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# Gerrit Grunwald
Developer advocate at Azul Systems decoding JVM internals and garbage collection.

## About

Gerrit Grunwald advocates for Java developers at Azul Systems. He focuses on the nuts and bolts of the Java Virtual Machine, breaking down how applications reserve memory and handle object lifecycles.

His talks explore different garbage collection strategies, giving engineers practical ways to choose the right approach for performance optimization.

When he is not digging into JVM internals, he shares his photography via GravityLabs.



## Past Sessions

### World Congress 2025 · July 9, 2025
Berlin, Germany
- [Trash Talk - Exploring the memory management in the JVM](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/849-trash-talk-exploring) · 30 min




## Links

- [X](https://twitter.com/hansolo_)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerritgrunwald/)