Alex Butcher
OpenLiberty And WebSphere Development at IBM
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Butcher is an experienced software engineer with eight years of professional experience and a long-standing career at IBM focused on WebSphere, WSRR, OpenLiberty and API Connect. He has progressed from performance analysis and z/OS infrastructure specialization to development lead roles overseeing API testing, monitoring and installation efforts, now working on OpenLiberty and WebSphere development. Based in Winchester, England, he combines deep middleware expertise with practical test and release leadership, helping ensure reliable integrations in complex enterprise environments. A first-class Computer Science graduate from the University of Surrey, he brings both low-level performance insight and hands-on deployment experience—an asset when bridging legacy mainframe concerns with modern Java microservices.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computing, 1st, Computer Science, Computing, 1st at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (19)
application-server10
java-api10
openliberty10
ssl9
security9
openssl9
kafka8
cloudevents8
apiconnect8
java7
linux6
centos6
microprofile5
openapi3
server-configuration2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-apiconnect/soa-transfer-tool
Apr 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:7 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 7 months
abutch3r/open-liberty
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 270 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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