Ben Evans

Ben Evans is a Java Champion and Senior Principal Software Engineer at IBM, where he is the Technical Lead for Observability for Red Hat Cloud Native Runtimes. Previously he was Lead Architect for Instrumentation at New Relic, and co-founded jClarity, a performance tools startup acquired by Microsoft.

He has also worked as Chief Architect for Listed Derivatives at Deutsche Bank and as Senior Technical Instructor for Morgan Stanley. He served for 6 years on the Java Community Process Executive Committee, helping define new Java standards.

Ben is the author of eight books, including "Optimizing Cloud Native Java", “Java in a Nutshell” and the “The Well-Grounded Java Developer” and writes regularly for Oracle's Java Magazine and other industry publications. He speaks regularly at conferences worldwide.