Ron Veen is a software engineer and “Special Agent” at Team Rockstars IT. With over 15 years working across the JVM ecosystem, he has built everything from midrange systems to modern microservices.
He focuses on helping developers navigate the rapid evolution of the Java language. His conference talks break down pragmatic ways to adopt new features—like virtual threads and pattern matching—and prepare codebases for changing baseline requirements in popular frameworks like Spring and Jakarta EE.
Ron is also the author of a recent book on cloud-native Jakarta EE.
Videos
Beyond Vibe Coding: Using CLI Tools as Your AI Counterpart in Pair Programming
Ron Veen · Team Rockstars IT
World Congress North America · 2026
Modern Java: This is not your father's Java anymore
Ron Veen · Team Rockstars IT
World Congress · 2023
Using Java 17 latest features in real world projects
Ron Veen · Team Rockstars IT
World Congress · 2022