Jesse Mcconnell
CEO at The Codehaus
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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RockstarJesse Mcconnell is a seasoned software leader and CEO with 20 years of experience building scalable web messaging and server technologies from Omaha, Nebraska. A longtime open-source advocate and committer with leadership roles at the Apache Software Foundation and Eclipse Foundation, he combines executive experience running Webtide with deep hands-on engineering—especially around Jetty and CometD WebSocket integrations. Known for moving between product management and core implementation, he excels at turning novel ideas into production-quality systems and enjoys solving low-level protocol and connection issues. His contributions to the widely used CometD project reflect a rare blend of backend protocol expertise and pragmatic refactoring to keep projects current with evolving Jetty APIs.
21 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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maven
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java
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websocket
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jetty
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Github Skills (18)
server-client10
websocket10
java10
javas10
websockets-client10
client-server10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
jetty10
servlet9
apidoc9
api9
maven9
tomcat6
junit6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cometd/cometd
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
The CometD project, a scalable comet (server push) implementation for web messaging.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the CometD project by implementing and refining WebSocket support, specifically integrating with Jetty 9. They addressed issues related to WebSocket connections, including closing prematurely. The user's work involved modifying client and server-side code, and refactoring to improve the WebSocket implementation. They also updated the project to incorporate the latest Jetty client API methods.
cometdserver-push
jmcc0nn3ll/jetty-buildpack
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:70 commits in 2 months
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