Vlad Mihalcea is a Java Champion, creator of [Hypersistence Optimizer](https://vladmihalcea.com/hypersistence-optimizer/) and [Hypersistence Utils Open-Source project](https://github.com/vladmihalcea/hypersistence-utils).
He is passionate about communities, technical leadership, system architecture, and database systems.
He wrote hundreds of articles about Java, JPA, Hibernate, and SQL on [his blog](https://vladmihalcea.com), and he is the author of the [High-Performance Java Persistence book](https://vladmihalcea.com/books/high-performance-java-persistence/) and [video course](https://vladmihalcea.com/courses/) series.