Julia Boes
Australia
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Top SchoolJulia Boes is a software engineer with 8 years of professional experience and 7+ years contributing to open source, best known as an OpenJDK committer who has driven improvements across Java core libraries, networking, Project Amber and Panama—including delivering JEP 408: Simple Web Server in JDK 18. Based in Germany, she combines deep platform-level expertise with a passion for teaching and knowledge-sharing, frequently bridging complex language/runtime concepts to practical developer outcomes. Her background spans industry roles at Oracle and work on the Gradle ecosystem, reflecting strong build and tooling sensibilities alongside systems-level contributions. Trained in computer science (MSc, University College Dublin) with earlier humanities studies in linguistics and German, she brings an unusual mix of technical rigor and communication skill that helps make low-level innovations accessible.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Arts - MA, Linguistics, Master of Arts - MA, Linguistics at Universität TrierUniversity Exchange Program, German Studies, University Exchange Program, German Studies at Georgetown UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, German as a foreign language, Romance Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, German as a foreign language, Romance Studies at Friedrich Schiller University JenaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University College Dublin
Spanish, Latin, English, German
Github Skills (48)
kotlin10
binary-serialization10
jvm10
groovy10
java-bytecode10
java10
serialization10
openjdk10
automation10
kryo10
xml10
xstream10
eclipse10
intellij-platform10
cloning10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
FrauBoes/jackson01
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Make Jackson work with Java Records in JDK 15
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
recordsjava-recordsjdkjacksonjava
FrauBoes/ParallelDistributedProgrammingJava
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Based on course Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Java by Rice University
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
concurrent-programmingjava
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