Kevin Minder
Software Architect at Oracle
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Minder is a seasoned Software Architect with 13+ years of experience leading architecture, engineering and delivery across startups and large multinationals, currently shaping platform strategy at Oracle from New Jersey. He specializes in high-performance distributed middleware, webservices interoperability and observability, pairing deep hands‑on Java backend work with team and product leadership. His career spans roles at Hortonworks, Magnet Systems and Hewlett-Packard, where he guided full life‑cycle development of distributed workflow and management platforms. An active contributor to Apache Knox, he has improved gateway logging, auditing and request handling to boost auditability in production gateways—an example of his focus on operational quality as well as design. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex integration and performance constraints into pragmatic, testable architectures.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The College of New Jersey
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Github Skills (10)
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java10
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big-data8
hbase6
spring-security6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/knox
Oct 2012 - Feb 2018
Mirror of Apache Knox
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:56 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Apache Knox project by implementing enhancements related to logging, auditing, and request handling within the gateway server. Their work involved modifying Java code in classes like `GatewayForwardingServlet` to log and audit invalid requests, as well as adding new methods in `GatewayResources`. They also made changes to test classes, such as `GatewayForwardingServletTest`, to accommodate new functionality. These changes focused on improving the observability and auditability of the Knox gateway.
javaapachebig-dataknox
apache/incubator-knox
Mar 2013 - Jan 2014
Mirror of Apache Knox (Incubating)
Contributions:46 commits in 10 months
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