Jeff Mesnil is a seasoned software engineer with 19 years' experience building robust, open-source server-side systems, currently at IBM after a long tenure as a senior principal engineer at Red Hat. He specializes in Java application servers and messaging (WildFly, JBoss EAP, ActiveMQ Artemis, HornetQ), with a track record of pragmatic contributions that improve JVM/runtime configuration, JMS bridging, and legacy client support. A committed open-source advocate, all his professional and personal code is public—much of it hosted on GitHub—and he thrives in collaborative, transparent development environments. He combines deep backend expertise with occasional mobile and iOS work (notably an MQTT Objective-C client) and has authored technical material for O’Reilly. Based in Grenoble, France, he brings engineering rigor informed by sustainability and humane values, and pursues photography as an amateur creative outlet.
19 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur, Ingénieur at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rouen
Master's Degree, Master's Degree at INSA Rouen Normandie
Contributions:43 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the `MQTTKit` library, which is an Objective-C MQTT client for iOS. Their work involved initial setup and testing of the library, adding dependencies like `libmosquitto`, and updating the API to use blocks instead of a delegate for callback methods. The user also updated the tests to use an external MQTT broker for testing purposes, and refined the `MQTTMessage` interface.
HornetQ is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1366 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeff focused on adding new examples of JMS message handling with STOMP to the HornetQ core. They incorporated support for STOMP over WebSockets, ensuring proper frame handling, and added functionality for sending and receiving messages via STOMP. Furthermore, they implemented message body processing with headers and improved the management of connection handling and transaction handling.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.