Samir Kamerkar is the Director of Engineering at Canonical, leading the Language Toolchains and Runtimes team contributing to Java, Python, .NET, Go, and Rust. With 30 years of Java experience from Applets in v1.2, J2EE/Servlets, to leading the cloud runtime transformation of IBM OpenJ9 and Semeru Runtime, Samir is dedicated to advancing developer tooling and runtimes on Ubuntu Linux.