Alvin Austria is a Java-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and microservices using Java 17, Spring Boot, and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. He has a strong testing muscle set—Selenium, JUnit, Mockito and WireMock—and a history of modernizing legacy codebases, evidenced by contributions to the high-profile eugenp/tutorials repo where he upgraded Spring Cloud and migrated code for JDK 17 compatibility. His career spans finance, insurance, and international development clients (JPMorgan, Macquarie, Manulife, ADB, Volvo), and includes leadership experience as a chapter lead at ING. Based in Barcelona, he pairs Oracle Java certification and practical SQL/WebLogic skills with hands-on observability tooling like Kibana and Grafana. Notably, he blends day-to-day engineering with tech content editing on GitHub, showing an inclination for clear technical communication alongside delivery.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of the Philippines
Contributions:330 reviews, 278 PRs, 262 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alvin's contributions primarily involve refactoring and upgrading existing code, specifically related to Spring Boot and associated dependencies. The commits demonstrate an effort to modernize the codebase by migrating from deprecated URL constructors to URI constructions. Further contributions highlight the upgrade of Spring Cloud Security to JDK 17 and upgrades to various libraries such as Mockito and Guava. The user also made changes in several modules, including core-java and apache-poi demonstrating a broad range of involvement across the project.
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Alvin Austria - Software Engineer at T-Systems Iberia