Holly Cummins is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Innovation Leader at IBM. Holly has used technology to enable innovation, for clients across a range of industries, from banking to catering to retail to NGOs. During her time as a lead developer in the IBM Garage, she has led projects to count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, improve health care for the elderly, and change how city parking works. Holly is also an Oracle Java Champion, IBM Q Ambassador, and JavaOne Rock Star. Before joining the IBM Garage, she was Delivery Lead for the WebSphere Liberty Profile (now Open Liberty). Holly co-authored Manning’s Enterprise OSGi in Action and is a regular keynote speaker. She is an active speaker and has spoken at KubeCon (keynote), GOTO, JavaOne, Devoxx, Sonar+D, JavaZone, JFokus, The ServerSide Java Symposium, GOTO, JAX London, QCon, GeeCon, and the Great Indian Developer Summit, as well as a number of user groups.
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Holly's website: https://hollycummins.com
Holly's blog post: https://blog.container-solutions.com/wtf-does-tech-have-to-do-with-the-planet
IBM Garage: https://ibm.com/garage
IBM Garage Method: https://ibm.com/garage/method
IBM Quantum Computing: https://ibm.com/quantum-computing
Quantum Computing Tools: ibm.com/quantum-computing/tools
Quantum Development Roadmap: ibm.com/blogs/research/2021/02/quantum-development-roadmap
Qiskit: qiskit.org
Code Engine: ibm.com/cloud/code-engine
Open Liberty: openliberty.io
MicroProfile: microprofile.io
Holly's book on OSGI: manning.com/books/enterprise-osgi-in-action
Application Modernization Podcast Series: developer.ibm.com/podcasts/the-application-modernization-series
IBM Expert TV: Dr. Holly Cummins, How - and Why - to Modernize Scruffy Old Java Apps: ibm.biz/experttv
Employment at IBM: ibm.com/employment
Linux Foundation's new Agriculture project: agstack.org
