Peter Pilgrim is an English professional software developer, designer and sometimes architect. He works in an interdependent contractor in the creative media digital and financial services industries building for e-commerce enterprise web applications for leading household names, bluechip clients. He has contracted or worked with top-tier businesses such as Engine, Transform, LBi and Pearson Group and investment banks like UBS and Credit Suisse. Today, Peter develops Scala software with Play and Akka framework and he is also specialises in Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE 7) technology. Peter is the author two technical books: Digital Java EE 7 and Java EE 7 Developer Handbook. Peter is the 91st Oracle Java Champion.