Geertjan Wielenga

Geertjan Wielenga is a product manager in the NetBeans team. He lives and works in Amsterdam. He is a Java technology enthusiast, evangelist, trainer, speaker, and writer. He studied law at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg (South Africa). In early 1996, however, he found himself as a proofreader for a software organization in the Netherlands called SuperNova. After having worked at various other software organizations in the Netherlands, he moved to Vienna, Austria and worked for Coca-Cola’s ERP system. In 2004 he moved to Prague, Czech Republic, to work on a free and open source called NetBeans IDE. He discovered that NetBeans IDE was a unique product, project, and ecosystem. Geertjan became inspired and continually enthused by the open source ecosystem and the central role that the NetBeans community was playing in it. He is happy and proud of the role NetBeans has played in Java’s 20+ years of existence, and of as his own small personal contributions to the process.