πΉ Been writing software for over 40 years
πΉ Born and raised in France
πΉ Moved to the US when offered a job at Apple in my early twenties
πΉ Started and sold a few companies
πΉ Did a lot of consulting
πΉ Ran one of the first daily Linkblog, mostly focused on Java
πΉ Wrote a weekly column for the Java Developer's Journal
πΉ Cancer survivor
πΉ Time's Person of the Year in 2006