Charlie Hunt is a JVM Engineer at Oracle leading Java and JVM projects with a focus on reducing memory footprint while maintaining application throughput and latency. He is also the lead author of Java Performance, published in 2011, and co-author of the Java Performance Companion, published in 2016. He serves as a regular presenter at the JavaOne conference where he has been recognized as a Java Rockstar. Prior to leading JVM projects for Oracle, Charlie held numerous performance positions including the Performance Engineering Architect at Salesforce.com, and HotSpot VM Performance Architect at Oracle and Sun Microsystems.