About the Author

JOHN CARNELL is a senior cloud engineer at Genesys, where he works in Genesys’s PureCloud division. John spends the majority of his day hands-on building telephony-based microservices using the AWS platform. His day-to-day job centers on designing and building microservices across a number of technology platforms including Java, Clojure, and Go.

John is a prolific speaker and writer. He regularly speaks at local user groups and has been a regular speaker on “The No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium.” Over the last 20 years, John has authored, co-authored, and been a technical reviewer for a number of Java-based technology books and industry publications.

John holds a Bachelor of the Arts (BA) from Marquette University and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

John is a passionate technologist and is constantly exploring new technologies and programming languages. When John isn’t speaking, writing, or coding, he lives with his wife Janet, his three children, Christopher, Agatha, and Jack, and yes, his dog Vader, in Cary, North Carolina.

During his free time (which there’s very little of) John runs, chases after his children, and studies Filipino martial arts.

John can be reached at john_carnell@yahoo.com.