Entrepreneur, passionate Consultant, Java Champion, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, JUG Leader, Auth0 Ambassador, founder of the Ecuador Java User Group, Java Community Process Associate Member and Java evangelist/trainer; active in twitter at @betosalazar. He is the co-author of the book 'Software Architecture with Spring 5.0'. Alberto has been working for 2 decades creating large scalable and high transaction load systems from military software to banking solutions. He is also a frequent speaker at Java conferences such as Oracle Code One, JBCNConf, Voxxed Days, Oracle Code, Red Hat Summit, JavaOne, Oracle Developer Tour Latam, OTN Tours, and local JUG meetings.
Telematic Engineer, University Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Currently Director of the School of Computing and Telecommunications. Co-founder and organizer of the Java User Group in the Dominican Republic, known as Java Dominicano, Member of The Dominican Free and Open Source Foundation. Co-Organizer of the first event dedicated to the Java platform in the Dominican Republic, JConf Dominicana 2019 (https://jconfdominicana.org). Co-organizer of the Barcamp RD (https://barcamp.org.do/), an exclusive event to present topics related to technologies on the way to its eighth edition in November 2020. In my more than fifteen years of experience I consider myself an evangelist of the Java platform and all its derivatives, where I have taught different courses in different educational centers in the Dominican Republic and supported projects under the platform. Professionally, I am Director of Technology at the company AvatharTech, dedicated to the development and consulting of applications for the country's productive sectors.
Telematics engineer, technologist and open source enthusiast, software developer, Java and Linux Trainer / Lecturer, baseball / softball lover and Latin dance fan. Currently, working at the Dominican Republic Ministry of Finance as a Software Developer.
2014 Linux Training Scholarship Recipient as Developer Do-Gooder. Java Community Process Associate Member, Co-founder of the Dominican Republic JUG (aka Java Dominicano) and member of the organizing staff of JConf Dominicana (https://jconfdominicana.org).
In his leisure time, he writes articles, talks and helps to review technical documentation in the Java Ecosystem and the open source world.
Hillmer is a System Engineer, Java Champion, Oracle GroundBreaker Ambassador, Medellin JUG Leader, Organizer of the Hispanic Community of JUGs, Duke’s Choice Award Winner, Open Source Contributor in project such as Hibernate Validator and Eclipse Collections, and software architect focusing on Java Technologies. In his job he has been both project manager and software architect.
Working at Red Hat as Senior Software Engineer in the Middleware area, but I have worked as a developer since the first release of The Secret of Monkey Island, about 30 years ago. PMP certified by the PMI in Project Management. Also co-leader of the Barcelona Java Users Group and co-founder of the conference JBCNConf in Barcelona. Speaker at Oracle Code One, DevNexus and meetups BarcelonaJUG and MadridJUG.