Welcome to the new Java Champion: Vinicius Senger
Vinicius Senger is the founder of Globalcode, a company teaching programming to trainers and professionals.
He has 20 years of experience in programming. His first Java app ran in HPUX capturing SNMP data from the network and storing in Sybase. He did a number of projects with J2EE for financial services and banks using web components, EJB, JMS and many different types of architectures using JSF, Seam, Spring, etc.
In addition, he wrote programs on embedded devices and created the 2011 Duke's Choice Award project called jHome Automation that uses Java EE to provide home automation using different devices and communication protocols. He is dedicated to developing Java Embedded and Java EE projects. Last year, he implemented Java Embedded for a sailboat for JavaOne 2014. He just launched Combike project, which is a Smart Helmet for bikers using camera, GPS, accelerometer and a social network behind.
He is a frequent speaker at many Java conferences around the world including Devoxx, JFokus, and The Developer Conference in Brazil that he co-organizes. He has been a JavaOne rockstar speaker for several years.
He is a regular contributor to the Java Magazine and wrote an article about device I/O for the November 2014 issue. He also authored an IoT video series in English and Portuguese on YouTube.com/java
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