Ben Evans is Observability Lead and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat Runtimes. Previously he was Lead Architect for Instrumentation at New Relic, and co-founded jClarity, a performance tools startup acquired by Microsoft. He has also worked as Chief Architect for Listed Derivatives at Deutsche Bank and as Senior Technical Instructor for Morgan Stanley. He is a Java Champion and served for six years on the Java Community Process Executive Committee, helping define new standards for the Java platform.

Ben is the author of seven books, including "The Well-Grounded Java Developer," "Optimizing Java" and the new editions of "Java in a Nutshell." His technical articles are read by thousands of developers every month. Ben is a regular speaker and educator on topics such as the Java platform, Observability, systems architecture, performance and concurrency for companies and conferences all over the world.