Today we have an incredible person with us, his name is Mark Heckler. He is originally from Illinois, in the United States,  graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he made BS in Science, Information technology and business and then an MBA in Finance. He has more than 25+ years of experience, unique career where in the last years he has been at VMware (the company behind Spring) as a Spring Developer Advocate & Software Engineer.

Mark is an open-source contributor and author/curator of a developer-focused blog (https://www.thehecklers.com) and an occasionally interesting Twitter account (@mkheck).

And a big contributor to the Engineering community being a 2-time book Author with “JavaFX: 8 Introduction by Example” and “JavaFX: 9 Introduction by Example” and Mark is currently writing a solo book for O'Reilly titled Spring Boot: Up & Running!, you can find a preview at OReilly.

He has been debugging and Profiling Robots with James Gosling, created the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition Lab 101: An Introduction, the JFXtras, the Pro JavaFX 8: A Definitive Guide to Building Desktop, Mobile, and Embedded Java Clients and the Oracle University Learning Streams: Websocket.

Today we have the pleasure of having him with us