Evgeniy Sharapov has been working in the software development field for over 10 years. At the beginning of his career, he wrote software in C and C++ for signals and data processing; he later picked up Java, Python, Ruby, Clojure, and Scala, gradually moving up on the ladder of abstraction levels. For the last few years he has been developing enterprise level applications on Java platform using all sorts of tools and frameworks, such as Spring, Hibernate, iBatis, Drools, JBoss, Webshere, Maven, and Ant, while maintaining interest in fringe software development using Ruby on Rails, TorqueBox, Clojure, and Scala.