💡 Java Champion | Technical Agile Coach | Software Crafter
I help teams deliver clean, secure, and reliable software while fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
Driven by curiosity, continuous improvement, and problem-solving, I believe in crafting software with care — from architecture to production.
🏆 Recognized as a Java Champion for contributions to the Java and Spring ecosystem.
- Java & Spring Boot — deep expertise across microservices, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise applications
- Cloud Native Buildpacks & Paketo — enabling fast, portable, and reproducible container builds
- Spring AI, LLMs & Agentic Systems — practical AI integration in enterprise Java applications
- Observability — Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing
- Automation, Testing & Security — sustainable software quality through CI/CD and DevSecOps practices
- Open-source contributions — guided by the Boy Scout Rule: leave things better than I found them
If you attended one of my talks or workshops, you can find the code below — most recent first:
| # | Talk / Deep Dive | Key Topics |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop Prompting, Start Planning — Agentic AI with Embabel | GOAP, agentic AI, Embabel, enterprise Java agents |
| 2 | Building Modular Monoliths in the Real World | Spring Modulith, modular architecture, domain-driven design |
| 3 | Buildpacks Unpacked: Custom AOT Caching | Paketo buildpacks, AOT caching, custom buildpack extensions |
| 4 | Spring Boot Observability in Practice | Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes |
| 5 | Spring Boot in the Cloud: Advanced Optimization Deep Dive | Memory reduction, startup time, Spring AOT, JVM tuning, hands-on workshop |
| 6 | Green Coding with Spring Boot | Sustainable software, resource efficiency, cloud cost optimization |
| 7 | Demystifying Spring Boot Magic | Auto-configuration, @Conditional, custom Spring Boot starters |
| 8 | Understanding Buildpacks | Cloud Native Buildpacks, Paketo, lifecycle internals, CI/CD |
| 9 | Intelligent Applications with Spring AI | LLMs, Spring AI, chat, image generation, audio transcription |
| 10 | Soul Mates and Partners in Crime | Spring Boot vs Quarkus, GraalVM native, framework comparison |
| 11 | Exploring Spring Boot Clients | HTTP clients, interface clients, REST, database connectors |
| 12 | Insights From a Spring Boot Leisure Project | Buildpacks, GitHub Actions, Docker, GraphQL, API design |
| 13 | Lean Spring Boot Applications for the Cloud | Spring AOT, startup time, memory footprint, observability |
| 14 | Spring Boot 3.0 is Coming! | Java 17, Jakarta EE, GraalVM native images, Spring Boot Migrator |
- Conference & Meetups — I enjoy speaking and running hands-on workshops on Java, Spring Boot, cloud-native, and AI
- Coaching & Training — happy to start with a short discovery call
🌐 patbaumgartner.com
📬 contact@patbaumgartner.com
