Java Software Engineer Paul Sandoz discusses Project Valhalla's value types, nullability, and potential performance gains. Topics include heap and stack optimization, challenges in retrofitting value types, implications for numeric types, connections to Vector API, and Java's competitiveness in machine learning. Sandoz also covers backward compatibility, his role in the project, and future directions for Java.

Paul Sandoz, software engineer at Sun Microsystems and expert in JAX-RS, discusses early experiences with computers, coding experiments and projects, challenges and potential of virtual reality and augmented reality, working for some microsisters and technology industry growth in Dublin, availability of taskbar-like feature for Linux, rise of SOAP in enterprise projects, and JAX-RS annotations and model description.