Jose Hilario is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native and backend systems, currently contributing to Quarkus and middleware at Red Hat. He balances pragmatic design principles (KISS, TDD, Agile) with long-term maintainability, and is fluent across Java, .NET, cloud platforms and container ecosystems like OpenShift, Docker and Rancher. An active open-source contributor, he has improved model/schema generation in the Kubernetes Java client and hardened build and runtime behavior in Kogito and Quarkus projects. His background spans hands-on automation, QA and technical leadership, plus technical writing for Baeldung, demonstrating an ability to both implement and explain complex systems. Based in Catalonia, he brings a research-informed engineering perspective from studies in Málaga and Luxembourg and a knack for turning integration and testing pain points into robust, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Técnico, Sistemas Informática, Ingeniero Técnico, Sistemas Informática at Universidad de Málaga
Master of Computer Sciences, Computer Science, Master of Computer Sciences, Computer Science at Université de Luxembourg
Contributions:584 reviews, 264 commits, 370 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the Quarkus framework, contributing to both backend and infrastructure aspects. The user's work involved bug fixes, addressing typos in documentation, and extending functionality related to REST client features and the integration of external components. They also contributed to improving OpenShift deployments and testing processes.
Kogito examples - Kogito is a cloud-native business automation technology for building cloud-ready business applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:18 reviews, 21 commits, 27 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily worked on enhancing and maintaining example applications within the Kogito project. Their contributions involved disabling failing tests related to persistence, indicating a focus on stability and bug fixing. They also implemented new tests for Spring Boot applications, ensuring service discovery functionality and cloud event integration. Additionally, the user reviewed and fixed examples that utilize the persistence profile, demonstrating a focus on overall code quality and functionality across different configurations.
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