Chris Webster
IT Analyst - Technology Vendor Management Office at State Farm ®
Bloomington, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChris Webster is an IT analyst and aspiring full-stack software engineer with over 14 years of experience managing incident and problem resolution, vendor relationships, and large offsite/offshore development center operations at State Farm. He blends strong service-management discipline (ITIL) and Agile sensibilities with hands-on technical skills across Java, JavaScript/React, Spring, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and AWS. At State Farm he served as the TVMO point of contact for 18+ ODCs and enabled migration of 2,000+ external associates to remote/hybrid access paths, demonstrating both operational leadership and change execution at scale. He contributes to open-source runtime stability work—helping maintain core components of the Open Liberty application server—highlighting a backend focus on reliability and dependency/configuration correctness. With a background in communications and a Galvanize full-stack credential, he uniquely combines clear executive-level communications and incident storytelling with practical development and deployment experience.
8 years of coding experience
Aspiring Software Developer Institute, Full Stack Developer, Aspiring Software Developer Institute, Full Stack Developer at Galvanize IncBachelor of Science (B.S.), Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communication and Media Studies at Crown College
English
Github Skills (7)
javas10
weld10
openliberty10
java10
cdi9
websphere8
osgi8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 29 commits, 41 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on reverting changes related to dependencies and configurations within the Open Liberty application server. These reverts involved updating the Weld dependency to version 3.0.3.Final, changes to classloading configurations, and reverting changes related to SSL and security features. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on ensuring the stability and proper functioning of core components within the Open Liberty runtime environment.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
websterc87/open-liberty
Apr 2018 - Feb 2025
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 10 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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