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Mark Reinhold is the Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, where he works on the Java SE Platform, OpenJDK, and related projects. Like many in the Java community, he is actually an old Lisp hacker in disguise.

Mark was the lead engineer for the 1.2 and 5.0 releases, the specification lead for Java SE 6, and both the project and specification lead for JDK 7 and JDK 8. He currently leads the JDK 9 and Jigsaw Projects in the OpenJDK Community, where he also serves on the Governing Board.

Mark holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on garbage collection, compilation techniques, type systems, semantics, and the visualization and analysis of program performance, and where he found enlightenment in the true essence of the lambda nature. He speaks regularly at conferences, including Devoxx, FOSDEM, and JavaOne.