Ethan Fritz
Advisory Delivery Consultant at IBM
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Fritz is an advisory delivery consultant and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience modernizing CI/CD and build systems for enterprise Java runtimes. At IBM he drove major migrations from legacy tools to a custom CI Orchestrator and Jenkins, cutting pipeline times by up to 50% and improving test reliability to 99.99% for large Open Liberty and WebSphere workloads. He combines deep Java, DevOps and mainframe tooling expertise—spanning Gradle, Maven, GitHub Actions, z/OS, and DBB—to deliver measurable operational savings and faster releases. A key contributor to the popular Open Liberty project, he has improved build caching, vulnerability scanning, and Gradle upgrades to accelerate builds across thousands of modules. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, automation-driven scaling, and clear technical leadership that turns complex enterprise constraints into repeatable engineering wins.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Economics, BS, Computer Science and Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
French, English
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Github Skills (8)
javas10
gradlew10
build-automation10
java10
gradle10
osgi9
dependency-management9
maven7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:95 reviews, 268 commits, 361 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ethan's contributions primarily focused on improving the build process and integrating tools for the Open Liberty application server. This involved enabling build caching and upgrading Gradle, which would accelerate build times. Additionally, the user worked on incorporating the ossindex plugin for vulnerability scanning. Furthermore, the user added a new component to resolve features, and organized Gradle scripts and resources.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
fritze2/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Mar 2025
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:1 PR, 422 pushes, 175 branches in 7 years 7 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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