About the Authors

Alon Rotem is a soulful geek and musician. His encounters with code go back to his teenage years in the mid-1980s, where he discovered the ATARI 800 8-bit computers and the BASIC programming language. His days in the actual tech industry, all around software engineering, go back to the mid-1990s, the days of DOS, Windows 3.1, and prehistoric Red Hat distributions.

Since then, he has worked as a quality assurance engineer, a software engineer, a lecturer, an educational manager, a solutions consultant, a team lead, a tech lead, a solution enterprise architect and a senior engineer at one of the most well-known database companies, the MariaDB Foundation. He has been managing a team of software architects for one of the big four global accounting companies, KPMG. He also established and created a certification program for one of the biggest enterprise-level content management systems, Sitefinity, being one of the senior engineers who had built it firsthand for the most successful Bulgarian software company, Telerik.

Apart from his work, he is an active hacker and developer, always exploring technological solutions, workarounds, free alternatives, and hacks, and is an avid supporter of Linux and open-source software.

He studied computer science at the Open University of Israel, and in recent years has been living and working on both ends of East and West Europe.

He is also an electro-acoustic musician whose works can be found on all major streaming platforms, as well as on his personal site.