Chris Dennis works remotely from Martinsburg, WV, as a developer for Terracotta, Inc. At Terracotta, he works on both the core Terracotta platform, and also as a contributor to the Ehcache project. Prior to this, he worked on the JPC x86 emulator at Oxford University. He has spoken twice at JavaOne (receiving a speaker Rockstar Award in 2007), and also at StrangeLoop 2009. He was also a co–author for the O'Reilly book “Beautiful Architecture.”