Rebecca Searls
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, JBoss division
Littleton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Searls is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience applying Java/J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate to complex, product-focused systems. She has a long track record at enterprise vendors—from Sun Microsystems to Red Hat—delivering middleware, web services, and migration tooling while representing vendors in standards bodies. At Red Hat she contributes to JBoss Web Services and Apache CXF and has made notable open-source fixes to major projects like RESTEasy and WildFly, improving core HTTP handling and webservices behavior. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic architecture, clear engineering requirements, and steady progress on ambitious, cross-team efforts. Based in Littleton, MA, she blends deep protocol-level know-how with a collaborative, transparency-driven approach to shipping robust server-side software.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science/Math Minor, B.A., Computer Science/Math Minor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
http10
rest-services10
java10
webservice10
javas10
restful10
wildfly10
rest-api10
microprofile9
bouncy-castle9
jax-rs9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
resteasy/resteasy
Aug 2016 - Nov 2022
An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 213 commits, 267 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca primarily focused on fixing bugs and making improvements to the Jakarta RESTful Web Services specification implementation. Their commits addressed issues within core modules such as resteasy-jaxrs, resteasy-atom, and resteasy-core, and also included improvements to the multipart provider. The contributions spanned various areas, including handling of HTTP requests, media type parsing, and correction of status codes, ultimately enhancing the stability and functionality of the RESTEasy framework. Furthermore, they made a change to the use of the deprecated PEMWriter with JcaPEMWriter.
restfulspecificationweb-servicesweb-services-restfuljakarta
wildfly/wildfly
Jun 2016 - Mar 2025
WildFly Application Server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 46 PRs, 107 comments in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca contributed to the WildFly application server, focusing on enhancing web service functionality. Their work involved adding specific attributes and methods related to endpoint configuration within the webservices subsystem. They also implemented a processor class for evaluating method parameters, including unit tests, and made code adjustments for improved debugging. Furthermore, they removed code configurations related to obsolete subsystems.
javawildflydockerapplication-server
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