Alex Snaps is a software engineer at Terracota Inc, with significant experience in web application development and highly concurrent systems. Before working on the Terracotta platform and product line, he participated in medium to large projects as coach, development lead and architect. He speaks regularly about Java development at events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, Devoxx, JavaZone, Jazoon or XP Days as well as JUGs around the globe. He is currently working on Ehcache, the Quartz enterprise scheduler and the Terracotta Toolkit.