Jarek Pałka

He has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years as a database administrator, programmer, architect, manager and “onsite disaster engineer”. He took part in small, medium and nonsensically large projects carried out according to the rules “Waterfall”, Agile and in the absence of any methodologies, always with the same effect. Which led him to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter what you do as long as you do it in the simplest possible way and use the right tools to do the work for you. Recently he’s been spending too much time exploring JVM’s best-kept secrets, reading about managed runtimes, parsers and interpreters. From time to time, you can hear his low-quality jokes about architecture at conferences in Poland. He is also the author of a blog http://geekyprimitives.com/, the occasional dictator in conferences program committees, brand, and full-time benchmarking infrastructure engineer at Neo4j.