Bio

Chandra Guntur is a Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow at BNY Mellon. Chandra was awarded the Distinguished Engineer in 2020 at BNY Mellon. Chandra has technology experience in insurance, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, services and finance sectors since 1996, and as a technologist in the financial services industry, since 2003. Chandra started programming with Java in 1998. ▪Java Champion Nominated/Elected in July 2019 ▪JUG Leader He is a Java User Group (JUG) Leader, and helps run one of the largest groups, NYJavaSIG and leads the NYJavaSIG Hands-On-Workshops (HOW), conducting code workshops and Katas on core Java features. Chandra also volunteers with ACGNJ, the New Jersey Java SIG. ▪JCP EC Representative Chandra is a representative for BNY Mellon in the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. ▪Public Speaker (Java) Frequent speaker at Java meetups, user groups, and key conferences including Oracle CodeOne, Oracle Code NY, QCon New York, Devnexus, GIDS India. Technology skills Java, Kotlin, Spring, Spring Boot/Cloud, IntelliJ plugins, SDLC, Services, Microservices, Containers, Cloud infrastructure, private cloud development, databases (limited, mostly NoSQL DBs currently), Smalltalk (when possible), Android programming, Atlassian products APIs, software and application architecture, as well as in Design and Best Practices. Soft skills Managing medium/large teams (both locally as well as multi-region global teams), goal-setting, ability to independently prioritize, positive attitude, teamwork skills, mentoring people, project management. Adaptive to various waterfall and agile/scrum methodologies. Strives to teach and learn by sharing, be it in form of presentations, documents, question/answers or discussions. Github: https://github.com/c-guntur Twitter: https://twitter.com/CGuntur Speaker Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/cguntur Motto: docendo discimus