Mary is a Developer Advocate with the Websphere/Liberty technology team at IBM, with a focus on Liberty, MicroProfile, Reactive Java, Open Source, Cloud, and Enterprise Distributed Systems. She started working as a software engineer with C and Unix, then got into Java, Open Source, and web development in the new Millennium, and now she has ventured into Reactive, Mobile, and the DevOps space. In her previous incarnations, she worked for several technology product companies in the Route 128 Boston Technology Corridor as well the San Francisco Bay Area. She now resides in the Greater Chicago area, and is the President and Executive Board Member of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG).  She is also an active co-organizers for the Data, Cloud and AI In Chicago, Chicago Cloud, and IBM Cloud Chicago meetup groups.  Mary continues to be amazed by how software innovations can dramatically transform our lives.