Volker Simonis
Principal Software Engineer @ Amazon & OpenJDK MemberExperiences
present2019
Principal Software Engineer
Amazon Walldorf, Germany- Working on Amazon Corretto.
20192014
Development Expert
SAP SE Walldorf, Germany- Launched and led the SapMachine project.
- Managed SAP - Oracle Java alliance.
20132008
Senior Developer
SAP SE Walldorf, Germany- Porting SAP JVM to platforms like HPUX/IA64, AIX, Linux/PPC64.
- Initiated and drove SAP's OpenJDK engagement.
20072005
Software Developer
SAP SE Walldorf, Germany- Worked on the HPUX/PARISC port of the SAP JVM 5/6
20052004
Market Development Engineering
Sun Microsystems Walldorf, Germany- Ported the MaxDB database to Solaris10/AMD64
20021998
Freelance Software Developer
Debis Systemhaus / T-Systems Stuttgart, Germany- Developed a client-server system for NormMaster / ImageMaster.
Projects / Activities
present2009
OpenJDK
https://openjdk.java.net- Project lead of the PowerPC/AIX and s390x porting projects.
- Member of the OpenJDK Members, HotSpot, Build, Porters and Vulnerability groups.
- Contributed more than 210 and reviewed more than 220 changes.
present2014
Java Community Process (JCP)
https://jcp.org
present1999
Conferences / Talks / Publications
YouTube Channel- Passionate speaker (JavaOne, JavaZone, JAX, JPoint, Joker, GeekOut, GeeCon, FOSDEM, ... ).
- List of publications (outdated).
Education
20041998
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Computer Science
Universität Tübingen Tübingen, Germany- A framework for processing and presenting parallel text corpora
- Teaching assistant and system administrator.
19981992
Diplom Informatiker (Master in Computer Science)
University Tübingen Tübingen, Germany- Java Object Serialization in C++ (in German)
19911984
Abitur (High school graduation)
Längenfeldgymnasium, Balingen Balingen, Germany
19841977