Champion

Julien Dubois

GitHub

Julien Dubois is a Java Champion and a Principal Manager at Microsoft. With his team of world-class developer advocates, Julien works directly with the engineering groups to improve how developers can leverage AI using Microsoft and GitHub solutions.

With over 25 years of experience in the Java ecosystem, Julien is best known as the creator of JHipster, an Open Source platform with 22,000+ GitHub stars that revolutionized how developers build Spring Boot applications. His recent work focuses on bringing enterprise-grade AI capabilities to Java through his contributions to LangChain4j and Spring AI.

Julien is a recognized thought leader in the Java community, having spoken at over 200 international conferences including Devoxx, Spring One, and Microsoft Build. He authored Spring par la pratique, the first French book on the Spring Framework, which became a bestseller. His presentations typically feature live-coding sessions and practical workshops that help developers immediately apply new technologies.

Badges 15

Talks 19

  1. Devoxx Belgium 2026

    BootUI, the missing developer console for Spring Boot and Quarkus

    October 2026Development Practices

  2. Devoxx Belgium 2026

    223 Pull Requests in 11 Days: The Recipe for Building Real Software with AI Agents

    October 2026Development Practices

  3. Devoxx Belgium 2025

    Panel Discussion: LangChain4j Turns Two - What We’ve Learned and What’s Next

    October 2025GenAI & Beyond

  4. Devoxx Belgium 2025

    Building AI agents with Structured Outputs, Function Calling, and MCP

    October 2025GenAI & Beyond

  5. Devoxx France 2025

    Construire une IA agentique avec les Structured Outputs, Function Calling et MCP

    April 2025Data & AI

  6. Devoxx Belgium 2024

    Panel Discussion: LangChain4j, a year later.

    October 2024Data & (Gen)AI

  7. Devoxx Belgium 2024

    Build your own enterprise ChatGPT with Open Source

    October 2024Data & (Gen)AI

  8. Devoxx Belgium 2024

    Easy RAG with LangChain4J and Docker

    October 2024Data & (Gen)AI▶ Watch

  9. Devoxx France 2024

    Comprendre l'IA: construisez votre propre ChatGPT d'entreprise avec LangChain4J

    April 2024Data & AI

  10. Devoxx France 2024

    Meet with an OSS project: LangChain4j

    April 2024Data & AI

  11. Devoxx Belgium 2022

    What is JHipster Lite and why should you care?

    October 2022Development Practices▶ Watch

  12. Devoxx UK 2022

    Purple Pound - Accessibility in the UK and becoming a Master Accessible Author.

    May 2022People & Culture

  13. Devoxx Belgium 2019

    Spring on azure

    November 2019Cloud, Containers & Infrastructure▶ Watch

  14. Voxxed Days Microservices 2019

    Deploying spring boot microservices on azure

    October 2019Cloud, Containers & Infrastructure▶ Watch

  15. Devoxx Belgium 2018

    Jhipster 5 - what's new and noteworthy

    November 2018Server Side Java▶ Watch

  16. Devoxx France 2018

    Migrer à spring boot 2 lorsque l'on a une "vraie" application

    April 2018java

  17. Devoxx France 2018

    Jhipster: what's new in our spring/summer 2018 collection

    April 2018java

  18. Devoxx Belgium 2017

    Easy microservices with jhipster

    November 2017Server Side Java▶ Watch

  19. Devoxx Belgium 2017

    Jhipster bof

    November 2017Modern Web