Thorben is an independent consultant, international speaker, and trainer specialized in solving Java persistence problems with JPA, Hibernate, and Spring. He is also the author of Amazon’s bestselling book Hibernate Tips - More than 70 solutions to common Hibernate problems.

Thorben has been working with Java and Java EE for almost 20 years and was a member of the CDI 2.0 expert group (JSR 365).

He writes about JPA, Hibernate, and other persistence-related topics on his blog www.thorben-janssen.com.