Bio

Mark Heckler is a Principal Cloud Advocate for Java/JVM Languages at Microsoft, conference speaker, author of Spring Boot: Up & Running and co-author of other dev books, Java Champion, & Google Developer Expert in Kotlin focusing upon developing production-ready software at velocity for cloud and edge computing platforms. He has worked with key players in numerous industries and various public sector organizations to develop and deliver critical capabilities on time and on budget. Mark is an open source contributor and author/curator of a developer-focused blog (Hecklers in Development, brewing stronger Java) and an occasionally interesting Twitter account (@mkheck).