Rebecca Whitworth
Manager at Red Hat
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Whitworth is a software engineering manager with 9 years’ experience leading teams to deliver scalable data and ORM solutions, currently directing the Hibernate engineering strategy at IBM. She bridges research and production, having moved geospatial social-media analysis from her PhD into practical systems and later applied XAI techniques like LIME and SHAP at Red Hat to increase model transparency. Rebecca led the launch of a Hibernate long-term support product for legacy enterprise versions and coordinates cross-product integrations across JBoss EAP, Quarkus, and Infinispan. Equally at home in cloud-native stacks and research pipelines, she has spoken at major conferences (Spark Summit, Strata) and produced open-source contributions that inform her pragmatic engineering choices. A committed STEM advocate, she co-leads IBM UK Women in Tech to open clearer career paths for underrepresented engineers. Colleagues describe her as a decisive roadmap-builder who removes blockers while keeping a researcher’s curiosity for novel data and explainability challenges.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computing Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computing Science at Newcastle University
English
Github Skills (35)
command-line-interface9
s2i9
continuous-integration8
openshift8
continuous-deployment8
continuous-testing7
devops7
kubernetes7
spark7
continuous-delivery7
paas6
go6
docker6
python6
minecraft6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rebeccaSimmonds19/transaction_limit
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 17 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 months
rebeccaSimmonds19/winemap
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:98 commits, 21 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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