Simon Martinelli is a Java Champion and an Oracle ACE Associate, and he received the Vaadin Community Award in 2021 and 2022 due to his commitment to the Java and Vaadin communities.

He regularly shares his knowledge in articles, speaks at international conferences, and writes his blog: https://martinelli.ch. His current interest is increasing the efficiency of full-stack development with Java.

He owns 72 Services LLC and has worked as a software architect, developer, consultant, and trainer for three decades, especially in the Java Enterprise environment.

Besides his work, he has been a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH and the University of Applied Science Northern Switzerland FHNW for modern architecture and integrating distributed systems and persistence technologies with Java and DevOps since 2007. He also served as an expert group member of JSR-352 Java Batch and JSR-354 Money and Currency.