Preston Crary
Principal Software Engineer at Veeva Systems
Fullerton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Crary is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and optimizing Java web applications, currently leading platform work at Veeva Systems. He specializes in framework development, performance tuning, and complex data publishing systems, having led Liferay’s Publications team and authored a bespoke DSL that blends SQL and Java. Deep knowledge of OSGi/DS, Spring, Hibernate, Servlets and SQL underpins his work on caching, concurrency control, and normalization of large schemas to replace brittle XML/JSON columns. An ongoing contributor to the liferay-plugins ecosystem, he brings full-stack chops across portlets and plugin fixes that improve both UX and backend stability. A former U.S. Army chaplain’s assistant, he pairs technical rigor with disciplined leadership, strong expectation management, and a knack for pragmatic solutions under pressure.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.5 GPA, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.5 GPA at Azusa Pacific University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
liferay10
portal10
jspx10
portlet10
java10
jsp10
javascript7
sql5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-plugins
May 2013 - Jun 2016
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Preston primarily contributed to the Liferay plugins repository by addressing various issues and implementing improvements across different portlets. They fixed bugs related to language support in the mail portlet and enhanced user experience by avoiding unnecessary indexer calls for user names within the knowledge base portlet. Further contributions include updates to weather portlet, private messaging, and contacts portlet, along with fixing compilation errors and updating JSP usages. This indicates a strong proficiency in both front-end and back-end development within the Liferay ecosystem.
Preston-Crary/liferay-plugins
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 75 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 4 months
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