Next, we would like to introduce Doug Lea, whose life’s work has been devoted to developing the design of Java libraries for concurrency memory management. Doug’s malloc library is widely used by software developers across the world. Doug is currently a professor of computer science and the current head of the computer science department of SUNY Oswego in New York.

For our first episode we would like to introduce Julien Verlaguet. Having been employed at Facebook for almost a decade, Julien worked predominantly as the head open source developer on their type PHP Hack. Julien since continued at Facebook to develop the SKIP language and currently works self-employed as the head open source developer of SKIP.