User:Alberto.roberto2/Thomas Modeneis - SouJava Leader

Thomas Modeneis , is an Brazilain Grey Hat, Developer Advocate and Blockchain core developer. He is best known as one of the JUG Leads of SouJava and speaker on a variety of conferences such as JavaOne, GopherCon, JustJava, Campus Party, RHoK, The Developers Conference, Blockchance and others.

Thomas is JCP member and Excecutive Comitee Member with SouJava, Team Lead and Technical Lead and Active member at Global Websphere Community and Leader of Gibraltar Golang Community (GGC).

Thomas is co-founder of two Decentralized Blockchain protocols: MDL.life (Obelisk - SKY) and Smilo.io (SPoRT BFT+)

Career
In 1999, Thomas was very active member of the underground script & exploit developers known as Grey Hat's. He was responsible to research new vulnerabilities, create and develop several zero day exploits.

In 2002, Thomas created the Brazilian Defacers and Grey Hat Meeting in São Paulo where for the first time, many notorious Brazilian Defacers/Grey Hat exchanged zero day exploits and latest hacking techniques.

Notorious Brazilian Defacers and Grey Hat Groups exchanged and explored vulnerabilities reported during this Meetings: The actions taken by this Groups and their actions are not related with Thomas in any instance, Thomas did not deface any website and he is not responsible at any term for what they did with the information provided.
 * 1) Ir4dex
 * 2) Intruders of Network (#IoN)
 * 3) r00t_system
 * 4) Hax0rs Lab
 * 5) Red Eye

In 2004 reading in newspapers about new technology tendencies Thomas decided to leave the underground programming and apply for the SouJava Java User Group Members Meeting and get involved into the Java Community.

In 2008 Thomas CO-founded the company Modeneis S/S Ltda. where he is CIO and Co-Founder.

In 2010 Thomas assumed the Leading of the SouJava.

In 2012 Thomas was Speaker at JavaOne 2012 in San Francisco - CA, his presentation was about The Benefits of Open Source, Vosao open source content management system and Google App Engine.

In 2013 Thomas was Speaker at JavaOne 2013 in San Francisco - CA, his presentation was about Fundamental Paradigms for Java Developers: NoSQL and OSGI. source-code:

In 2013 Thomas was together with other members of SouJava the winner of 10th JCP Annual Award - JCP Member/Participant of the Year. JCP Member/Participant of the Year - London Java Community and SouJava For their historic contribution to the Adopt a JSR program and supporting Java developers through the JCP.

In 2013 Thomas together with Modeneis LTD founded Comentarismo.com a social media website whereby users can read, write, upvote and downvote comments on current incidents and latest news on the top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. Recent Website claims to have up to 1000 users/day and about 30k users monthly. -->

In 2014 Thomas founded Gibraltar Golang Community (GGC) is a User Group Community dedicated to the education of Go developers and the promotion of the Go programming language in Gibraltar. Go users are everywhere. We are a community that is passionate about Go.

In 2015, Thomas founded SouJava (Adopt-JSR) Gibraltar Experts (SJGE). SouJava is a Java user group created to promote Java and many OpenSource initiatives around world, SouJava User Group is NGO, and is together with London Java User Group, the creator of the Adopt A JSR Program. SouJava is also the First Java User Group to become a Java Community Process Expert Group Member and it is quite known by the engagement of its members. SJGE wants to find people who want to Adopt A JSR and work with the experts on the subject to contribute to the Java ecosystem.

In 2015, Thomas founded Gibraltar Test Automation Community. A community dedicated to the education of Developers and the promotion of the Automation Testing in Gibraltar. A community for Testing and interested in enhancing skills and best practices.

In March 2018 Thomas joined MDL Talent Hub as a co-founder and started the development on the MDL Blockchain platform. Thomas initial role on the MDL Talent Hub was to develop the MDL Blockchain platform from the ground zero, and make sure that the mainnet could be released to the exchanges around the world. After being able to prove its value, Thomas assumed the CEO position in the project. MDL Website: MDL Blockchain Github: MDL Block-explorer:

In June 2018, Thomas Joined Smilo Foundation as a CTO and Co-founder. Thomas was responsible for the implementation and build of the new Blockchain infrastructure. Maintaining a productive working environment for the development team and establishes and/or co-ordinates programmes of work (delivered through development). Smilo Website: Smilo Blockchain Github: Smilo Block-explorer: Tech paper:

Public Talks

 * Blockchace 2018:

Pirate recording of the talk: Interview:


 * JavaOne Latin America 2015:

NightHacking JavaOne LAD interview:

Speakers: Heather Vancura, JCP Program Manager, Oracle; Thomas Modeneis, Community Organizer and Developer Talk Description: The Java Community Process (JCP) is key to the evolution of Java. This session discusses different ways you can participate in the JCP program and how to get involved through the Adopt-a-JSR program. You will also learn about upcoming changes to the Java Specification Request (JSR) process and how you can get involved through the JCP.next effort, JSR 358, and JSR 364. Spec Leads, JUG leaders, Adopt-a-JSR participants, and JCP members will share their JCP program experiences and what they've achieved through their involvement. Come with your questions and suggestions, and leave with the motivation and information you need to become an active participant in advancing the Java platform.

Official recording: Pirate recording Talk Description: The JGo Project aims to provide a complete compiler and runtime environment for the Go programming language to/on the Java Virtual Machine. The jgoc compiler is written in Scala and the runtime in Java.
 * GopherCon - Denver - USA - July 2015

Speakers: Thomas Modeneis
 * JavaOne 2012 - San Francisco - CA - USA: Benefits of Open Source ,

source-code: Speakers: Thomas Modeneis
 * JavaOne 2013 - San Francisco - CA - USA: Fundamental Paradigms for Java Developers: NoSQL and OSGI.

Articles
Thomas wrote many articles and study cases about software development and best practices, here is few of them:


 * 1) JavaOne 2012: Benefits of Open Source ,
 * 2) Creating a EJB3 project with Message Driven Beans (MDBs) Step by Step
 * 3) JMS & Message Driven Beans(MDBs)
 * 4) SouJava ... aprova a JSR #352 Batch Applications for the Java Platform
 * 5) SouJava ... aprova a JSR #346 – Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.1
 * 6) Palestrantes Brasileiros no JavaOne 2012 San Francisco – CA
 * 7) Adopt a JSR: JSR 357 – Social Media API
 * 8) Campus Party – 2012 – cpbr#5
 * 9) Jfokus – A maior conferencia de Java na Suécia
 * 10) Blackout SouJava – Stopped they must be; on this all depends.
 * 11) Geek Bike Ride 2011 – 4/12/2011, Domingo – 7h
 * 12) RHoK#3 São Paulo – Primeiro Dia
 * 13) RHoK#3 São Paulo – Segundo Dia

Java Community Forums and Conferences
Thomas is also known as Organizer and confirmed presence in the main Community Forums and Conferences in the World:
 * 1) Gophercon - Gophers of the world, unite!
 * 2) dotGo - The European Go conference
 * 3) JavaOne
 * 4) JavaOne Latin America
 * 5) JustJava - The Brazilian Java Community Conference
 * 6) Campus Party - #CPBR5
 * 7) The Developers Conference
 * 8) Random Hack of Kindness

Thomas Modeneis' Honors and Awards
10th JCP Annual Award] - JCP Member/Participant of the Year - October 2012

On the Picture from left to right: Thomas Modeneis (SouJava), Fabio Velloso (SouJava), Mauricio Leal (SouJava), Heather Van Cura (JCP Office Staff), Yara Mascarenhas Hornos Senger (SouJava), Bruno Souza (SouJava), Patrick Curran (JCP Chair)

Mail List
Thomas is a very active member of Java Community, with more than 5000 answers in the Mail Lists: SouJava, NBDISCUSS_PT MAILING LIST
 * 1) java-list@soujava.java.net
 * 2) enterprise-list@soujava.java.net
 * 3) j2me-list@soujava.java.net
 * 4) scjp-list@soujava.java.net
 * 5) scwcd-list@soujava.java.net
 * 6) dicas-list@soujava.java.net
 * 7) padronizacao@soujava.java.net
 * 8) javaone@soujava.java.net
 * 9) nbdiscuss_pt@netbeans.org