Something Special Making it EVEN better.

About Me

I'm an engineer and passionate whiteboarder based in Berlin, Germany. I currently work for Nokia's Location and Commerce division as a Software Architect making maps and stuff to support geo products. My current focus is leading an analytics team through the maze of data that is produced by location services, making awesome visualizations and datasets to drive new products and features. I make software with things I'm keen on: internet technologies, agile methodologies and development, openness (people, source and information), parallel and distributed computing, lightweight architectures and development, analytics, messaging, REST, Java, *nix, devops, pragmatism, big pictures, interaction, experiences and oh so much more!

Contact

info (at) joshdevins (dot) net
Berlin, Germany

Social Web: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub
Blogs: Something Special (this one), Ex-pat Newlyweds, Tumblr
Skype: joshdevins
Google: joshdevins

Projects

  • Several projects on GitHub. Go look there.
  • Lego Manhunt - Lego Manhunt is a location based game built in Ruby on Rails. We are currently planning on launching a limited beta in late summer/fall 2010.
  • Jitr - Jitr is a JUnit Integration Test Runner. It allows your web application integration tests to easily run against a lightweight web container in the same JVM as your tests.
  • Spring in Action, 3rd Ed, Reviewer - Official reviewer of Spring in Action, 3rd Ed from Manning Publications.
  • Mule in Action, Reviewer - Official reviewer of Mule in Action from Manning Publications.
  • Mattress Framework - The Mattress Framework is a Java and Spring based, lightweight and extensible REST framework. It is loosely related to the JSR 311 initiative, but is not compliant since much of the specification has been deemed far too complex or unnecessary. (inactive)

Conferences and Training

I try to attend lots of different conferences and training events, even speaking at some when I have the chance. Here's the current list.

Reader

Looking for Josh Devins the photographer? That was me back in Vancouver, but here's my photography website anyways.

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