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About Colin Yates
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Colin Yates is the Lead of Spring Extensions, part of the Spring Framework stack of solutions, at Skills Matter's partners SpringSource, the creators of Spring. Colin is a JEE Principal Architect and specialises in web based development and regularly teaches Spring courses at Skills Matter.
Colin is a JEE Principal Architect who specialises in web based development. Prior to joining SpringSource in 2006, he was a freelance consultant for 3 years and has worked in a number of environments, both structured and chaotic. Since graduating with a Software Engineering degree in 1997 he has held a number of positions including development lead, principal systems engineer, mentor and professional trainer.
Colin's principal skillset includes mentoring others, architecting complex problems into manageable solutions, optimising development processes and of course, cutting code.
He was first introduced to the Spring framework in January, 2003 by his mentors, Peter Den Haan and David Hewitt, and has never looked back. After a couple of years using the Spring and Hibernate technology stack to good effect, in May 2005 he became one of the early adopters of Spring Web Flow, finally finding the missing item in the web development toolbox.
He is a self confessed addict to the green bar that comes from following Test Driven Development and XP and regularly frustrates new team members by introducing a continuous build environment.
When not hanging around the Spring support forums (forum.springframework.org), Colin can be found out walking with his wife and two dogs, practicing martial arts, attending his local church, or preparing for the arrival of his second child.
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