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Mary Grygleski

Mary is a Java Champion and a passionate Developer Advocate at DataStax, a leading data management company that champions Open Source software and specializes in Real-Time AI, Big Data, DB-as-a-Service, Streaming, and Cloud-Native systems.  With over 25 years of hands-on experience in the software engineering and technical architecture areas, she began venturing into developer advocacy in 2018 at IBM, and has never looked back since then.  She enjoys reaching out to developers and helping them succeed in their work.  Outside of her day job, she is an active tech community builder, and currently the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG).