Ben Alex

Dr Ben Alex is a Principal Software Engineer with SpringSource, and has been working professionally in software since 1995. He is well known for Spring Security, which he founded in 2003 and continues to lead. Spring Security is a popular, open-source security framework that is used in numerous government, banking and military installations. Whilst written in Java, the success of Spring Security has seen its architecture ported to other platforms such as Microsoft .NET and Python.

Ben's career history also includes other accomplishments in software development and business. From 2005 until 2008, he led the establishment and exponential growth of SpringSource's operations in Asia-Pacific. Prior to SpringSource, Ben founded and grew a successful Australian software company, Acegi Technology Pty Limited. In his spare time, he has been a director and advisor to businesses in industries as diverse as business services, intellectual property licensing and ecommerce.

In recent years Ben has presented at technology conferences including The Spring Experience (2005, 2006, and 2007), SpringOne (2006 and 2007), The Server Side Java Symposium (2007 and 2008), JAOO (2008) and JavaOne(2008). He is a regular guest presenter at user groups across the world, with recent appearances in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Singapore, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Stockholm. He also authored the security chapter of the Wiley book, "Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework"

Ben's Blog can be found at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/bena/.