Alex Motley
Senior Software Engineer at Infinite Campus
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Motley is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, data-driven Java systems and modernizing enterprise software at companies like Infinite Campus and IBM. He has led migration and modernization efforts for WebSphere and Open Liberty, contributing stability and performance fixes to a high-profile open-source application server. At Infinite Campus he accelerated product development by turning days-long data collection into real-time tooling for analytics and early-warning systems used by educators. Known for mentoring, advocating for testability and observability, and driving agile practices, he combines hands-on back-end engineering with pragmatic product focus. Outside core dev work he’s contributed patents and presented externally, reflecting a mix of technical depth and customer-facing communication.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
English
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Github Skills (17)
caching10
application-server10
java10
javas10
exception-handling10
serialization9
data-serialization9
debug8
debugging8
jndi6
coredump6
linux6
validation6
spring6
websphere-liberty6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 167 commits, 158 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily focus on improving the session cache functionality within the Open Liberty application server. They addressed exceptions during cache operations by adding error handling to several Java files, specifically related to session storage and serialization. Additionally, the user removed tracing of values during serialization/deserialization and fixed a bug to allow for infinite connection timeouts. These changes suggest a focus on stability, error handling, and performance tuning for the application server.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
alexsm82/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:123 pushes, 149 branches in 4 years 5 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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