John Kellerman
Community Manager, Eclipse Cloud Development Tools & Open VSX at Eclipse Foundation
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolJohn Kellerman is a veteran software and community leader with over 35 years in engineering and 12 years in senior program roles, now serving as Community Manager for Eclipse Cloud Development Tools and Open VSX. His career spans deep product and developer-experience leadership at IBM—from hands-on engineering and product management on Eclipse and Jazz to directing Watson development and cloud developer programs. He combines technical credibility (MS in Computer Engineering, BS in Computer Science) with an MBA-backed business perspective, enabling him to align open-source ecosystems with corporate and developer needs. John has steered governance as an Eclipse Foundation board member and co-authored a canonical Java/Eclipse guide, reflecting both thought leadership and practical tooling experience. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he’s known for building bridges between vendors, open-source projects, and developer communities to drive adoption and interoperable tooling. A less obvious strength is his longevity across the full software lifecycle—from low-level engineering to ecosystem strategy—giving him rare institutional memory in the Eclipse and developer-tooling world.
12 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business, MBA, Business at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business SchoolMS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
Italian
Github Skills (54)
ide10
language-server-protocol10
vscode-extension10
marketplace10
vscode10
theia10
catch-all10
eclipse10
editor9
electron9
java9
typescript9
jumpstart9
desktop8
javascript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kineticsquid/Sudoku
Jul 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
kineticsquid/Automation
Jul 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 8 months
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