Jay Balunas
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Managed Application Services
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorJay Balunas is a seasoned engineering leader with 18 years of experience who currently leads Managed Application Services at Red Hat, focusing on making emerging open technologies easier for developers to consume. He combines hands-on full-stack development skills—evident from contributions to well-known JBoss EAP quickstarts—with a track record of building and scaling remote teams, navigating integrations and acquisitions, and delivering product strategy end-to-end. A 12+ year veteran of remote leadership and a 16+ year open source contributor and community governance advisor (Knative, Node.js, JCP), he excels at aligning business, community, and technical stakeholders through servant leadership and trust. Known for executive-level advocacy and public speaking at venues like Red Hat Summit and JavaOne, he brings both technical depth in cloud-native/serverless platforms and a pragmatic focus on developer experience.
18 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
jboss-eap10
javascript10
web-application10
api-design10
restful-api10
css10
jsonp10
java10
javas10
webapp10
jax-rs10
html10
rest-api10
web-development10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jboss-developer/jboss-eap-quickstarts
Dec 2011 - Apr 2012
The quickstarts demonstrate JBoss EAP, Jakarta EE 10 and a few additional technologies. They provide small, specific, working examples that can be used as a reference for your own project.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to front-end and back-end development within the JBoss EAP Quickstarts repository. Their work included creating new HTML5 Mobile quickstarts, adding features like JSONP support, and updating the JAX-RS URLs for service access. The commits also involved modifying code related to the data model and UI components, and the deployment configuration of the application, showcasing a full-stack skillset. They also performed tasks like the addition of table names to the database and updating the context path.
jboss-eap
aerogear-attic/collateral
Feb 2012 - Sep 2012
Misc project collateral such as meeting agendas, notes, etc..
Contributions:39 commits in 7 months
notescollateralagendasmisc
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