An airhacks.fm conversation with Ales Justin (@alesj) about:

Early computing experiences with spectrum 48ZX and game development in Yugoslavia,

progression from Basic to Pascal to C/C++ and eventually Java,

mathematics education and its application to programming,

working on energy consumption analysis applications for Slovenian companies,

transitioning from a big IT company to a startup focusing on energy sector software,

implementing Spring deployer for JBoss and contributing to open source,

joining JBoss/Red Hat after impressing Bill Burke and Mark Fleury with Spring-JBoss integration,

working on JBoss microcontainer with Adrian Brock and emphasis on precise testing,

development of CapeDwarf as a JBoss implementation of Google App Engine APIs,

collaboration with Google on TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) development,

solving concurrency bugs for a billion-dollar kitten app company using Cape Dwarf clustering,

transition to cloud technologies with kubernetes and openshift integration,

brief departure to work on cryptocurrency exchange using Spring Boot and Kafka,

experiencing and solving Kafka / Strimzi issues on Google Cloud Platform,

returning to Red Hat to work on Strimzi and eventually quarkus,

focus on runtime systems and reactive programming with grpc and observability,

importance of open source contribution and community engagement,

evolution from monolithic application servers to cloud-native microservices architecture