Reza Rahman
Project Lead, Jakarta Agentic Artificial Intelligence at Payara
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReza Rahman is a veteran technologist and project lead with over 15 years of enterprise Java and Jakarta EE leadership, currently spearheading the Jakarta Agentic AI specification at Payara. He has driven Java strategy and productization at Microsoft, Oracle, and major consultancies, helping enterprises like eBay, Comcast, and CapitalOne modernize with Java, Spring, and cloud-native runtimes. Author of EJB 3 in Action and a long-time conference speaker and Jakarta EE influencer, Reza blends deep protocol- and platform-level expertise with hands-on implementation experience (including implementing the EJB container for Resin). He has a rare combination of standards-level involvement—membership on Java EE, EJB, and JMS expert groups and Jakarta governance—and practical delivery, having led migrations, architecture teams, and commercialization efforts. Known for evangelism and community building, he helped create Cargo Tracker, led Java tracks at major conferences, and cofounded the Jakarta EE Ambassadors. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he frequently bridges vendor collaboration and customer modernization, and is now applying that pattern to make AI agents first-class citizens on Jakarta EE runtimes.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science/Economics (Mathematics Minor), Bachelors Computer Science/Economics (Mathematics Minor) at Gettysburg College
English
Github Skills (141)
glassfish10
grafana-loki10
jaxb10
javax10
edifact10
dependency-injection10
javaee10
java10
notice10
buffer10
injection10
ansible-collections10
reference-implementation10
jsinterop10
reward10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
javaee/jaxb-codemodel
Dec 2010 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
javaee/glassfish-docs
Jan 2013 - Jun 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
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