Mark Thomas
I have been an Apache Tomcat committer since November 2003. I initially worked on Tomcat in my free time but since August 2008 I have been employed by SpringSource (now part of VMware) to work on Apache Tomcat. I spend most of my time working on Tomcat but I also work on VMware products built on top of Apache Tomcat as well as providing third-line support to VMware customers using Tomcat and Tomcat based products. Additionally, I lead the SpringSource security team.
I am the Apache Tomcat 7 release manager where I try to release a new version every month or so. I am currently focussed on Tomcat 8 development which will support the new versions of the Servlet (JSR340), JSP and EL (JSR241) specifications as well as adding JSR356 (WebSocket) support. I am a member of the JCP expert groups for JSR340, JSR341 and JSR356.
Elsewhere as the ASF, I am a member of the ASF security team, a member of the ASF infrastructure team and I am also part of the Commons PMC where I focus on Commons Pool and DBCP.
I am a member of the ASF.
Presentations
Tomcat 8 preview
Tuesday 5:15 p.m.–6 p.m. in Rhein-Neckar
Apache Tomcat & Reverse Proxies
Wednesday 9 a.m.–9:45 a.m. in Level 2 Left