Shaozhuang Liu has over seven years of experience in Java EE, and now as a senior member of the Hibernate development team, his main focus is the Hibernate ORM open source project. He's also interested in building cool things based on open source hardware, such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi. When he is not coding, traveling and snowboarding are the two favorite activities he enjoys.

Murat Yener completed his BS and MS degree at Istanbul Technical University. He has taken part in several projects still in use at the ITU Informatics Institute. He has worked for Isbank's Core Banking Exchange project as a J2EE developer. He has also designed and completed several projects still in the market by Muse Systems. He has worked for TAV Airports Information Technologies as an Enterprise Java and Flex developer. He has worked HSBC as the Project Leader responsible for Business Processes and Rich client user interfaces. He is currently employed at Eteration A.S. as Principal Mentor, working on several projects including Eclipse Libra Tools, GWT, and Mobile applications (both on Android and iOS).

He is also leading Google Technology User Group Istanbul since 2009, and is a regular speaker at conferences, such as JavaOne, EclipseCon, EclipsIst, and GDG meetings.