Champion

Simon Maple

Tessl

Simon Maple is the Head of Developer Relations at Tessl, and AI Native Dev co-host. Previously, Simon was the Field CTO, and VP Developer Relations at Snyk, ZeroTurnaround, and IBM. He became a Java Champion in 2014, JavaOne Rockstar speaker in 2014 and 2017, Duke’s Choice award winner, Virtual JUG founder and organiser, and London Java Community co-leader.

Badges 13

Talks 25

Devoxx Poland 2026
Context is King
June 2026Data & AI
Devoxx Poland 2026
Working Effectively with AI Coding Agents
June 2026Data & AI
Devoxx Belgium 2025
Spec Driven Development Why your prompt chaos won’t scale
October 2025GenAI & Beyond
Devoxx Belgium 2025
Spec-Driven Development BOF
October 2025GenAI & Beyond
Devoxx UK 2025
Ctrl+Alt+Evolve: The Part we Play in an AI-Native Future
May 2025People & Culture▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2025
Prompt Engineering in Action: Can We Get AI to Code What We Want?
May 2025Data & AI
Devoxx UK 2024
Breaking AI: Live coding and hacking applications with Generative AI
May 2024Security▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2022
Levelling up secure development in a post-Log4Shell world
May 2022Security
Devoxx Poland 2019
Hands-on java security workshop: how safe is your application?
June 2019Security▶ Watch
Devoxx Poland 2019
Live hack: finding security vulnerabilities before they find you!
June 2019Security▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2019
Five hacks in five minutes
May 2019Security
Devoxx UK 2019
Mini lab - hands-on hacking: how safe is your application?
May 2019Security
Devoxx UK 2019
Securing serverless by breaking in
May 2019Security▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2018
Switching on devsecops
November 2018Architecture & Security▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2018
Java application security the hard way - a workshop for the serious developer
May 2018Security
Devoxx UK 2018
Common vulnerabilities you wish your java app didn't have!
May 2018Security▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2018
The java council
May 2018java▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2017
The java council
November 2017Methodology & Culture▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2017
How Modern SQL Databases Come up with Algorithms that You Would Have Never Dreamed Of (vJUG Live session)
May 2017bigdata
Devoxx UK 2017
The Java Tools and Technology Landscape
May 2017java
Voxxed Days CERN
Forge, Arquillian, Swarm and Spring Boot
February 2017Server Side Java▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2015
The Adventures of running the vJUG!
November 2015Methodology & Culture
Devoxx Belgium 2015
Performance by Numbers
November 2015Methodology & Culture▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2015
The Java Council
November 2015future▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2015
Build it and they will come. But, will they really?
November 2015Methodology & Culture▶ Watch

Simon Maple

Badges 13

Talks 25

Context is King

Working Effectively with AI Coding Agents

Spec Driven Development Why your prompt chaos won’t scale

Spec-Driven Development BOF

Ctrl+Alt+Evolve: The Part we Play in an AI-Native Future

Prompt Engineering in Action: Can We Get AI to Code What We Want?

Breaking AI: Live coding and hacking applications with Generative AI

Levelling up secure development in a post-Log4Shell world

Hands-on java security workshop: how safe is your application?

Live hack: finding security vulnerabilities before they find you!

Five hacks in five minutes

Mini lab - hands-on hacking: how safe is your application?

Securing serverless by breaking in

Switching on devsecops

Java application security the hard way - a workshop for the serious developer

Common vulnerabilities you wish your java app didn't have!

The java council

The java council

How Modern SQL Databases Come up with Algorithms that You Would Have Never Dreamed Of (vJUG Live session)

The Java Tools and Technology Landscape

Forge, Arquillian, Swarm and Spring Boot

The Adventures of running the vJUG!

Performance by Numbers

The Java Council

Build it and they will come. But, will they really?