Paul Hohensee
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Hohensee is a Principal Engineer with over four decades of systems-level experience, currently shaping OpenJDK platform engineering at Amazon. He is a recognized technical leader in managed runtimes, JVMs, emulators and binary translation, having led JVM and virtual machine projects at Sun/Oracle, Adobe, Intel and Adobe’s ActionScript VM. Paul combines deep compiler and runtime knowledge with hands-on work on dynamic binary translation and hardware-assisted emulation dating back to the 1990s, making him a go-to architect for performance-sensitive platforms. He has a track record of moving research-grade techniques into production-grade JVM and runtime implementations and mentoring cross-functional teams through complex migrations and optimizations. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, he pairs a BSE in Computer Science from UConn with a rare continuity of expertise across both academic-style innovation and long-lived commercial platforms. An understated detail: his career bridges early optimizing compiler work in the late 1970s and modern OpenJDK platform stewardship, reflecting continuous relevance across multiple generations of computing.
7 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at University of Connecticut
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Github Skills (18)
jvm10
corretto10
java10
openjdk10
sdk10
jmh10
code-tools10
amazon10
alfresco7
control-flow6
makefile6
jsinterop6
cubing4
allocation4
heap4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
phohensee/jdk
Sep 2020 - Apr 2025
JDK main-line development
Contributions:667 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 7 months
javajvmjdk
openjdk/jdk11u-dev
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk-updates
Contributions:308 reviews, 23 PRs, 309 comments in 3 years 10 months
sdkupdatesjdkopenjdkjava
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