Werner Keil

Werner is a Cloud Architect, Jakarta EE and Microservice expert. Helping Global 500 Enterprises across industries and leading IT vendors. He worked for over 30 years as IT Manager, PM, Coach, SW architect, developer and consultant for Finance, Mobile, Media, Transport and Public sector. Werner develops enterprise systems using Java, Java/Jakarta EE, Oracle, IBM, Spring or Microsoft technologies, JavaScript, Node, Angular, dynamic or functional languages. Besides working for major companies, he runs his own consultancy CATMedia and in his spare time, runs and supports open-source projects, writes song lyrics, novels, screenplays, technical books and articles. Werner is Committer at Apache Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Babel Language Champion, UOMo Project Lead and active member of the Java Community Process in JSRs like 321 (Trusted Java), 344 (JSF 2.2), 354 (Money, also Maintenance Lead), 358/364 (JCP.next), 362 (Portlet 3), 363 (Unit-API 1), 365 (CDI 2), 366 (Java EE 8), 375 (Java EE Security), 380 (Bean Validation 2), 385 (Unit-API 2, also Spec Lead) and was the longest serving Individual Member of the Executive Committee for 9 years in a row till 2017. Since its inception, Werner has been the Committer representative in the Jakarta EE Specification Committee.