Spencer Gibb is a Principal Software Engineer for Pivotal, Inc.

His interests include distributed systems, jvm languages, web services frameworks, message-driven architectures and making software development simpler. He loves to create software to solve a pain point, such as creating a tool to automate workstation setup in his free time.

At Pivotal he is the co-founder and co-lead of the Spring Cloud Core projects.

His industry experience has taken him from early e-commerce platforms to government and non-profit organization s to business intelligence startups. He has extensive java experience and experience in other languages such a s scala and python. His database experience runs from Oracle and MySQL to Riak and Cassandra.

His blog is located at https://spencer.gibb.us