Neil Griffin
Principal Sales Engineer at Java Champions
Greater Orlando United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Griffin is a Principal Sales Engineer with 19 years of experience marrying deep Java/JSF expertise and consultative sales to help organizations adopt Liferay Experience Cloud. At Liferay he builds tailored demos, mentors peers, and has a track record of consistently exceeding sales targets while shaping best practices and demo collateral. A longtime open-source contributor and spec lead for JSR 378, he has driven the Liferay Faces and Portlet bridge efforts and contributed UI and back-end components to widely used Liferay projects. He also chairs the Apache Portals PMC and is a Java Champions member, blending standards leadership with hands-on full-stack development. Based in Greater Orlando, he pairs technical authorship and training experience with commercial impact—often turning complex standards work into customer-facing solutions.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Math, BS Computer Science Math at Virginia Tech
English
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Github Skills (15)
component-development10
alloy10
javas10
liferay10
portal10
jspx10
portlet10
jsf10
jsfl10
java10
jsp10
eclipse6
primefaces6
validation6
xhtml6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-faces
Apr 2012 - Nov 2019
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9072 commits, 550 PRs, 3170 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Neil was involved in developing and modifying Liferay Faces Alloy Components. They implemented new features, such as developing alloy:row and alloy:column components, alloy:button, alloy:commandButton, alloy:icon components, and alloy:field components. They also added features to existing components like alloy:inputDate, making them more consistent and functional. The user also refactored several components.
liferay/liferay-plugins
Jun 2007 - May 2018
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:97 commits in 11 years
Contributions summary:Neil's commits primarily involve modifications to JSP and Facelets files, indicating work on the presentation layer of the Liferay plugins. The commits show changes to the UI components using ICEfaces. The commits also include upgrading dependencies and addressing compilation failures due to refactoring. Some commits include the upgrading of sample JSF portlets.
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