Jan Machacek

Jan is an enthusiastic Java and Scala programmer with a long history of large and successful systems.

Jan has used the Spring Framework from its earliest versions and then shared his experience with the framework itself and with writing elegant Spring code in Pro Spring and Pro Spring 2.5; he is an expert in most projects in the Spring Portfolio.

Alongside the Spring Framework and Java, Jan has extensive experience in functional and strongly typed programming in Scala. He is the author of Specs2 Spring and Akka Patterns projects which aim to give boost to Java programmers who want to try out Scala.

Jan also shares his expertise and passion for software as the chief editor of the Open Source Journal