Ivar Grimstad
Jakarta EE Developer Advocate
Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden
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Top SchoolIvar Grimstad is a Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation with 12+ years of experience championing cloud-native Java and shaping enterprise Java standards. A Java Champion, JUG leader and long-time JCP Executive Committee member, he leads specification work for Jakarta MVC and serves as PMC Lead for EE4J, blending hands-on specification authorship with community building. He creates technical content, speaks worldwide at developer conferences, and mentors local communities from his base in Malmö, Sweden. Founder of Ivar Grimstad AB and a LinkedIn Learning instructor, he pairs practical coding samples with advocacy programs to grow Jakarta EE participation. Less obvious: his career traces back to founding multiple Java competence networks within large consultancies, showing a consistent pattern of seeding and scaling developer communities alongside technical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian, Swedish
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Github Skills (139)
hugo10
glassfish10
specification10
eclipse10
jar10
git-submodules10
umbrella10
aggregates10
javaee10
java10
jakarta-mvc10
twine10
bubble9
api9
azerothcore9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ivargrimstad/ozark
Apr 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
mvcphpreference-implementation
ivargrimstad/ee4j-website
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
Website for the Eclipse EE4J Top Level Project
Contributions:88 pushes, 104 branches in 3 years 6 months
ee4jjavaeclipse
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