Tugdual "Tug" Grall is Technical Evangelist at Couchbase and a passionate developer. He currently works with developer communities in Europe to facilitate NoSQL adoption. Tugdual contributes to Couchbase's Java and NodeJS development kits.
Before joining Couchbase, Tug was the CTP at eXo, the company that created the cloud development tool [codenvy](http://www.codenvy.com/) and the eXo Platform social platform. Previously, Tugdual worked as a product manager and developer in the Oracle Fusion Middleware team on the Java EE platform.
Tug has participated in numerous DevoxxFR, FOSDEM, Google I/O, JavaOne conferences and many meetups/Java User Groups. Tugdual is a co-founder of NantesJUG, which has been organizing monthly meetings around the Java ecosystem since 2008. When he has time, he maintains a [blog](http://tugdualgrall.blogspot.com/) and an application deployed on Google App Engine: [resultri](http://www.resultri.com/).
