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.
- Berlin Expert Days - April 2011, Berlin, Germany (speaker - Hadoop: What is Hadoop? What is MapReduce? What's it all good for?)
- Scandinavian Developer Conference SDC - April 2011, Göteborg, Sweden (speaker - What is Hadoop? What is MapReduce? What's it all good for?)
- Hadoop Meetup Berlin - January 2011, Berlin, Germany (speaker - Hadoop at Nokia)
- JAOO - October 2010, Aarhus, Denmark (speaker - Continuous Deployment and DevOps: Deprecating Silos)
- Puppet training (by Puppet Labs) - August 2010, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Buzzwords - June 2010, Berlin, Germany
- QCon London - March 2010, London, England (speaker - Scaling to billions of people and places)
- Ignite Berlin - March 2010, Berlin, Germany (speaker - Lego Manhunt)
- ScaleCamp UK - December 2009, London, England (speaker - From Zero to Lots)
- JAOO - October 2009, Aarhus, Denmark
- SpringSource Hibernate with Spring - July 2009, Berlin, Germany
- Certified Scrum Master (with Ken Schwaber, and a grain of salt) - May, 2009, Berlin, Germany
- SpringSource Certified Professional - May 2009, Berlin, Germany
- SpringSource Core Spring - April 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Web 2.0 Expo - November 2007, Berlin, Germany
- JavaOne and Java University - May 2007, San Francisco, California
- OOPSLA - October 2006, Portland, Oregon
Reader
Looking for Josh Devins the photographer? That was me back in Vancouver, but here's my photography website anyways.
