Mike Yawn is Senior Solutions Architect with Hazelcast. He has over 30 years of industry experience in R&D and Consulting roles with some of the world’s leading tech companies including HP, Oracle, EMC, and eBay. Prior to joining Hazelcast, Mike developed, ported and maintained Java-based technologies, including JVMs, just-in-time compilers, and debuggers. He was the founder and co-chair of SIG JAVA for Interex, the HP International User’s group, during the early days of Java (JDK 1.0 to 1.3)