Jim Mitchener
Sabbatical
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorJim Mitchener is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years' experience specializing in identity systems and JVM-focused back-end technologies, now on sabbatical in Portland, Oregon. He helped transition on-prem identity products to managed cloud services at ForgeRock, building orchestration infrastructure in Go and Kubernetes on GCP and driving persistence, clustering, and synchronization work on OpenIDM. His background spans full-stack and scientific data systems using Scala, Java, Python, and ElasticSearch, with early work across mobile, Rails, and JEE stacks—an indicator of strong adaptability across paradigms. Pragmatic and systems-minded, he combines deep distributed systems experience with hands-on operational knowledge of clusters and server administration. Currently reflecting on capital markets and his technical trajectory, he brings both large-scale engineering chops and a penchant for thoughtful career design.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
8,955reputation
879kreached
107answers
28questions
webdriver
top-5%
postgresql
top-1%
selenium
top-5%
capybara
top-5%
Github Skills (46)
openidm10
postgresql10
identity10
scripting9
opendj9
webdriver9
selenium9
rbac9
java9
security9
spring9
capybara9
identity-management9
cybersecurity9
bpmn9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jmitchener/skel
Jan 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:173 pushes, 6 branches, 1 comment in 9 years
jmitchener/awesome
May 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
linuxwindowwindow-manager
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