Brian Sam-Bodden is a Principal Applied AI Engineer at Redis as well as an author, instructor, speaker, developer advocate, and open-source contributor and Java Champion who has spent over thirty years crafting software systems. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics and a Master's in Data Science from Harvard University. Brian is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad and is the author of “Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry”, co-author of the “Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies” and a contributor to O'Reilly's “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”.