Michael Minella is an engineer, Java Champion, speaker, & author with over 24 years of enterprise development experience. He has been a member of the Spring OSS team for over 13 years and currently serves as the Director responsible for Spring R&D. Formerly he lead the Spring Batch project and was the founder of the Spring Cloud Task project. Michael has spoken on topics that include Java and Spring & is a JavaOne Rockstar. He was a member of the expert group for JSR-352 (java batch processing) & is a committer on the Jakarata EE JBatch project. Michael is the author of The Definitive Guide to Spring Batch and the regular curmudgeon on the podcast OffHeap (https://javaoffheap.com/).