Patrick Linskey has been involved in object/relational mapping for 5+ years. As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drove the technical direction

of the company and oversaw the development of Kodo.

Now at BEA, he leads the EJB team in designing and implementation of the WebLogic Server EJB solution. Patrick is one of the leaders on the EJB3 and the JDO specification teams, and is BEA's representative on the EJB3 expert group. Patrick also leads the OpenJPA open source project in Apache.

Patrick is involved in several industry consortia, serving as a luminary on JDOcentral and as the moderator on forthcoming JavaPersistence.com. He has been the face of standards-based persistence, having evangelized JDO and EJB Persistence in hundreds of talks throughout the world including BEA's keynote at the 2006 JavaONE Conference. Patrick is co-author of Bitter EJB, and is on the JAOO Conference Program Committee. Patrick has also worked for TechTrader, MIT's Media Lab and Bank One in various technical roles. Under Patrick's leadership, Kodo has become the market leading JDO implementation with over 400 customers throughout the world spanning all industries, and is now the basis for the WebLogic Server EJB persistence provider. Patrick holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.