Monica Beckwith
Senior Principal Engineer at Microsoft
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMonica Beckwith is a Senior Principal Engineer and recognized Java Champion with deep expertise in JVM performance, garbage collection, and managed runtimes, currently driving Java performance work at Microsoft from Austin. Her career spans influential roles at Oracle, Arm, and as an independent consultant where she led G1 GC development, created performance strategy for Arm64 servers, and helped ship OpenJDK on Windows ARM. Monica is an engaging speaker and author with keynote talks and technical deep dives at QCon, JavaOne, and other major conferences, and she frequently publishes practical tuning guidance and HotSpot runtime patches. Beyond corporate engineering, she coaches robotics teams and volunteers teaching Java to underserved high school students, reflecting a commitment to mentoring the next generation. An interesting non-obvious detail: she blends low-level systems knowledge with hardware experience dating back to early work in electronics and astronomical instrumentation, which informs her "mechanical sympathy" approach to performance.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (31)
jvm10
spring-mvc10
java10
openjdk10
jackson10
spring-data-jpa10
spring9
mysql-database9
swagger9
spring-data9
jmeter9
sdk9
rest9
springfox9
hibernate9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/openjdk-aarch64
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Microsoft builds of OpenJDK for AArch64 Platforms
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 19 commits in 1 year 4 months
buildsplatformsaarch64microsoftopenjdk
mo-beck/jdk
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
JDK main-line development
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
javajvmjdk
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