Billy Korando
Developer Advocate
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolBilly Korando is a Developer Advocate and seasoned Java Spring engineer with a decade of experience designing, building, and shipping enterprise web applications and microservices. He has moved systems from conception to production across healthcare and insurance domains, and now helps educate and grow the Java community at Oracle after previous advocacy work at IBM. Skilled in Spring Boot, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes and Istio, he has contributed full‑stack code to notable cloud-native starter projects that streamline Java microservice deployments. Billy combines hands‑on implementation with a focus on developer experience, mentoring, and improving team workflows through automated testing and good design patterns. Based in Kansas City, he brings a practical, production-first mindset and a knack for translating complex platform topics into approachable guidance. An underappreciated strength is his track record of pairing deep implementation work with developer relations to accelerate adoption of cloud‑native Java practices.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Information Systems, Magna Cum Laude, BS, Computer Information Systems, Magna Cum Laude at DeVry University
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Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
docker10
api-design10
restful-api10
microservices-application10
dockers10
java10
javas10
kubernetes-pods10
spring-boot10
rest-api10
microservices10
cloud-native9
swagger7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/cloud-native-starter
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Cloud Native Starter for Java/Jakarta EE based Microservices on Kubernetes and Istio
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Billy contributed significantly to the development of Spring Boot-based microservices for both articles and authors, focusing on both backend and integration aspects. They implemented REST APIs, configured health endpoints and route configurations for the API gateway. The commits also show the user working on building and deploying these services using Docker, Kubernetes, and related tooling.
spring-bootjavascriptmicroprofileistiojakarta
wkorando/welcome-to-junit5-v2
May 2019 - Jul 2021
A group of projects demonstrating JUnit 5 and its many features
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
junit-5javajunit
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