Rolf Lear
Canada
Summary
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RockstarRolf Lear is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building and securing enterprise-grade systems, now leading his own company, SyllaSense, from Toronto. He has held senior technology and security roles at RBC and RBC Ventures and spent two decades at IBM as a lead software engineer, blending deep engineering chops with strategic security architecture. Rolf combines hands-on development experience with executive leadership, guiding cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, auditable solutions. He maintains an open-source footprint—keeping JDOM alive on GitHub—which underscores a commitment to community-driven tooling. His background reflects a pragmatic balance of product delivery, security stewardship, and company-building. Trained at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, he brings an international perspective to North American fintech and enterprise challenges.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (40)
java10
manipulation10
xml10
testing9
test-framework9
jdom9
browser9
bdd9
tdd9
nodejs9
mochajs8
test-runner8
javascript8
architecture7
hat7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hunterhacker/jdom
Aug 2011 - Jul 2021
Java manipulation of XML made easy
Contributions:1 release, 566 commits, 14 PRs in 10 years
manipulationxmljava
hunterhacker/jdom-site
Apr 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
jdom
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