Kristi Peterson
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer I at Inductive Automation
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKristi Peterson is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer and seasoned Java developer with eight years of focused experience in enterprise application services and a long IBM pedigree building and securing WebSphere and Liberty runtimes. She blends hands-on feature design and runtime implementation with customer-like QA, automated test development, and clear documentation—often owning delivery from design through Level 3 support. Recent cybersecurity upskilling (University of Minnesota boot camp, Certified Ethical Hacker certificate, and Security+ in 2025) complements her work adding IAM, LDAP/Kerberos, ACME, and account-lockout features to both commercial and open-source Liberty code. An active contributor to the notable Open Liberty project, she has landed backend security fixes and test-support changes that improved LDAP failover resilience. Known for pragmatic debugging and improving observability, she frequently turns thorny production issues into repeatable tests and reliable patches. Based in Rochester, MN, she pairs deep systems knowledge with customer-facing empathy and a knack for clear release notes and documentation.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and English at Luther CollegeCertificate Cybersecurity, Certificate Cybersecurity at University of Minnesota Boot CampsCertificate Certified Ethical Hacker, Certificate Certified Ethical Hacker at EC-Council University
Github Skills (8)
javas10
java10
testing9
kerberos9
ldap8
openid-connect7
jakartaee7
jpa7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:137 reviews, 545 commits, 582 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kristi primarily contributed to the Open Liberty project by merging branches and incorporating new code changes. These changes involved modifications to Java files, specifically related to the `com.ibm.ws.microprofile.metrics.monitor_fat` package and `com.ibm.ws.security.social` and `com.ibm.ws.security.wim.core` modules. Furthermore, the user updated files related to security features within the framework by adjusting the attribute cache timeout and adding debug statements to support the LDAP failover tests.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
kristip17/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Mar 2023
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:728 pushes, 298 branches in 5 years 6 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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