Richard Achmatowicz
Senior Software Engineer, Core Developer at Red Hat
Val-David, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolRichard Achmatowicz is a Senior Software Engineer and core developer with over a decade of experience building and maintaining distributed, high-availability middleware at Red Hat, focusing on the WildFly/EAP application server. He combines deep Java expertise with applied research in distributed systems, contributing to clustering, EJB subsystems, and improvements to widely used projects like WildFly and JGroups. Richard also runs a distributed testing lab for realistic, failure-prone scenarios and has a track record of stabilizing platform-specific test infrastructure and cache/configuration subsystems. With an MSc in Distributed Systems and a PhD in Computing Science, he blends formal validation ideas with practical engineering to improve reliability, performance and deployment of complex, transactional systems.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computing Science, PhD awarded., PhD, Computing Science, PhD awarded. at University of Newcastle upon TyneM.Sc., Distributed Systems, With distinction, M.Sc., Distributed Systems, With distinction at University of London
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Github Skills (14)
xml10
javas10
debug10
distributed-systems10
wildfly10
java10
test-automation10
testing10
infinispan9
text-parsing9
parsing9
windows9
rpc8
junit8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wildfly/wildfly
May 2015 - May 2015
WildFly Application Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 1 commit, 43 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Richard's contributions primarily involved refactoring and improving the parsing logic of the WildFly Application Server, moving parsing code to separate classes. They also made changes to improve cache configuration management within the CacheConfigurationService and separate the CacheContainer and Cache add commands. Their changes included updates to address issues that affected the performance and deployment.
javawildflydockerapplication-server
belaban/JGroups
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
The JGroups project
Role in this project:Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:24 commits, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the testing infrastructure within the JGroups project. Their contributions addressed platform-specific issues on Windows, specifically related to test output collection and the execution of Byteman tests. They also made changes to the RPC dispatcher and increased timeout settings, demonstrating knowledge of distributed system testing. Additionally, the user adjusted settings related to parallelism.
javajgroups
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