John D. Ament

John Ament was born to a beautician and taxi driver in the warm summer of 1983 of Ridgewood, New York. At the age of six, the family moved to the northern suburbs of New Jersey. After graduating from Rutgers University and working a few short-term IT jobs, he moved to the southern side of New Jersey just outside of Philadelphia, where he has been located for the last seven years. In 2008, John started participating in the open source community.After working with Spring a bit here and there, he...See more

John Ament was born to a beautician and taxi driver in the warm summer of 1983 of Ridgewood, New York. At the age of six, the family moved to the northern suburbs of New Jersey. After graduating from Rutgers University and working a few short-term IT jobs, he moved to the southern side of New Jersey just outside of Philadelphia, where he has been located for the last seven years. In 2008, John started participating in the open source community.After working with Spring a bit here and there, he started investigating Seam Framework. After finding use of the framework in a few applications he started participating more and more with the community.Eventually, John became the module lead for a couple of components in Seam 3 and started working more and more with open source technologies. This lead to more and more community involvement, including participation in the JMS 2.0 Expert Group. See less