Peter is a well-rounded enterprise software developer, with experience in both product development and consulting for well-known companies across many industries. He has been an active member of the Spring community for over ten years, after first discovering Spring 1.0 through self-study as part of an internal application project. Peter has been a developer in almost every major Java-based technology on the planet. He also instructed users for 5 years through his blog, "It's Only Software".