Kevin Gilmore is a software developer in Austin, Texas, and he's been writing code in Java for over 15 years. For the past five years, he has focused mainly on back-end web development using the Spring framework, Spring Data with JPA and Hibernate, Spring MVC, and Spring Boot, and prior to that, he dabbled in DevOps before DevOps was cool. When he's not creating software, he enjoys music, sports, and writing flash fiction and poetry.