Women continue to excel as developers, and we can see more and more women in the field every day. The Java/JVM community has plenty of talented women and we believe that it is time for them to receive some recognition for their work.
We have come up with a short list of women that had an impact in this community. The list only contains a few names, so feel free to tell us yours.
Heather VanCura
Heather is very dedicated when it comes to the JCP program and she is in fact Chair and Director of the JCP Program at Oracle. She worked at the JCP for 18 years and she had various functions. She also cares about women inclusion in tech.
Her goal is to help the JCP evolve and she aims to bring more diversity. Heather is an international speaker and she participated to various conferences such as Devoxx, JFokus, OSCON and the JavaOne conferences. At the moment she is living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jessica Kerr
Jessica has almost 20 years of experience, and she used almost everything, from Elm, Ruby, Scala, to Java and Clojure. She is a speaker and she talks about numerous issues related to the developing industry. Jessica is also a blogger and a podcaster from time to time. If you want to find out more about functional programming you should watch one of her talks.
Mala Gupta
If you have a Java programmer certification exam, you can always trust Mala’s books. Her writing is very clear and there are also pictures which can help you understand the information. Mala also founded eJavaGuru.com where you can find courses for Oracle certifications.
Katharine Beaumont
Katharine can do everything, including law, mathematics and science. At the moment she is living on a farm, but she continues to work as a developer. She is one of the most important names in the industry. She has worked on machine learning, Big Data and medical software. She also has plenty of experience with Ruby, Python and Matlab.
Recently her talks focused on AI, machine learning and neural networks, but she covered many other topics as well. She used to be the Community and Content Manager for Voxxed.
Jeanne Boyarsky
Jeanne develops at a bank in New York City and she has been doing this for more than 12 years. She is also a senior moderator at CodeRanch.com, but you can also find her mentoring the programming division of a FIRST robotics team.
Jeanne also writes books which are ideal if you are studying for your Java 8 certification exams. Jeanne was present in two talks: Intro to Mutation Testing and Junit 5 Hands-On Lab, which took place this year at JavaOne. If you take a look on YouTube you will be able to find some of her presentations as well.
Trisha Gee
Trisha is well known for her Java achievements. She has created numerous Java applications that are used in various industries. You can also find Trisha blogging if you want to learn more about her experiences. She is a Java Champion, a MongoDB Master, a member of the London Java Community and the leader of the Sevilla Java User Group.
Linda van der Pal
If you heard about Duchess, you already know who Linda is. She is the founder of Duchess, but she has plenty of other achievements as well. She has been a Java developer for 16 years and she is a co-organizer of Devoxx for kids in Netherlands. At the moment, Linda is a developer at Finalist.
Henry Lares is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including Tech Crunch and the Huffington Post. In regards to academics, Henry earned an engineering degree from Apex Technical School. Henry has a passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech.