Maximillian Arruda

Maximillian has been involved with software development since 2003. He is a Software Engineer, Developer Advocate, open-source enthusiast, Committer of the Jakarta NoSQL specification and Eclipse JNoSQL project, the latter of which is an implementation of the Jakarta NoSQL and Jakarta Data specifications. Maximillian is also a Jakarta EE Contributor and Ambassador. Maximillian is also a JUG leader at SouJava (The Java Users Society), one of the world's largest Java User Groups Community, and an Oracle ACE Associate. His international speaking experience includes: Jakarta Tech Talks; GeeCON 2023 Prague; EclipseCON 2023 Germany; Oracle DevLive SP 2024 and GeeCON 2024 Kraków. Maximillian enjoys learning and helping developers by organizing, participating, and speaking at tech events and meetup community events. Besides liking tech stuff, he loves martial arts, especially Shotokan Karate - he is 1st DAN level and teaches in the school that his association is part of. He follows the "family first" philosophy! He highly enjoys playing video games with his sons: Pietro and Giulliano. Of course, he loves standing with his wife: Maira.