Christopher Dettlaff
Software Engineer at IBM
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Dettlaff is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of recent experience focused on WebSphere Application Server for IBM Cloud, bringing decades-long industry experience that stretches back to early roles at Seer Technologies and Nortel. He excels in Agile environments and has a proven track record delivering complex server-side solutions and supporting production systems, able to operate independently, as a peer, or as a team leader. Christopher contributes to open-source cloud tooling—most notably improving IBM’s WebSphere Liberty buildpack to better handle Java overlays and replacements and to more accurately detect Liberty application types. Based in Apex, North Carolina, he combines deep legacy telecom and enterprise software knowledge with modern cloud-native practices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem-solving and for bridging the gap between build/runtime behavior and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Stackoverflow
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115reached
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Github Skills (12)
javas10
azure-deployment10
websphere10
web-deployment10
autodeploy10
java10
buildpack10
ruby10
file-management9
rspec9
websphere-liberty6
ibm-cloud6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
cloudfoundry/ibm-websphere-liberty-buildpack
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Buildpack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Buildpack, focusing on improving the buildpack's ability to handle Java overlays and replacements. They implemented features to correctly copy `.java-overlay` and `.java-replacement` files during the application push process for both WAR/server directory and server package (zip) deployments. The user also updated the detect method output to provide more informative identification of the Liberty application type. Finally, they enabled java-overlay for JAR files.
webspherebuildpacklibertyliberty-serveribm
dettlaff/collections
May 2020 - May 2020
Kabanero Collections
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
dataminingkabaneromachine-learningabaqusblas
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