Finding success

Ivar Grimstad: I think the real breakthrough was getting accepted for JavaOne in 2013. Suddenly, other conferences were reaching out to me just because they wanted JavaOne speakers. Getting that conference under my belt was important. Then the ball started rolling and my hands became free; I could more or less just submit wherever I wanted.

Geertjan Wielenga: What are the topics you mostly talk about?

Ivar Grimstad: Nowadays, I usually talk about MicroProfile or Jakarta EE. I have done some talks on serverless as well. Sometimes my topics are related to the Java Specification Requests (JSRs) active on the JCP.

Geertjan Wielenga: How did you get started in the tech industry? What's your background?

Ivar Grimstad: I came out of university after studying systems engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I'm a decent programmer, but my strengths are in systems engineering. I started working as a consultant and got exposed...