Aleksa Vukotic is a keen agile practitioner, with experience in team and project management using agile, which has brought success even in the most challenging environments. He has a track record of success with large companies, communicating the value of agile to high-level business stakeholders with little technical knowledge and transforming business requirements into easily understandable and implementable user stories. Turning to technology, Aleksa has been involved with the Spring Framework since early days, becoming an expert in enterprise Java development with Spring, along with other open-source technologies. In addition to his Java EE expertise, Aleksa often utilizes his problem-solving skills to tackle the most complex issues arising within the projects. The combination of high-level management skills and technical knowledge has made Aleksa invaluable in motivating software teams to bring the best out the themselves and make rapid progress toward successful project delivery. His experience includes working with large and small teams on all levels from high level management, planning, and architecture to low-level technical implementation. Aleksa has co-authored Pro Spring 2.5, published by Apress, and has had several articles published in respectable open-source publications. Outside of the working environment, Aleksa enjoys following football and exploring the latest technology gadgets.