Jason Yong
Senior Software Engineer at IBM Hursley Laboratories
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Yong is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years in hands-on engineering roles at IBM Hursley Laboratories and a broader IBM tenure dating back to 2001, specializing in Java runtimes, cloud-native reactive platforms, and testing for enterprise middleware. He led efforts to open-source OpenJDK with OpenJ9—delivering repositories for Java 8–11 and contributing commits to OpenJDK—while helping port the project to z/OS. More recently he is integrating Lightbend’s Reactive Platform into IBM’s private cloud, combining deep runtime knowledge with cloud deployment expertise. His background spans full-lifecycle testing, security-focused QA, and automation (JUnit/NodeUnit), plus cross-team collaboration across the US, India and mainframe teams. Comfortable translating customer and platform constraints into reliable releases, he also holds Chartered Engineering recognition and an MEng in Electronic Engineering with Computing from the University of York. An understated strength is his long experience bridging legacy mainframe environments and modern cloud-native stacks—a rare combination in enterprise Java engineering.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) 2:1, Electronic Engineering with Computing, Master of Engineering (MEng) 2:1, Electronic Engineering with Computing at University of York
Github Skills (37)
operator10
websphere10
deploying10
application-server10
seccomp10
docker-image10
qos10
websphere-liberty10
java10
server10
runtime-environment10
bind10
garbage-collector9
kubernetes9
virtual-machine9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WASdev/websphere-liberty-operator
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Deploy and manage containerized Liberty applications on Kubernetes. Documentation: https://ibm.biz/wlo-docs
Contributions:28 reviews, 55 commits, 50 PRs in 11 months
websphereopenshiftoperatorhelmseccomp
yongja79/open-liberty
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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