Simon Martinelli is Vaadin Community Award winner and the owner of 72 Services LLC and a passionate Java, performance optimization and application integration expert with more than 26 years of experience creating efficient programming solutions as a developer, architect, and technical lead.

An active member of the Java community process, he has made key contributions to JSR-352 Batch Applications, JSR-354 Money, and Currency API. In addition to coaching and teaching clients to optimize IT functions within business environments, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Berne University of Applied Science in Switzerland