Vladimir Vivien is a software engineer living in the United States. Past and current experiences include development in Java and .Net for industries including publishing, financial, and healthcare where he worked with a number of varied technologies including user-facing GUI frontends and backend mid-tiers. Vladimir enjoys taking part in open source projects and has contributed JmxBuilder to the Groovy project and is an author of other projects such as JmxLogger. Beside JavaFX, he has a wide range of technology interests including Java, OSGi, Scala, and anything else that runs on the JVM.