Volker Simonis works in the SAP JVM Technology group for more than 10 years. He is an OpenJDK contributor from the very beginning and helped the SAP JVM team engage in the OpenJDK project. He’s the project lead of the OpenJDK PowerPC/AIX and s390x porting projects and a JDK 8/9 reviewer. He also represents SAP in the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process.