Brian Gilstrap

Brian Gilstrap is a Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc. where he has spent the last eleven of his 20+ years in the industry. In those years, he has worked with many languages and many technologies. He writes and blogs frequently, and has been on the steering committee of the St. Louis Java User's Group more than a decade. With OCI he provides consulting to companies in many industries and countries, and develops & delivers training courses for Washington University's Center for Applied Information Technology.

Brian has a passion for building software that is easy to use and robust while still meeting the rapid development requirements in today's industry. He has expertise in distributed systems, object oriented analysis and design, secure computing, and many languages and frameworks.