Stephen Colebourne

Stephen Colebourne is a hands-on Technical Architect at SITA ATS Ltd, where he oversees the development of e-commerce systems for airlines. He was elected Java Champion and a JavaOne RockStar. He has been developing in Java ,since version 1.0 and has both client and server side experience.In his spare time he keeps himself very busy. Dates and times have become a passion, and he is co-spec lead of JSR-310 Date and Time API and project lead of Joda-Time. The second major area of interest is Java language change, where he is the co-author of FCM closures and founder of the Kijaro project where language change ideas can be implemented in javac. Finally, he is a member of the Apache Software Foundation following work on Commons Collections, Lang and IO. Stephen is now a regular conference speaker and a frequent blogger at jroller.com.

Alef Arendsen

Alef Arendsen is Principal Consultant and founder at Spring Source. Originally, Alef joined the development team of the Spring Framework in early 2003. Currently, Alef is responsible for several strategic Interface21 clients and he helps them achieve great results using some of the Spring Portfolio products. Furthermore, Alef is responsible for several activities related to technical marketing. Alef is based out of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Frederic Simon

Frederic Simon founded AlphaCSP in 1998 as CTO and Chief Architect. His development experience goes back to 1992, and he has been a Java and JEE consultant since 1999. His Open Source activities are with Jfrog and setllarium4Java.

Yoav Landman

Yoav joined AlphaCSP in 1Q 2002 after serving in various technical lead and management positions in Israel and overseas organizations, including Versata Inc., Sausage Software, and Attunity. As one of AlphaCSP's principal consultants, Yoav manages and escorts the development of large-scale Java and JEE based production systems and plays a central role in assimilating cutting-edge open source technologies into projects.

Dmitry Jemerov

Dmitry Jemerov, IntelliJ IDEA development lead, JetBrains Since joining JetBrains in 2003, Dmitry has worked on Omea, IntelliJ IDEA and a number of other projects. Currently he leads the development of new products based on the IntelliJ IDEA platform. Dmitry has been a speaker at several conferences, including JavaOne, JavaPolis and JavaEdge 2007. He lives in St.Petersburg, Russia.

Roi Aldaag

Roi is a Java Architect and Senior Consultant at AlphaCSP. Roi has twelve years of Java experience as a Developer, Team Leader, Development Manager, and Consultant. Former CEO and founder of the startup company Arcode Software Solutions, Ltd., he holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University. He takes his Java black with no sugar.

Ophir Radnitz

Ophir Radnitz is a Java Technology Consultant at AlphaCSP. He has been working with Java technologies for over six years and as an AlphaCSP consultant for the last two years . During this time, he has been exposed to a wide array of projects with very diverse sets of requirements and constraints. These projects vary from large scale deployments to start-up application tools and techniques. He specializes in domain modeling and design from the entity level to process definition and business rule execution.

Baruch Sadogursky

Baruch Sadogursky is AlphaCSP's Training Center Manager, and has overall responsibility for AlphaCSP training activities. Baruch is also one of AlphaCSP's consultants and architects. Baruch has more than seven years experience in Java (developing, mentoring, consulting and training), the last four of which were with AlphaCSP. He has worked with some major AlphaCSP clients in various development and consulting positions, developing and delivering most of the AlphaCSP courses.

Ori Dar

Ori Dar is a Java Architect and Consultant at AlphaCSP. Ori has more than eight years experience in Java as a Developer, Team Leader, and Consultant. Ori joined AlphaCSP in 2007, and has since been working with some of AlphaCSP's clients in various development and consulting positions. Prior to joining AlphaCSP, Ori held a few technical lead positions in the Israeli high-tech industry.

Roi Aldaag

Roi Aldaag is a Java Architect and Consultant at AlphaCSP. Roi has eight years of Java experience as a Developer, Team Leader, Development Manager, and Consultant. Former CEO and founder of the startup company Arcode Software Solutions, Ltd., he holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University. He takes his Java black with extra sugar.

Avishay Halperen

Avishay Halperen is a Site Manger and Java Consultant at AlphaCSP. He joined AlphaCSP in 1Q 2004 and has been practicing Java ever since as a Developer, Team Leader, and Site Manager on one of the largest projects of AlphaCSP. Specializing in various JEE and J2SE frameworks and infrastructures, he is also known as "The Doctor".

Alex Waisburd

Alex Weisburd is a Consultant at AlphaCSP. Alex joined the AlphaCSP team as a Java novice to the special JTeam project in January 2001. Currently, Alex is managing a project at the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation - NITE, based in Jerusalem.

Yoav Aharoni

Yoav Aharoni is a Web Consultant at AlphaCSP. Yoav joined AlphaCSP in 4Q 2006. Aside from being a Java developer, Yoav brings to AlphaCSP a vast knowledge of web technology. Continuously exploring, Yoav keeps himself updated with the newest and hottest innovations the web has to offer today.

Nadav Wiener

Nadav Wiener is a Consultant at AlphaCSP. Prior to joining AlphaCSP this year, Nadav held a succession of architectural and team leading roles in the telecom industry, working on heavy lifting portions of software machinery. Nadav has been working on Java-based enterprise systems for the past five years.

Guy Nir

Guy Nir has been a professional in research and development for approximately 20 years, focusing mainly on enterprise applications within the Java domain for the past eight years. . Since joining AlphaCSP a year ago, Guy has participated in a number of enterprise projects, ranging from service-oriented systems to back-office network management systems (NMS).

Gilad Garon

Gilad Garon is a Software Engineer at AlphaCSP. Gilad has been working with Java for over four years as a developer. Since joining AlphaCSP in 2007, Gilad has specialized in build architecture, web framework technologies, and application servers.

Yossi Shaul

Yossi is a Senior Developer working with Java technologies for the last five years. Yossi joined AlphaCSP in 2005 and since then has been involved in numerous projects for various small and large clients such as Viola Networks, NITE, IDI, Cisco, and others. Yossi has gained vast experience with enterprise scale applications, build technologies, software engineering, and agile methodologies. Yossi is an active committer in several open-source projects. Yossi holds a BA (Magna Cum Laude) in Computer Science from the Open University.