Mike Yawn is a Senior Solutions Architect with Hazelcast, where his focus is on pre-sales consulting for the Hazelcast Platform. Mike 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. Before 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)