Ranabir Chakraborty is a Senior Software Engineer with six years’ experience building and automating enterprise Java middleware, currently contributing to IBM after a multi-year tenure at Red Hat. He has deep hands-on experience with WildFly, JBoss EAP and related Jakarta EE subsystems, and has fixed critical runtime and CLI issues in high-profile open-source repos such as wildfly-core and wildfly. Ranabir pairs backend engineering with DevOps automation—authoring Ansible playbooks, Molecule tests, and Jenkins pipelines for Red Hat Runtimes—and holds RHCSA and SAFe 4.6 certifications. He founded local communities like WildFly India and Ansible Kolkata meetup, regularly gives tech talks and writes technical blogs, signaling a strong penchant for developer advocacy. Notably, his contributions include migrating Java EE to Jakarta EE components and improving embedded server error handling—practical fixes that reduce operational friction for enterprise deployments.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
Contributions:55 reviews, 1 commit, 60 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ranabir contributed to the WildFly application server by modifying and adding code to the Java EE-related modules. They addressed bugs, refactored and replaced legacy code, and added new features related to JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Jakarta Enterprise Beans (EJB). The contributions involved updating Java documentation to reflect the transition from Java EE to Jakarta EE standards, including changes in various subsystems like JAX-RS, JAXB, and JCA.
The core runtime that is used by the WildFly application server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 reviews, 12 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ranabir contributed to the core runtime of the WildFly application server by addressing bugs and making enhancements. They focused on fixing deprecated constructors, correcting incorrect `JAVA_OPTS` settings in standalone.bat, and refining the JBoss-CLI. The user also resolved issues related to whitespace handling in the CLI and improved error messages for embedded server configuration. Additionally, they removed deprecated phase constants and made improvements to stack size handling.
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Ranabir Chakraborty - Senior Software Engineer at IBM