Jonathan Anstey is a seasoned engineering leader with over 17 years of hands-on and management experience, currently directing the globally distributed Red Hat Build of Apache Camel team. Deeply embedded in the Apache Camel ecosystem since 2008, he is a long-time ASF committer, a Camel PMC member, and co-author of the second edition of Camel in Action, contributing both production examples and tooling improvements. His background spans full-stack contributions—from Java back-end work in Karaf, Fabric8 and Hadoop integrations to front-end enhancements in Hawtio—reflecting a rare blend of product-facing customer engagement and low-level systems problem solving. Jonathan has steadily progressed through technical and leadership roles at FuseSource, Red Hat and beyond, pairing an M.Eng. in Computer Engineering with practical open-source stewardship. Colocated in Paradise, Newfoundland, he brings a collaborative, research-informed approach to building resilient integration platforms at scale.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M. Eng. Computer Engineering, M. Eng. Computer Engineering at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
:camel: This project hosts the source code for the examples of the Camel in Action 2nd ed book :closed_book: written by Claus Ibsen and Jonathan Anstey.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:328 commits, 5 PRs, 103 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the development of examples for the "Camel in Action 2nd ed" book, as indicated by the repository description. The commits showcase the integration of various Apache Camel components, including quartz2, mail, netty, and scheduler. The user also updated the project to utilize leveldb instead of hawtdb for aggregation repository and implemented tests related to thread pools and circuit breaker features.
fabric8 is an open source microservices platform based on Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:535 commits, 9 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the Apache Hadoop and Apache Fuse ESB projects. Their commits involved merging branches, fixing build errors, and resolving compilation issues. The user’s work includes changes to core functionalities like the HttpServer in Hadoop, and various example applications in the Fuse ESB project, and also focused on updating documentation and addressing code inconsistencies.
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Jonathan Anstey - Director Of Engineering (Red Hat) - Camel Team