Ben Evans

Ben Evans is an author, architect and educator. He is currently Observability Lead and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat 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.

He is a Java Champion and 3-time JavaOne Rockstar Speaker. Ben is the author of six books, including "Optimizing Cloud Native Java" (O'Reilly), the new editions of “Java in a Nutshell” and the recently-updated “The Well-Grounded Java Developer” (Maning) and his technical articles are read by thousands of developers every month.

Ben is a regular speaker and educator on topics such as the Java platform, systems architecture, performance and concurrency for companies and conferences all over the world.