Father, Husband, Programmer, Athlete. Author of @springbootbuch, founder of @euregjug. Java champion working on @springdata at @neo4j and usually breaking things as a service.

Michael Simons is a father, husband and athlete. Michael is also a Java Champion, published author, JUG leader and currently working on Spring Data and Neo4j-OGM at Neo4j. In this role, his main focus is providing first class support of Neo4j in the Spring Environment, but he also made contributions to Testcontainers, Spring Boot, Quarkus and a lot of other projects. Prior to entering the graph space he has been working in the German utility sector, using SQL to compute and predict energy usage for large German transport-grid-operators and energy-producers, way before analytical databases became more mainstream. Up to this day, he likes the declarative nature of SQL (and of course Cypher), to ask machines for answers instead of instructing them to produce a result. Michael is a known speaker at conferences, bridging Java and databases—relational and graph alike—for many years. He is the author of the bestselling https://dpunkt.de/produkt/spring-boot-2/[Spring Boot 2] book, "DuckDB in Action" at Manning and co-author of https://leanpub.com/arc42byexample[arc42 by example], a book about software architecture documentation. All relevant links are on GitHub: https://github.com/michael-simons