Jarid Kvale
L3 Support Engineer at Merative
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJarid Kvale is an experienced L3 Support Engineer with deep expertise in Java EE and WebSphere technologies, backed by more than two decades of server-side experience and seven years in hands-on enterprise roles. He has a strong track record at IBM—rising through advisory and development roles where he led Level 3 support for kernel, class loaders, OSGi, native process and workload management, and earned multiple serviceability and values awards. Known for exceptional written and verbal communication, he blends high-volume technical support, code triage and fixes, and training delivery to reduce escalations and improve product reliability. Currently at Merative after a brief CyberArk tenure, he excels at being the off-hours escalation point and mentoring teams to practical serviceability improvements. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also has a creative background as a performing songwriter and humor columnist, reflecting strong communication and audience-awareness skills. Based in Sioux Falls, SD, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and long-term product stewardship to complex middleware environments.
7 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at South Dakota State University
Github Skills (18)
application-server10
java10
composable10
server10
runtime-environment10
garbage-collector9
virtual-machine9
footprint9
openjdk9
eclipse9
microservices9
jit8
throughput8
omr8
interpreter8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Oct 2018 - Jun 2024
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:14 reviews, 4 comments, 3 issues in 5 years 8 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
eclipse-openj9/openj9
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Eclipse OpenJ9: A Java Virtual Machine for OpenJDK that's optimized for small footprint, fast start-up, and high throughput. Builds on Eclipse OMR (https://github.com/eclipse/omr) and combines with the Extensions for OpenJDK for OpenJ9 repo.
Contributions:2 comments, 2 issues in 8 months
runtimecompilerextensionseclipseomr
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