Mert alkan is a Coder living in Ankara, Turkey. He has over 10 years' expertise in software development in the architectural design of enterprise Java applications. He is an open-source advocate for software projects such as PrimeFaces, and has also been committer to, and founder of, various others. Currently, he also works as a consultant for Payara Application Server. He is a co-author of PrimeFaces Cookbook by Packt Publishing and co-author of Beginning Spring by Wiley Publications. He is an occasional author for Oracle Java Magazine. He is the founder of AnkaraJUG, which is the most active JUG in Turkey. In 2014, he was recognized as a Java Champion for his achievements. He is a part-time lecturer at Hacettepe University on Enterprise Web Application Architectures and Web Services. He shares his knowledge at national and international conferences such as JavaOne 2016, JDays 2015, JavaOne 2013, JDC2010, and JSFDays'08. You can reach Mert via his twitter handle: @mertcal.