Vincent Massol
Software Engineer, Small Business Owner, and Public Speaker in Chantilly, France
Bio Tag: French, Open Source actor, XWiki, Trail Running
Employer: XWiki SAS
Vincent is the CTO of XWiki SAS and an active committer of the XWiki open source project. Before being paid to work on open source he spent over 10 years working nights and week ends having fun on various open source projects (committer on Apache Maven, creator of Apache Cactus and Codehaus Cargo to name a few).
Vincent also co-authored 3 books: JUnit in Action , Maven: A Developer's Notebook and Better Builds with Maven. He's a regular speaker at IT and Java conferences and also a (no longer active) member of LesCastCodeurs podcast, a French podcast focusing on news in the Java world at large.
Vincent lives in the countryside in France, enjoying the nice forests around the city of Chantilly, running, biking and hiking trails (including running ultra trails around France).