Isaac Rivera-rivas
Backend Engineer at IBM
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsaac Rivera-rivas is a Backend Engineer with eight years of experience building and maintaining server-side components, currently contributing to IBM’s Open Liberty and WebSphere Liberty projects from Durham, NC. He specializes in Java and web component technologies—servlets, JSP, JSF, JSTL, and WebSockets—while also bringing strong skills in Python, C/C++, and JavaScript. At IBM he has driven updates for Jakarta EE9 compatibility, debugging, and community guidelines, and contributes to the widely used open-source Open Liberty runtime by cleaning and modernizing code across web container and CDI areas. His background includes full-stack microservices work with Docker, Kubernetes, Node.js, and React, plus research experience in on-device ML and autonomous drone data collection. Comfortable straddling software and hardware domains, he combines production-grade backend engineering with a researcher's attention to low-level performance and testing. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented maintainer who improves project hygiene and long-term reliability behind the scenes.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
jakartaee10
javas10
java10
servlet10
cdi9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:326 reviews, 137 commits, 194 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Isaac primarily worked on cleaning up and fixing comments within the Open Liberty project. Their commits involved removing unnecessary comments and code, as well as deleting files left over from porting. These modifications were made across several files related to the web container, servlet and CDI functionality, and testing applications within the Open Liberty project.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
isaacrivriv/open-liberty
Feb 2020 - Apr 2025
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:27 reviews, 61 PRs, 367 pushes in 5 years 2 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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