About the Author

Marko Lukša is a software engineer with more than 20 years of professional experience developing everything from simple web applications to full ERP systems, frameworks, and middleware software. He took his first steps in programming back in 1985, at the age of six, on a second-hand ZX Spectrum computer his father had bought for him. In primary school, he was the national champion in the Logo programming competition and attended summer coding camps, where he learned to program in Pascal. Since then, he has developed software in a wide range of programming languages.

In high school, he started building dynamic websites when the web was still relatively young. He then moved on to developing software for the healthcare and telecommunications industries at a local company, while studying computer science at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Eventually, he ended up working for Red Hat, initially developing an open source implementation of the Google App Engine API, which utilized Red Hat’s JBoss middleware products underneath. He also worked in or contributed to projects like CDI/Weld, Infinispan/JBoss Data-Grid, and others.

Since late 2014, he has been part of Red Hat’s Cloud Enablement team, where his responsibilities include staying up-to-date on new developments in Kubernetes and related technologies and ensuring the company’s middleware software utilizes the features of Kubernetes and OpenShift to their full potential.