Bruce Tiffany
Retired Software Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Tiffany is a retired software engineer with nearly three decades of experience at IBM, where he progressed from process automation and test engineering into leading Level 3 WebSphere support and developing WebSphere security and cloud-native tooling through 2024. He has deep hands-on expertise in JEE, build/release/test automation, and DevOps practices, and contributed to notable open-source projects like Open Liberty with server-side security work on JWT SSO components. Based in Austin, he blends practical production support experience with development of secure, enterprise-grade middleware and observability tooling (Instana, CloudPak). Known for resolving complex merge and integration issues, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to authentication, authorization, and runtime reliability.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Engineering, Bachelors of Engineering at The University of New Mexico
Github Skills (7)
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javas10
openliberty10
jsonwebtoken10
java10
jwt10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - May 2020
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:367 commits, 194 PRs, 80 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bruce's commits primarily involve modifications to the `JwtSsoComponent.java` and related files within the `openliberty/open-liberty` repository, suggesting a focus on the application server's security features. The code changes involve incorporating pieces of pull requests, resolving merge conflicts, and adding functionality related to cookie name validation and the expiration time of JWTs. The user's work likely involves server-side logic, potentially related to authentication and authorization.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
brutif/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - May 2020
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:193 pushes, 116 branches in 2 years 7 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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