John Ament
Software Architect at Contrast Security, Inc.
Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Ament is a Software Architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping JVM-based backend systems, now based in Mansfield Township, NJ. He combines deep expertise in Java and distributed data stores with practical contributions to notable open-source projects like ModeShape, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis, and Apache CXF. His work often focuses on connector integration, dependency upgrades, CDI/JAX-RS integration, and improving test coverage and maintainability in mission-critical middleware. Colleagues know him as an engineering leader who can refactor complex systems without slowing delivery and who is "mysteriously dangerous" in JavaScript when the situation demands. He has a proven track record of enhancing storage and messaging components—adding remote Infinispan HotRod support and tightening webserver and broker internals—demonstrating both architectural judgment and hands-on coding.
15 years of coding experience
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cxf10
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javas10
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jax-rs10
cdi10
activemq10
jetty10
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dependency-injection9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cxf
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Apache CXF
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 36 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the Apache CXF project by implementing and refining CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) integration features. This included modifications to support JAX-RS resources and application path inheritance, as well as adding more comprehensive system tests to validate CDI functionality, specifically in the context of OpenWebBeans. Several commits focused on improving proxy handling and exception mapper integration, enhancing the overall stability and usability of the CDI-based components within CXF. Furthermore, the user addressed code cleanups to improve the clarity and efficiency of CXF's default application loading mechanism.
network-clientxmlapacheapache-cxfnetwork-server
ModeShape/modeshape
Oct 2010 - Dec 2010
ModeShape is a distributed, hierarchical, transactional, and consistent data store with support for queries, full-text search, events, versioning, references, and flexible and dynamic schemas. It is very fast, highly available, extremely scalable, and it is 100% open source and written in Java. Clients use the JSR-283 standard Java API for content repositories (aka, JCR) or ModeShape's REST API, and can query content through JDBC and SQL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:John's commits primarily involve upgrading dependencies and modifying code related to the Infinispan connector within the ModeShape project. They refactored and moved classes, updated configurations, and added support for remote Infinispan connections using HotRod. The contributions focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Infinispan connector, a key component for data storage and management. This work includes refactoring and introducing new features for integration with Infinispan, indicating a focus on improving data storage capabilities.
hierarchicaltext-searchjdbcrepositoriesconsistent
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