I'm a developer advocate for the awesome GraalVM 🐰 at Oracle. I create sample projects, write blog posts, speak at conferences, and collaborate with our open source community. I love traveling, working out, reading fiction, learning new things, and talking to people :)
For speaking & content engagements, you can get in touch with me anywhere on social, such as on Twitter or BlueSky. Below you can find some of my work.
- 🇳🇱 Voxxed Days Amsterdam (Voxxed Days Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1-2 April, 2026)
- 🇪🇸 Spring Native: The Future of Fast and Efficient Spring Applications (Spring I/O, Spain, 14-15 April, 2026)
- 🇬🇷 Building Fast AI Search and Automation with GraalVM (Devoxx Greece, 23-25 April, 2026)
See past talks and more details here.
You can find more on YouTube, here are a few of my favs.
- 🇳🇱 [Deep Dive] Bring the Action: Using GraalVM in Production (Voxxed Days Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- 🇧🇪 Bring the action: using GraalVM in production (Devoxx Belgium)
- 🇧🇪 Practical LLM Inference in Modern Java (Devoxx Belgium)
- 🇪🇸 Going AOT: Everything you need to know about GraalVM for Java applications (Spring I/O, Spain)
- 🇬🇧 Bootiful GraalVM (Devoxx UK)
- 🇳🇴 Supercharge your GraalVM applications in 5 steps (JavaZone, Norway)
- native-spring-boot 🍃
- oracle-database-vector-search 🔎
- graalvm-in-practice 👩💻
- swiss-travel-advisor 🏔️
- native-micronaut 👩🚀
- great-python-with-graalpy 🐍
- airline-demo
✈️ - native-langchain4j 🦜
- native-spring-ai 🤖
- agentic-devrel-helper-spring 🙋♀️
- native-modern-java-demo ☕️
- christmas-market-agent 🎄
- swiss-german-dictionary 🇨🇭
- GraalVM in 2024: A year in review
- 5 Cool Applications You Can Build With Java and GraalVM
- Welcome, GraalVM for JDK 23!
- What’s new in Graal Languages 24.1
- Raising $130,000 for Ukraine with GDG DevFest
- High performance with GraalVM (The Geek Narrator Podcast)
- GraalVM Advocate Alina Yurenko on a Bootiful Podcast (Bootiful Podcast)
- Unleashing Native Imaging Power in GraalVM (GOTO Podcast)
- What Problem Does GraalVM Solve? All of them. Featuring Alina Yurenko (Happy Path Programming)
- Supercharging GraalVM (Podcast with Adam Bien about Java and Web)
