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Francesco Nigro

IBM

I've been working for many years in the computer field. In the last 15 years I've cultivated a strong passion in Java development and the under the hood details of OpenJDK, C and (x86) Assembly.
Big fan of DDD (Domain Driven Design) world, I've developed several Event-Sourcing high performance solutions in the medical and IoT field.
I'm an active member of various online communities on performance (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mechanical-sympathy), Senior Principal (Software) Performance Engineer and Performance Lead for Red Hat/IBM on Quarkus, Red Hat Top Inventor (2019).
I've collaborated to different projects related high-performance computing both as committer and contributors eg Quarkus, Vert-x, Netty committer, JCTools author, PMC of ActiveMQ Apache Artemis (Messaging Broker), HdrHistogram, JGroups-raft, ...

Badges 9

Talks 9

  1. Voxxed Days Zurich 2026

    Reactive ❤️ Loom: A Forbidden Love Story

    March 2026Java

  2. Voxxed Days Ticino 2026

    Reactive ❤️ Loom: A Forbidden Love Story

    February 2026Java

  3. Voxxed Days Ticino 2025

    Benchmarketing fallacies: the 100 shades of truth

    January 2025Backend Development

  4. Devoxx Belgium 2024

    Measure, don’t guess: benchmarking stories from the trenches

    October 2024java▶ Watch

  5. Voxxed Days Ticino 2024

    Measure, don’t guess: a real-world benchmarking story

    January 2024Java

  6. Voxxed Days Ticino 2024

    Time-Traveling Bugs: How a Two-Decade-Old Issue Still Haunts Software Scalability

    January 2024Java

  7. Devoxx Belgium 2023

    Taming performance issues into the wild: a practical guide to JVM profiling

    October 2023java▶ Watch

  8. Devoxx UK 2023

    Cracking the scalability wall

    May 2023java

  9. Devoxx Greece 2023

    Taming performance issues into the wild: a practical guide to JVM profiling

    May 2023java