JEXP
JEXP
I’m the Caretaker General of the Neo4j Developer Community (aka Head of Developer Relations)
I write a lot of articles, blog posts and some books and speak at many user groups and conferences. Sometimes I help organize conferences as program chair or track host.
If you want me to speak at your user group or conference, just drop me an email to mailto:contact@jexp.de
Michael Hunger has been passionate about soſtware development for a long time. He is particularly interested in the people who develop soſtware, software craſtsmanship, programming languages, and improving code.
For the last years (since 2010) he has been working with the folks behind the open source Neo4j graph database. As a Developer Relations Engineering Lead he's having fun helping Neo4j users to be successful and happy with their use-cases and projects. Michael is also the project lead of Spring Data Neo4j. Good relationships are everywhere in Michael’s life. His “real” life concerns his family and 3 daughters, teaching girls to code, running, cooking and playing board games.
As a developer he loves to work with many aspects of programming languages, learning new things every day, participating in exciting and ambitious open source projects and writing and contributing to different programming related books. Michael is an active writer, speaker and conference organizer.
1975 Born and raised in Riesa, Eastern Germany
1985 Started coding on paper age 10, due to lack of computer
1987 Got my first computer (KC 85/4) with 12 and used machine code and basic
1989..1983 Attended a special school for nerds, aka maths and sciences
1994..2001 Studied Computer Science in Dresden
1994.. Started to play and live in the MUD MorgenGrauen
1996 Started developing in Java, building 3D-stereoscopic applications
1998 my daughter Selina was born
2001..2004 Worked for 3 years at the university building web applications for people with disabilities
2000.. Started to attend, speak and help organize conferences
2001.. Started and contributed to several Open Source projects
2004..2010: Consulting in Germany, doing Enterprise Java development, team and process improvement and everything else
2005 my daughter Rana was born
2008 my daughter Selma was born
2010.. Began to work with and for Neo4j, building Integration for the Spring Framework, cloud hosting and a lot of libraries and examples
2011.. Became the project lead for Spring Data Neo4j, which became the founding project for the Spring Data efforts, working closely with SpringSource
2011.. Inherited the "Effective Java" bi-monthly column in JavaSpektrum magazine from Heinz Kabutz (Articles)
2012.. Became member of the Neo4j Community Team and then Head of Developer Relations at Neo4j
2014.. Co-Founded jQAssistant an open-source Software Analytics Tool
2018.. Reviewed Refactoring 2nd Edition for Martin Fowler