Hi, my name is Chad Arimura.
I am a husband, father of 3, Christian, boss of a few dogs, and commander and chief to 15-20 chickens. I am also a 3x entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and CEO of Iron.io where we grew the business while pioneering serverless computing including some of the earliest usages of the term "serverless" in 2010. Now I lead the Developer Relations and Education groups for the Java team at Oracle. Read More →
Speaking
Writing
January 11th, 2026
Claude Butler
October 17th, 2025
Building Gus: A Lightweight Terminal Agent in Modern Java
October 10th, 2025
Getting jpackage to Work with CrowdStrike
September 26th, 2025
The Lost Art of Slow Gaming
September 20th, 2025
Losing Touch with the Inner Workings
July 2nd, 2025
The Individualized Creator Economy
May 28th, 2025
Building Arc (in a few hours)
May 26th, 2025
My New Personal Site
January 11th, 2019
Creating the Boom 💥 Emoji
May 22nd, 2017
Thanks and Onward