Dustin Schultz is a Lead Software Engineer and a technology evangelist at heart. He loves all things tech, and you can often find him geeking out about the latest technology. Dustin loves to learn and has always wanted to know how everything works, so much that when he was little, his mom bought him a book on, "how things work" because she got tired of all his questions. He holds a Bachelors and a Masters in Computer Science, and is a full stack developer with the majority of his experience in J
... moreava, Spring, Hibernate, Spring Boot, Maven, AngularJS, and "The Cloud". Don't let that fool you though, he'll learn and use any technology that fits the need. You can learn more about him or read his ramblings on his blog.
Bryan is a Director at Software Technology Group, a consulting company based out of Salt Lake City, and has authored and taught numerous courses in Java. Over the years, Bryan has taught courses on Java Certifications, JPA, Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, Maven, RESTful Services, Selenium, Automated Testing, CAS, and various security topics.
Dan Bunker is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Monolith Brands Group, an eCommerce company based in Brooklyn, New York. Dan has used a variety of technologies throughout his career. He currently has expertise with Java, Ruby, Python and JavaScript languages and related technologies. In addition to a passion for software development (SaaS), Dan enjoys mentoring, training and advising engineers and developers in their careers.
Jesper is an experienced independent software developer. He designs and builds efficient, high-quality software in Java and other JVM languages. He loves the creativity of inventing and building software systems and he loves to teach and share his knowledge with other developers to help them write clean, efficient, well-designed and maintainable code.
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a Senior Software Engineer from Rabwah, Pakistan, and likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, five times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing
... more and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field. Afzaal is an active open source contributor on GitHub and GitLab, you can find him as afzaal-ahmad-zeeshan.
Steven Haines has worked as a software architect for the last twenty years, most recently as a principal software architect at Turbonomic, focused on their cloud offering. He spent seven years in various architect roles at Disney, beginning as a technical architect on Disney's MyMagic+ program and finishing his tenure as a lead solution architect and principal application architect, overseeing large projects ranging from rolling out Disney Shanghai, replacing the online ticket sales website for
... morethe Hong Kong Disney Resort, and moving PhotoPass to a serverless architecture. He has a passion for application performance and scalability and has spent time working on Application Performance Management applications at Quest Software and AppDynamics. He's the author of Java 2 From Scratch (QUE, 1999), Java 2 Primer Plus (SAMS, 2002), and Pro Java EE Performance Management and Optimization (Apress, 2006). He was the Java Host on InformIT.com, where he contributed weekly articles about Java for nearly ten years, he's a regular contributor to JavaWorld, and he wrote over two dozen white papers on performance, scalability, and cloud-based architectures. He taught computer science and Java courses at Learning Tree University as well as the University of California, Irvine. In his spare time he focuses on building his technical and business acumen by reading books, taking online courses, and building new applications, and spends as much time as he can with his family: his wife Linda of almost 20 years, his son Michael (17), and his daughter Rebecca (9).
Wojciech is a Technical Lead and Scrum Master. He has over 15 years' experience in software development working in a variety of industries from financial services and online gaming. He has extensive experience with anything Java, Spring framework, Microservices and has a passion for developing secure and scalable applications.
Andrew is an independent consultant with cross-functional expertise in the design, development, and deployment of enterprise level software systems. Working with various clients, Andrew has been exposed to many different technology stacks, most recently specializing in Java microservices and continuous delivery. Andrew is actively involved in the wider community, presenting at international conferences, delivering training courses, contributing to open source, and writing for InfoQ.
Kevin Cunningham is a Northern Ireland-based Developer Educator, speaker, and writer. His expertise spans web development across various languages and frameworks. As a developer, he has worked with libraries, universities and large publishing companies to deliver powerful and versatile web based experiences. As a consultant, he specializes in guiding teams through technology stack migrations, ensuring effective code architecture and developer practices. He has a lifelong dedication to education
... moredemonstrated through the diverse learning experiences he creates, both online and in-person. Away from the keyboard, Kevin enjoys outdoor activities like walking, climbing and kayaking with his family.
Software Engineer by day, Pluralsight author by night, Bogdan likes to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and teach about them. His favorite talking subjects are streaming data, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud technologies.
He has several years of experience “cooking” software with JVM based languages, some flavors of web technologies, and garnishing with automated testing.
He holds a BS in Robotics where he spent countless hours programming microcontrollers an
... mored IoT devices and of course, building robots. There, he discovered his passion, designing, and coding complex systems so he pursued his dream and became a self-taught programmer.
Esteban Herrera has more than fifteen years of experience in the software development industry. He has worked in many roles and projects, but mostly architecting and developing enterprise systems with Java and Javascript. Nowadays, he spends all of his time learning new things, writing articles, teaching programming, and enjoying his kids.