I'm Michael Minella,
an engineering leader
based outside of Chicago.
About Me.
I am a result driven engineering leader who believes in investing in relationships to drive exceptional outcomes. Currently I am the Director responsible for the open-source Spring team at Broadcom. Spring is the leading open source Java framework with industry analysts estimating approximately 65% of the Java market uses Spring.
Beyond my current role, I am a Java Champion, speaker, author, and software engineer with over 21 years of enterprise development experience. During my tenure with the Spring team over the past 12 years, I have had the privilege of serving as the lead of Spring Batch (the de facto standard for batch processing on the JVM), founded the Spring Cloud Task project, and was a major contributor to Spring Cloud Data Flow. I have spoken internationally on topics including Java, Spring, and open source. I have written two books and a regular member of the OffHeap podcast.
Work History
- Broadcom Director OSS Spring Engineering
- VMware Sr Director OSS Spring Engineering
- Pivotal Director OSS Spring Engineering
- VMware Lead of Spring Batch
- Critical Mass Technology Director
- Trustwave Lead Developer
Awards
- Java Champion 2018
- JavaOne Rockstar JavaOne - 2015
By the numbers.
Years of Leadership Experience
I am passionate about fostering high-performing teams and enhancing developer communities having led the engineering team behind the world's most popular microservices framework for the JVM.
Years of 50% YoY Growth
I led the Spring team through an unparalleled period of growth for the Spring portfolio, including the resulting releases of Spring's native compilation capabilities as well as fostering new projects including Spring Modulith and Spring AI.
Views of Michael's Talks on YouTube
I am a sought-after expert in the domains of Java, Spring, open source, and data processing with extensive expertise that is valued by the community.
Commits to Spring Projects
With over 650 commits on Spring projects including being the number two all-time contributor to Spring Batch and number three all-time contributor to Spring Cloud Task, I have made a significant contribution to the Spring open-source community.
Work Experience.
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Director - OSS Spring Engineering
2023 - Broadcom
- Responsible for the open-source engineering team behind Spring portfolio building the world’s most popular microservices framework for the JVM.
- Led team through Broadcom acquisition with zero voluntary attrition.
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Senior Director - OSS Spring Engineering
2022 - VMware
- Managed the open-source engineering team behind Spring portfolio building the world’s most popular microservices framework for the JVM.
- Drove partnership between Amazon and Spring around running Spring applications on AWS Lambda.
- Delivered briefings to industry analysts on the Spring portfolio roadmap and the state of the Spring community.
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Director - OSS Spring Engineering
2021 - VMware
- Responsible for the teams behind Spring Batch, Spring Cloud, Micrometer, and other parts of the Spring portfolio.
- Served as representative to key foundations including:
- President of the Reactive Foundation
- Eclipse Foundation
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Senior Manager - OSS Spring Engineering
2020 - VMware
- Stewarded redesign and relaunching of https://spring.io, visited by over a million developers a year.
- Managed engineering resources across the Spring portfolio including Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and others.
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Director - OSS Spring Engineering
2018 - Pivotal
- Led the Spring Advisory Architects program embedding Spring R&D engineers with clients enabling them to prove how Spring can accelerate client business objectives resulting in many sales deals and long-lasting business relationships.
- Responsible for all aspects of application development for the world’s most popular batch processing framework for the JVM including roadmap, implementation, release management, community engagement, and promotion via blogs and conference speaking.
- Led the Spring Advisory Architects program engaging Spring R&D engineers with clients enabling them to learn how Spring can accelerate their business objectives resulting in many sales deals and long-lasting business relationships.
- Worked directly with clients to earn Pivotal a position as a “trusted advisor” for clients to further deepen our relationships with clients.
- Managed R&D resources across the Spring portfolio including Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and others.
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Senior Manager - OSS Spring Engineering
2017 - Pivotal
- Responsible for all aspects of application development for the world’s most popular batch processing framework for the JVM including roadmap, implementation, release management, community engagement, and promotion via blogs and conference speaking.
- Coordinated the Spring Advisory Architects program engaging Spring R&D engineers with clients enabling them to learn how Spring can accelerate their business objectives resulting in many sales deals and long-lasting business relationships.
- Worked directly with clients to earn Pivotal a position as a “trusted advisor” for clients to further deepen our relationships with clients.
- Managed R&D resources across the Spring portfolio including Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and others.
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Project Lead - Spring Batch
2013 - Pivotal & 2012 - VMware
- Responsible for all aspects of application development for the world’s most popular batch processing framework for the JVM including roadmap, implementation, release management, community engagement, and promotion via blogs and conference speaking.
- Founded Spring Cloud Task project to enable Spring workloads to be run as ephemeral applications in cloud environments.
- Drove direction of batch processing/ephemeral applications orchestrated via Spring Cloud Data Flow.
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