Sachin Handiekar is a senior software developer with over 5 years of experience in Java EE development. He graduated in computer science from the University of Greenwich, London, and currently works for a global consulting company, developing enterprise applications using various open source technologies, such as Apache Camel, ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, and ZooKeeper.

Sachin has a lot of interest in open source projects. He has contributed code to Apache Camel and developed plugins for Spring Social, which can be found at GitHub (https://github.com/sachin-handiekar).

He also actively writes about enterprise application development on his blog (http://sachinhandiekar.com).

Michael Keane has a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked as a software engineer, coding almost exclusively in Java since JDK 1.1. He has also worked on the mission-critical medical device software, e-commerce, transportation, navigation, and advertising domains. He is currently a development leader for Conversant, where he maintains Flume flows of nearly 100 billion log lines per day.

Michael is a father of three, and besides work, he spends most of his time with his family and coaching youth softball.

Stefan Will is a computer scientist with a degree in machine learning and pattern recognition from the University of Bonn, Germany. For over a decade, he has worked for several start-ups in Silicon Valley and Raleigh, North Carolina, in the area of search and analytics. Presently, he leads the development of the search backend and real-time analytics platform at Zendesk, a provider of customer service software.