Nicolas Leroux is a senior architect and Technical Director at Lunatech, having joined in 2001. Nicolas is an expert early adopter of the Java Enterprise platform as well as the open-source technologies that gravitate around it. He applies this experience and technical expertise of the middleware platform on Lunatech's projects and for Lunatech's clients Nicolas is also an open source enthousiast and more specifically a Java enthusiast. He is the co-founder of the Benelux JBoss User Group and the Riviera Java User Group . He also contributes to the open source frameworks he uses by committing patches. Since 2009, Nicolas has had a passion for the Play framework and is now a core developer of its open-source project.