Kohsuke Kawaguchi

I’m Kohsuke Kawaguchi. I’m a software engineer who enjoys writing code and solving problems. I have been working on a large number of open-source projects. I am probably best known as the creator of Hudson, a continuous integration server. My projects span many different areas of the technology, but my main interest is around developer tools, XML, and web services in Java.

I have worked for Sun Microsystems, Inc. for about 8 years, and then briefly worked for Oracle as Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010. Since 2010 April, I’m working independently.

Conferences

I’ve presented in many technical conferences about my projects in the past:

• “Continuous Integration with Hudson” at San Francisco JUG — 2010 Feb. slides and video.
• “Hudson: a continuous integration system” at JavaZone 2009 — general introduction of Hudson.
• “Continuous Integration in the Cloud With Hudson” at JavaOne 2009 — slides.
• “Improving the Engineering Process Through Automation by Hudson” at JavaOne 2008
• “GlassFish Project v3 as an Extensible Server Platform” at JavaOne 2008
• “Hudson, a continuous integration system” at JavaPolis 2007
• “Unleashing the Power of JAX-WS RI: Spring, Stateful Web Services, SMTP, and More” at JavaOne 2007
• Hudson BOF at JavaOne 2007

Awards

• 2008 Duke’s Choice Award in the developer solutions category, for Hudson.
• 2006 Japan Software Science Society Tutorial Paper Award for “XML and Schema Languages.”
• 2005 Exploratory IT Human Resources Project “Super Creator” (youth divison) by Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan.