Likes to inspire developers to improve the craftmanship of their solutions, engineer their systems for simplicity and performance, and enjoy their work more by being creative and innovative. Has a popular blog «Vanilla Java» which has had over 3 million page views, is 3rd on StackOverflow.com for Java with over 10K answers. Founder of the Performance Java User’s Group with 900 members. Lead developer of the OpenHFT project which includes support for off heap memory such as embedded databases supporting billions of keys-values with 1 micro-second update latency, thread pinning and low latency persisted IPC (as low as 100 nano-seconds)».
