Martin leads the Spring Tools projects at VMware and works together with the tools team on providing the best developer tools out there for Spring. In addition to that he works on next generation developer tooling and innovative new architectures for cloud-based developer tooling. Before joining the Spring family, Martin co-founded it-agile, a leading consulting and development company focused on agile software development. He is author of papers, articles, and books on various topics including agile software development, Eclipse technology and refactoring techniques.