Ümit Yalcinalp, Ph.D. and a developer evangelist at Salesforce.com.

Ümit Yalcinalp is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com. Ümit is a co-author of the book "Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA"; an editor of various WS-* and SOA specifications, including WS-Policy, WS-Reliable Messaging and WS-Addressing, SCA Policy; co-spec lead of EJB 2.0; a frequent contributor to SOA, XML, Java and WS specifications; an architect who managed teams in developing metadata driven frameworks for RIA, WS/Java platforms; an author of many technical papers concerning software development environments; a speaker at conferences such as SOA Symposium, Java One and Logic Programming. She has a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in CS.