Christian Thalinger
Chris Thalinger is a software engineer working on Java Virtual Machines for more than 13 years. His main expertise is in compiler technology with just-in-time compilation in particular. Initially being involved with the CACAO and GNU Classpath projects, the focus shifted to OpenJDK as soon as Sun Microsystems made the JDK open-source. Ever since Chris has worked on the HotSpot JVM at Sun, Oracle and now at Twitter.