David Ward
Manager, Software Engineering at Red Hat
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Ward is a seasoned software engineering manager and enterprise architect with over three decades of industry experience and 15 years in leadership roles at Red Hat, currently managing the team delivering Istio for OpenShift Service Mesh. He blends deep hands-on systems engineering—from containerized JBoss/OpenShift images and Drools decision services to high-availability cluster membership and automation tooling—with people and program management across open-source projects like Drools and OptaPlanner. David has a track record of shipping complex cloud-native middleware and business automation solutions, having authored deployment templates, middleware images, and integration components that enable customers to run enterprise workloads on Kubernetes. An active contributor to Red Hat’s openshift-quickstarts, he’s implemented KIE Server images and multiple client interaction modes (REST, JMS), showing both practical integration skills and protocol-level expertise. Based in Rochester, NY, he combines pragmatic engineering with cross-functional collaboration and a knack for turning legacy enterprise systems into scalable cloud deployments.
15 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Español, Español at Monroe Community CollegeBA Communication Arts, BA Communication Arts at Roberts Wesleyan University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
drools10
java10
rest-api9
jms9
xstream8
junit8
maven7
grammar6
tree-sitter6
parsing6
converter6
antlr6
openshift5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jboss-openshift/openshift-quickstarts
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
Quickstarts used by templates in github.com/jboss-openshift/application-templates
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 24 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the development of a decision server quickstart, including the creation of a KIE Server image and client implementations. Their work involved defining and implementing rules using Drools, and creating client applications to interact with the KIE server. They also implemented different ways to interact with KIE Server, including REST and JMS-based communication. The user further refined the quickstart by addressing issues related to JMS configuration and servlet interfaces.
jbossopenshift
errantepiphany/jboss-kie-modules
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
Shared Modules for RHDM and RHPAM OpenShift container images
Contributions:359 pushes, 155 branches in 9 months
rhpamdockercontainer-imagesopenshiftrhdm
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