Neil Young
Java Software Developer - Microservices, Fault Tolerance And Open Source Projects at IBM
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeil Young is a seasoned Java software developer with over nine years focused on microservices, fault tolerance and open source server runtimes at IBM, and a deep history working on WebSphere Application Server and Liberty. He combines low-level concurrency and transactional expertise with practical cloud deployment experience, having contributed fixes and configuration enhancements to the widely used Open Liberty project. Comfortable in C, C++ and Java, he has designed and maintained complex multi-threaded middleware for messaging, JTA and web services across enterprise deployments. Neil has led small, fast-moving teams and regularly engages with customers, translating operational needs into robust code and configuration improvements. His academic background in mathematics and a PhD in physics underpin a rigorous, analytical approach to debugging and system design. Colleagues rely on him for stabilizing critical runtime behavior and delivering pragmatic open source contributions that improve production resilience.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of SouthamptonMaster of Arts (MA), Maths, Master of Arts (MA), Maths at Cambridge University
Github Skills (11)
javas10
configuration-management10
transactionscope10
transaction10
transaction-manager10
back-end-development10
java10
testing9
osgi9
derby6
database-administration5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Sep 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:207 reviews, 278 commits, 287 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Neil made several commits focused on enhancing and stabilizing the Open Liberty application server. Their work involved addressing configuration issues, resolving component conflicts, and modifying transactional behavior within the runtime environment. They also contributed to the support for server XML variable and app property configuration. These changes suggest a focus on back-end development and improving core functionalities of the Open Liberty server.
application-serveropenliberty
neilgsyoung/microprofile-fault-tolerance
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 64 pushes, 23 branches in 8 months
tolerancefaultfault-tolerancemicroprofile
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