Thomas Vitale is a software engineer focused on building cloud native solutions, currently working at Systematic in Denmark. He is the author of the “Cloud Native Spring in Action” book and plays an active role in the cloud native ecosystem as a CNCF Ambassador, Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, and Testcontainers Community Champion.
Some of his main interests and focus areas are Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Generative AI, and cloud native technologies in general. He supports continuous delivery practices and believes in a collaboration culture aimed at working together to deliver value to users, customers, and businesses.
He's the creator and maintainer of the Arconia open-source project, a collection of libraries and tools to enhance developer experience and cloud native patterns for Java applications.
Thomas contributes to various open-source projects in the Java and cloud-native space, including Spring AI, LangChain4j, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Carvel, Dapr, and Buildpacks. He is also passionate about sharing his expertise with the community through talks, workshops, and writing on technical topics. His speaking engagements include those for KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Devoxx, Spring I/O, GOTO, Jfokus, SpringOne, Voxxed Days, DevBcn, and KCD.
He has an MSc in Computer Engineering, specializing in software from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy). He is a CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development, and Pivotal Certified Spring Professional.
• Software Engineer on the Columna Cura project for supporting home care, social services and help to citizens.
• Specialised in developing back-end solutions with Java EE and Spring. Lead the development of features aimed at ensuring a high degree of security and data privacy.
• Currently working on modernising our platforms and applications for the cloud-native world.
• Work in an Agile team as Scrum Master (from January 2020) and Developer, focusing on delivering modern, secure and performant solutions. The product adopts healthcare standards like HL7® FHIR®, MedCom and FSIII.
• Software Engineer Intern on the Simulation Framework project, a software developed by Leonardo Aircraft and adopted in flight simulators mainly for training pilots and instructors.
• The goal was to develop an understanding of the software, determine the main issues, provide a precise analysis, create, define and document the software architecture and finally evaluate it, propose changes and improvements and investigate how to deal with the evolution of the software.
• Aimed also at providing the company with the knowledge and tools needed to maintain the documentation and at developing a general method for software analysis and documentation so that it can be adopted by the company for other projects as well.
• Contributor: 2015 to 2019. Contribute to the works of the following Teams: Support, Polyglots, Community, Meta and Core.
• Organiser: 2016 to 2017. Co-Organiser of WordPress Meetup Torino and WordCamp Torino 2017. Led the Website team made up of 3 people for WordCamp Torino 2017.
• Speaker: 2016 to 2019. Deliver talks about security for web applications, WordPress themes and plugins development at dedicated conferences and events (WordCamp London 2018, WordCamp Torino 2018, WordCamp Oslo 2018, WordCamp Torino 2017, WordPress Meetup Torino 2016)
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At @springio.net, I talked about some of the main features of @arconia.io, a modular toolkit for Spring Boot. Dev services, observability, multitenancy, generative AI, cloud native tooling. Pick what you need. Get a great developer experience.
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Multitenancy is one of the aspects for which I built @arconia.io, a modular toolkit for Spring Boot. Happy to see it used by @starbuxman.joshlong.com in his latest video, integrated with Spring Security and relying on new features he contributed. Thanks, Josh!
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B: “Whoa, let me stop you right here buddy, what you're doing here is extremely, horribly rude.”
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Posted: A new version of Arconia is out! It comes with an improved Ollama Dev Service for Spring AI and it's packed with new features and improveme…Bluesky network·
