Dave Zavala
Advisory Software Engineer at IBM
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDave Zavala is an Advisory Software Engineer with eight years of professional experience, based in the Austin, Texas metropolitan area and currently working at IBM. He focuses on backend development and has contributed to high-profile open-source work on Open Liberty, improving Spring Boot integration, classloader handling, and Java EE feature support to harden application server runtimes. At IBM he blends hands-on coding with architectural problem solving, particularly around dependency management and server templating for cloud-native Java environments. Known for pragmatic improvements that reduce complexity in runtime configuration, he brings practical expertise in making large Java platforms more modular and reliable. Colleagues would describe him as a steady engineer who surfaces subtle runtime issues—like thread context classloader handling—that prevent production incidents.
8 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (15)
javaee10
appserver10
javas10
application-server10
java10
spring-boot10
osgi9
testing8
thread-pool6
xml6
websphere6
jvm6
websphere-liberty6
jmx6
jsp6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:371 reviews, 148 commits, 226 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on the Spring Boot application server runtime environment. Their contributions involved modifying the SpringBootModuleInfo class to handle thread context classloaders, and adjusting several Java EE feature tests for Java EE 7.0 and 8.0 support. Further modifications include the creation of server templates and the filtering of Spring Boot starter dependencies to improve the overall application server environment. Additional changes involved enhancing Spring Boot configuration and dependency management.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
dazavala/open-liberty
Mar 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:425 pushes, 260 branches in 6 years 9 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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