Champion

Jonathan Vila

Sonar

Java Champion, Organiser at BarcelonaJUG and cofounder of JBCNConf and DevBcn conferences in Barcelona.

Currently working as a Developer Advocate in Java at Sonar (SonarQube), focused on Code Quality, AI & Security.

I have worked as a (paid) developer since the first release of The Secret of Monkey Island, about 30 years ago using Go on Kubernetes for a Service Mesh layer on top of Istio | Java on Kubernetes for K8s Operator, Rest API, using Quarkus, GraalVM, Apache Camel | PHP | VB | Python | Pascal | Delphi | C

I am very interested in simulated reality, psychology, philosophy, and Java.

Badges 9

Talks 7

  1. Devoxx Greece 2026

    Leadership & Personal Branding

    April 2026People & Culture

  2. Devoxx Greece 2026

    AI Code Reality: LLMs Help But Can Hurt Quality and Security

    April 2026Development Practices

  3. Devoxx Morocco 2025

    AI-Driven Productivity in the Development Lifecycle: AI gives you time but not confidence

    November 2025Development Practices

  4. Voxxed Days Bucharest 2025

    Code Quality in the AI era, needed more than ever.

    March 2025Development Practices

  5. Devoxx Morocco 2024

    Code Quality in the AI era, needed more than ever.

    October 2024Development Practices

  6. Voxxed Days Brussels 2024

    Clean code, in the AI era. A story of monsters, heroes and victories

    May 2024DevOps, Agile, Methodology & Testing

  7. Devoxx UK 2022

    Migrating a Spring Boot app to Quarkus, challenge accepted

    May 2022Architecture