Sharat Chander - Senior Director, Java Product Management
Sharat Chander has worked in the IT industry for 20 years for firms including Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. His background and technical specialty is in Java development tools, graphics design, and product/community management. Chander has been actively involved in the Java community for 15 years, helping drive greater Java awareness, acceptance, adoption, and advocacy. As Oracle’s director of Java developer relations, Chander serves as the JavaOne conference content chairperson, driving the technical content strategy and Java community involvement in the conference. He is a frequent keynote speaker and participant in developer programs worldwide. Chander holds a BS in corporate finance from the University of Maryland and an MBA in international business from Loyola College, Maryland. You can often find Chander at global developer events and Java community engagements. When not growing visibility for Java, he follows his passion for baseball, actively coaching his 10-year-old son’s Little League team and fanatically following his hometown Baltimore Orioles.
Posts
- The Arrival of Java 23! on September 17, 2024 JDK 23 Oracle
- The Arrival of Java 22! on March 19, 2024 JDK 22 Oracle
- JavaOne Returns to the San Francisco Bay Area! on March 19, 2024
- Tis the season of…Thanks! on December 21, 2023 Oracle
- The Arrival of Java 21! on September 19, 2023 JDK 21 Oracle
- The Inside Java Newsletter: Learning, Sharing, Collaborating on September 14, 2023 Oracle
- The Arrival of Java 20! on March 21, 2023 JDK 20 Oracle
- Oracle DevLive: Level Up | Java Developer Day on February 27, 2023 JDK 20 Oracle
- The Arrival of Java 19! on September 20, 2022 JDK 19 Oracle
- The Arrival of Java 17! on September 14, 2021 JDK 17 Oracle
- The Arrival of Java 16! on March 16, 2021 JDK 16 Moved By Java Oracle
- Free Training and $25 Certification Exam on March 3, 2021 Moved By Java Oracle
- The Arrival of Java 15 on September 15, 2020 Moved By Java Oracle JDK 15
- The Arrival of Java 14! on March 17, 2020 JDK 14
- The Arrival of Java 13! on September 16, 2019 JDK 13
- The Arrival of Java 12! on March 13, 2019 JDK 12
- Oracle Java SE Releases FAQ on January 14, 2019 Oracle
Videos
- Kicking off the Week with Sharat Chander - Live Q&A at Devoxx BE on October 7, 2024 Oracle
- What's New in JDK 20? on July 1, 2023 JDK 20
- Java First. Java Always. on October 19, 2022 Oracle
- Moving Java Forward with Java 19 on September 20, 2022 JDK 19 Oracle
- Moving the Java Community Forward on May 9, 2022 Oracle
- Moving Java Forward...Together on November 11, 2021
- Meet the Java Experts Panel on October 5, 2021 JDK 17 Oracle
- Keynote - Moving Java Forward on September 17, 2021 Oracle
- OpenJDK Projects Give Rise to Innovations in JDK 15 and Beyond on November 12, 2020
- Keynote - The Future of Java Is Now on September 17, 2020 Moved By Java Oracle
- Ask the Java Architects Panel on September 17, 2020
- Sharat Chander on the Java Community and the Ongoing 25th Anniversary Celebrations on June 14, 2020 Moved By Java
- Java's 25th Birthday Kickoff Event [Moved by Java] on May 20, 2020 Moved By Java
- Oracle JDK and Oracle Open JDK on February 20, 2020 Oracle
Podcasts
- Episode 25 “JavaOne is Back!” on August 3, 2022
- The New Stack - Java Adapts to Cloud Native Computing on March 1, 2022 Oracle Cloud