Aug 18, 2025
Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Trisha
Gee, an author, a Java Champion, and a Developer Advocate at
Gradle. In February 2025 at Jfokus in Stockholm Trisha received the
Java Community Lifetime Achievement honor from Sharat Chander from
Oracle Java Developer Relations. Trisha has been a Java developer
for 25 years, and since 2011 she’s been actively blogging,
presenting technical sessions at conferences, and evangelizing Java
globally. Recently, Trisha has moved from a traditional developer
advocate role to more of a facilitator of developer advocacy
internally at her company as well as externally. She works with
engineering teams, marketing, teams, and sales teams to ensure the
voice of the developer resonates throughout the organization and
the community. Trisha is always evolving, she’s constantly
growing.
In this conversation we talk about the JVM, the six month Java
release cycle, writing code, the unique features that make Java
special as a technology and as a community, Generative AI, design
patterns, understanding requirements, asking questions, problem
solving, edge cases, documentation, testing, open source,
standards, advice for students, and teaching her 9-year old how to
code in Java. Trisha is fascinated with the entire development life
cycle of software projects and especially the skills developers
need now for working with AI.
“It feels like a very personal thing from him … he’s such a huge
powerhouse in the community. Obviously, he cares about the
technology, but he understands that the technology isn’t enough. It
is about individuals stepping up but not just doing stuff for
themselves but doing stuff to enable other people, to empower other
people. It’s the community that makes it a great place to be, and
Shar is such a huge champion of that. He makes you feel really
appreciated for making the effort to help others and to be involved
in the community.”
— Trisha Gee commenting about receiving the Java Community
Lifetime Achievement recognition from Sharat Chander at
Oracle.
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