Aleš Justin was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia and graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Ljubljana. He fell in love with Java long ago and has spent most of his time developing information systems, ranging from customer service to energy management. He joined Red Hat in 2006 to work full time on the Microcontainer project, later founded CapeDwarf project, while still contributing to Cloud Enablement, ApplicationServer, Weld, Ceylon and many other JBoss projects. He's currently freelancing, crafting distributed and highly concurrent Spring(Boot), Kafka, Infinispan, GCP/K8s, etc apps.