Manuel Jordan Elera is an autodidactic developer and researcher who enjoys learning new technologies for his own experiments and creating new integrations.

Manuel won the 2010 Springy Award – Community Champion and Spring Champion 2013. In his little free time, he reads the Bible and composes music on his guitar. Manuel is a Senior Member in the Spring Community Forums, known as dr_pompeii.

Manuel has acted as Technical Reviewer for these books (all published by Apress):

Pro SpringSource dm Server (2009)

Spring Enterprise Recipes (2009)

Spring Recipes (Second Edition) (2010)

Pro Spring Integration (2011)

Pro Spring Batch (2011)

Pro Spring 3 (2012)

Pro Spring MVC: With Web Flow (2012)

Pro Spring Security (2013)

Pro Hibernate and MongoDB (2013)

Pro JPA 2 (Second Edition) (2013)