About the Author

Ken Kousen is a technical trainer, software developer, and conference speaker specializing in Java and open source topics, including Android, Spring, Hibernate/JPA, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle. He is the author of the O’Reilly book Gradle Recipes for Android and the Manning book Making Java Groovy. He also has recorded several video courses for O’Reilly, on topics such as Android, Groovy, Gradle, Grails 3, Advanced Java, and the Spring Framework.

He has delivered talks at technical conferences all over the world, including giving the keynote addresses at DevNexus in Atlanta, and the Gr8conf events in Minneapolis, Copenhagen, and New Delhi. In 2013 and 2016, he received the JavaOne Rockstar award.

His academic background includes BS degrees in mechanical engineering and mathematics from MIT, an MA and PhD in aerospace engineering from Princeton, and an MS in computer science from RPI. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.