Officers, Board, and Staff

Officers & Board

President - Mary Grygleski

Mary Grygleski’s avatar Mary is a passionate Developer Evangelist and Software Engineer who has been riding the tech wave since the early 90’s, starting with Unix/C, then Java and Open source, Cloud, and now with GenAI. She is a very active member of the software community.

Chairman of the Board - Bob Paulin

Bob Paulin’s avatar Bob Paulin is an independent consultant and speaker that has been developing open source software for the past 10 years. Bob has presented at large international conferences such as ApacheCon, JavaOne and Devnexus. He frequently shares his knowledge and opinions on the Java Pub House and Java Off Heap podcasts. Bob is actively involved in the Chicago Java User Group (CJUG) and CJUG4Kids presenter/organizer. Bob is a passionate member of the ASF and donates his time to Apache Felix and Apache Tika as a committer and PMC respectively. When not coding, Bob enjoys coaching football, robotics, and spending time with his wife and 4 kids.

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Videographer - Cheh Hoo

Public Relations Officer - Nick Saldana

Videographer - Arunava (Ron) Majumdar

Staff (on leave / sabbatical)

Community Officer - Josh Austin

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Meeting Director - Shashank Bharadwaj

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Past Volunteers

President Emeritus - Freddy Guime

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Board Member Emeritus - Cedric Hurst

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Past President (2019) - Janine Patterson

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Past Board member - Josh Juneau

Past Staff Member - Logan Kulinski

Past Secretary of the Board - Matt Sicker

Past Board Member - Michael Minella

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Past Community Leader - Svetlana Levitan

Svetlana Levitan’s Avatar Svetlana Levitan has been a Software Engineer implementing statistical and machine learning algorithms in Java and C++ since 2000. She is also working on open standards for machine learning model deployment PMML and ONNX. In 2018 Svetlana became a Developer Advocate with IBM Center for Open-source Data and AI Technologies, a meetup organizer and conference presenter. She loves learning new technologies and applying Machine Learning approaches to solving practical problems.

Past Board Member - Todd Ginsberg

Todd Ginsberg’s Avatar Todd Ginsberg is a Principal Software Developer at Netspend, a payments company in Austin, TX where he is responsible for prototypes, experiments, and proofs of concept. Todd has been writing in Java since 1995, and Kotlin since 2016. When not programming, he enjoys reading, walking/hiking, doughnuts, and Formula 1.