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The one with Mark Pollack

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5:00 PM UTC on Monday, Oct 02, 2023

The one with Mark Pollack

The one with Mark Pollack

Oct 2, 2023

In this episode

Please join Nate Schutta and guest Dr. Mark Pollack. Mark has been a core Spring (Java) developer since 2003 and founded its Microsoft counterpart, Spring.NET, in 2004. Mark now leads the Spring AI and Spring CLI projects. He lead the Spring Data, Spring XD, and Spring Cloud Data Flow projects. Prior to working on Spring project, Mark worked in computing in high-energy nuclear physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory and then moved to the financial services industry as a technical lead for front-office trading systems.

Guests

Mark Pollack

Mark Pollack

Mark Pollack is a contributor to many Spring projects dating back to the Spring Framework in 2003. He has founded and been the technical lead for many Spring open source projects such as Spring.NET, Spring Data, and most recently Spring Cloud Data Flow.

Hosts

Nate Schutta

Nate Schutta

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect focused on cloud computing and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books and appeared in various videos. He is a seasoned speaker, regularly presenting at conferences worldwide, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, Nate co-authored the book Presentation Patterns (O’Reilly Media, 2016) with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough. He also recently published Thinking Architecturally (O’Reilly Media, 2018), available as a free download from VMware.

Nate’s presentations cover a variety of topics, ranging from architecture fundamentals to mobile design, usability, cloud computing, JavaScript, and everything in between. His current slate of talks can be found in Talk Abstracts, however additional presentations can also be found at his NFJS Speaker Page. If you are interested in having Nate speak at your event, please reach out.