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, Application Server, Weld, Ceylon and many other JBoss projects. After a short “trip” to crypto space with lots of Kafka, he’s now back at Red Hat, first working on Kafka / Strimzi, but now on Quarkus / gRPC.