutions, conferences, and podcasts. She also frequently publishes articles related to the field of Java and Java VM/GC internals.
Monica is passionate about STEM and loves volunteering her time in coaching kids in the field of (Java) programming and more recently, Lego Robotics.
You can follow Monica on Twitter @mon_beck and connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicabeckwith