About

Vlad Mihalcea is a Java Champion and CEO of Hypersistence, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations optimize their data access technologies. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Vlad is a top contributor to the Hibernate project and is passionate about enterprise systems, data access frameworks, and distributed systems. Vlad has written hundreds of articles about Hibernate on his blog, which has earned him gold badges for the Java, Spring, JPA, and Hibernate tags on StackOverflow. He is also the creator of Hypersistence Optimizer, a tool that helps developers optimize their data access layer. In addition to his work with Hypersistence, Vlad has also worked as a Technical Writer for vladmihalcea.com, where he wrote about designing and building high-performance data access platforms. He has also worked as a Hibernate Developer Advocate for Red Hat, where he revolutionized the Hibernate community by rewriting the documentation, revamping the Hibernate forum, integrating Pull Requests, and providing high-performance optimizations to the Hibernate ORM project. Vlad holds a Master of Science degree in Multimedia Technologies and a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications, both from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca. His tech stack includes Java and Spring. Vlad is also the author of the High-Performance Java Persistence book and video course, which have helped countless developers improve their data access layer performance. With his extensive experience and passion for data access technologies, Vlad is a valuable asset to any organization looking to optimize their systems.