# About

Author: [Guillaume Laforge](https://glaforge.dev/) | Published: 2003-01-01 | Canonical: https://glaforge.dev/about/


**Guillaume Laforge** is **Developer Advocate** for [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/),
where he focuses on **agentic development & frameworks**, on **generative AI**, and spreads the word to developers about the serverless compute space, service orchestration solutions.

Guillaume is a [Java Champion](https://javachampions.org/),
a co-author of [Groovy in Action](https://www.manning.com/books/groovy-in-action-second-edition),
and a founding member of the French tech podcast [Les CastCodeurs](http://lescastcodeurs.com/).

Among other open source contributions, Guillaume is a committer [LangChain4j](https://docs.langchain4j.dev/)
and [ADK for Java](https://github.com/google/adk-java), for building the next generation LLM powered applications and AI agents.

Beyond those two frameworks, Guillaume also created a [Java SDK for the Gemini Interactions API](https://github.com/glaforge/gemini-interactions-api-sdk/), 
and developed an unofficial [Antigravity SDK for Java](https://github.com/glaforge/antigravity-java-sdk/) aligning with the official Python SDK.


Guillaume is the co-founder of the [Apache Groovy](http://groovy.codehaus.org/) programming language project,
which he led under the umbrella of G2One (his Groovy/Grails startup where he was the **VP Technology**), then SpringSource, VMware, and the Pivotal spin-off. 
When the project joined to the Apache Software Foundation, he was the Chair of the Apache Groovy Project Management Committee (PMC).
He is a member of the [Micronaut](http://micronaut.io/) Technology Advisory Board.
He initiated the creation of the [Grails](http://grails.org/) web application framework,
and founded the [Gaelyk](http://gaelyk.appspot.com/) project, a lightweight toolkit for developing applications in Groovy for Google App Engine.

He is a **frequent conference speaker** [presenting](/talks) on Generative AI, AI agent developent, serverless technologies, microservice orchestration and architecture,
machine learning, conversational interfaces, Google Cloud projects & services, Apache Groovy, Micronaut, Web API design,
at events like Devoxx and Voxxed Days, JavaOne, JFokus, JavaZone, JAX, GR8Conf, Greach, DevTernity, QCon, Cloud Next, BDX I/O, DevFest events, among others.

Before joining Google, at Restlet (acquired by [Talend](https://www.talend.com/)),
Guillaume was taking care of the **Product Leadership** of the products, and was **leading Developer Advocacy**.
Prior to that, he was leading the Groovy team at G2One, SpringSource, VMware and Pivotal.
Before working full-time on Groovy, Guillaume worked as a **Software Architect** for [OCTO Technology](http://www.octo.com/),
a consultancy focusing on architecture and agile methodologies, where he developed new customer offerings around Groovy and Grails.

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