Introducing Ivar Grimstad

Ivar Grimstad is a software architect working as a principal consultant for the Cybercom Group in Sweden. A Java Champion and Java User Group leader, Ivar is deeply involved in giving back to the Java community, having joined the Java Community Process (JCP) as a member of the executive committee. He is also an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and a frequent and well-reviewed speaker at international developer conferences. Since this interview, Ivar has become a Jakarta Enterprise Edition (EE) developer advocate at the Eclipse Foundation. Find Ivar on Twitter: @ivar_grimstad.

Geertjan Wielenga: Do you think that developer advocacy is still quite an unknown area?

Ivar Grimstad: It's only recently that I've started noticing that companies are now searching for and hiring developer advocates. Previously, you just became a developer advocate in some way.

My position at Cybercom is not formally described as "developer advocate" because...