Introducing Andres Almiray

Andres Almiray is a developer with a passion for Java and Groovy. A Java Champion with more than 20 years of experience in software design and development, he is an enthusiastic speaker and one of the founding members of the Hackergarten community events. In his own words, Andres is a "true believer" in open source, and he supports this by working on projects including the Griffon framework, of which he is a founding member. He served a two-year term on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. Since this interview, Andres has become a product manager at Oracle. Find Andres on Twitter: @aalmiray.

Geertjan Wielenga: Are you an official developer advocate?

Andres Almiray: Yes. For years I didn't officially have that title. I followed the same path as someone in a developer advocate role while remaining in an engineering role. Currently, I'm a principal developer advocate at Gradle. It's a start-up with a well...