Jared Anderson
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJared Anderson is a senior software engineer with over two decades at IBM and eight years focused on systems and performance engineering for WebSphere Java and Jakarta EE. He leads performance and delivery efforts for WebSphere, specializing in reducing runtime memory footprint and refactoring performance-critical routines in large Java application servers. An active Open Liberty contributor, he has driven backend improvements such as replacing Hashtable with ConcurrentHashMap and optimizing web container internals to boost efficiency. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, Jared combines hands-on systems programming and architecture with team leadership, preferring low-level design and continual performance tuning over application-level work. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University and a track record of quietly improving enterprise middleware at scale.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Northland Lutheran High School
English
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
memory-management10
performance-optimization10
java10
concurrency10
jsonb9
json9
jsonp9
jax-rs6
jakartaee6
websphere6
openliberty6
websphere-liberty6
rest6
spring-boot6
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1685 reviews, 1253 commits, 1575 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jared focused on performance improvements, refactoring, and bug fixes within the Open Liberty project, specifically related to web container components. They improved efficiency in the handling of internal classes, context processing, and the use of data structures, such as by replacing Hashtable with a ConcurrentHashMap. The user made numerous changes, which include rewriting several performance critical routines to reduce the memory footprint of the runtime.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
jhanders34/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Mar 2025
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:3085 pushes, 53 branches in 7 years 7 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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