José is an assistant professor at the Institut Galilée (Université Paris 13), PhD in applied mathematics from the ENS de Cachan. He has also worked as one of the lead members of the Paris JUG for 6 years, and is a co-founder of Devoxx France.
As a member of the CDI 2.0 Expert Group, he has contributed new ways of handling events, especially in the asynchronous part of the spec. He provided new patterns that have been adopted by the EG.
José has been working as an independent programmer for 20 years and is a well-known Java / Java EE / software craftsmanship expert and trainer. His expertise includes Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere, Glassfish, and the most popular Java EE parts: JPA (Hibernate & Eclipselink), EJB (including version 2), JMS, JTA, the Web tier, and more.
José speaks at conferences, including JavaOne and Devoxx; and writes technical articles for various publications including Java Magazine and Oracle Technology Network. Passionate about education, he publishes MOOC for several companies: Oracle Virtual Technology Summit, Pluralsight, Microsoft Virtual Academy and Voxxed.
His blog: blog.paumard.org/en/ Follow him @josepaumard
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