Bio

Tech Lead for developer and app platforms on VMware Tanzu. Focused on closing the developer experience gap on Kubernetes. Was a member of the Spring development team starting in 2006 at Interface21, which became SpringSource, later acquired by VMware. Founder of the Spring Integration project. Contributed to Spring Framework, Spring AMQP and several Spring Cloud projects, including Spring Cloud Function, Spring Cloud Stream, and Spring Cloud Data Flow. Author of Spring Integration in Action (Manning). Conference Speaker. Presentations have included: SpringOne, JavaZone, DevNexus, The Server Side Symposium, Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, Adobe MAX, FlashCamp, JS.Everywhere, Big Data TechCon, SOA World, S2G Forums, No Fluff Just Stuff, The Spring Experience, Boston Serverless Meetup, Boston Spark Meetup, and numerous Meetups and User Groups throughout the US and Europe.