Steve Millidge

Steve Millidge is the founder of Payara, and is a Steering committee member of Jakarta EE and a founder member of MicroProfile. At Payara Steve heads up the company with a particular focus on product direction and strategy.

Steve has spoken at a number of events about the performance and scalability of Java systems, including Java One, JBoss World, UK Oracle User Group Conference and Special Interest Groups, JaxLondon, GeeCon, EclipseCon, and Jakarta EE Live Stream; he regularly presents technical workshops and webinars on Jakarta EE, Microprofile and big scale Java.

Steve has been working with Java since pre-1.0 and has worked on large scale distributed applications and application servers since the 1990s. Before founding Payara Steve ran a consultancy company providing advice and guidance on architecting, building and running at scale large web applications on Java technologies. Steve has a keen interest in non-functional attributes of big scale Java.