Emmanuel Bernard is a data platform architect in the JBoss portfolio at Red Hat. He oversees data-related projects, particularly the Hibernate portfolio from which he originated.
Emmanuel joined the Hibernate team in 2003 and since then, his work is almost 100% open source. He led the Hibernate JPA implementation, founded and led Hibernate Search, Hibernate Validator. His latest venture is Hibernate OGM, but he also contributes to Ceylon, Awestruct, and a few other projects in his spare time.
Emmanuel is a member of the JPA 2.1 Expert Group and responsible for the Bean Validation specification. He regularly speaks at various conferences and Java User Groups, notably JavaOne, JBoss World, Devoxx, and is co-author of [Hibernate Search in Action](http://emmanuelbernard.com/books/hsia/) published by Manning. He is also founder and co-host of two podcasts: [Les Cast Codeurs](http://lescastcodeurs.com/) and [JBoss Community Asylum](http://asylum.jboss.org/) (English).
You can follow him on Twitter at [@emmanuelbernard](http://twitter.com/emmanuelbernard).
