At Oracle Joe is currently the lead engineer of Project Coin, the effort to select and implement a set of small Java language changes for JDK 7. He also serves as a member of the JDK 7 release team. Concurrently, Joe continues to be the release manager, lead engineer, and quality lead for OpenJDK 6, an open source implementation of the Java SE 6 platform. A longtime member of the JDK engineering group, Joe was previously specification lead for JSR 269, the Pluggable Annotation Processing API, which delivered a standardized annotation processing API and mirror-based language model into JDK 6 to supersede the earlier apt tool from JDK 5. Joe assisted in implementing the JDK 5 language changes with work spanning core reflection, javac hacking, and general library support.
Joe holds a master's degree in computer science from UC Berkeley and a master's degree in applied math from Stanford University.
