Jessica Rodriguez
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Rodriguez is a software engineer at Red Hat with eight years of experience building secure, hardware-adjacent systems and platform integrations for hybrid cloud consoles. A University of Toronto computer engineering alumnus, she blends low-level firmware expertise from leading CubeSat projects with backend and security work on WildFly and Elytron. Her contributions include hardened security tests and bug fixes in a major Java application server, plus practical cryptography and TLS subsystem work during a WildFly internship. Comfortable across Python, embedded C, and cloud platforms, she also holds RHCSA credentials and a track record automating tests and cross-compiling toolchains for diverse MCUs. Jessica is driven by open source, hardware security, and human-centered problem solving—she has redesigned PCBs, mentored teams, and improved onboarding for student satellite projects. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who connects satellite firmware constraints to production-grade security engineering.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, 3.47 cGPA, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, 3.47 cGPA at University of TorontoHigh School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma, 96%, High School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma, 96% at All Saints Catholic Secondary School
Github Skills (15)
jakartaee10
security10
javas10
mtls10
user-authentication10
authentication10
tls1210
keystore10
tls1310
wildfly10
java10
libtls10
testing10
api8
junit8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
wildfly-security/wildfly-elytron
May 2022 - Dec 2022
WildFly Elytron: Security, Authentication, and Authorization SPIs for the WildFly project
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:50 reviews, 13 commits, 30 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily contributed to security-related test cases within the WildFly Elytron project. Their work included adding new tests for TLS 1.3 authentication with various cipher suites and client/server configurations. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to key store handling and configuration parsing, ensuring robust handling of security credentials and configurations. The user also contributed to test automation, addressing issues that surfaced based on differing environments like Windows and administrator privileges.
wildflyauthorizationsecurityauthenticationelytron
wildfly/wildfly
May 2022 - Aug 2023
WildFly Application Server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the WildFly application server, focusing on issues related to security and the Jakarta EE environment. Their commits addressed problems with principal propagation in Windows environments and improved the detection of injections in the EESecurityAnnotationProcessor. The user also added shared test components, including modules and custom principal transformers, for improved functionality and test coverage.
javawildflydockerapplication-server
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