Marcus Hirt

Marcus is one of the founders of Appeal Virtual Machines, the company that created the JRockit JVM. He is currently working in the Java Product Group at Oracle. In his spare time he used to enjoy coding on his many pet projects, composing music, and scuba diving. Now he has toddler twins. Marcus has contributed articles, whitepapers, tutorials, and webinars to the Java community, and has been an appreciated speaker at various conferences. He also co-authored a book about JVM technology. He holds an M.Sc. in Comp. Sci. & Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.