Scott Kurz
Watsonx Code Assistant For Enterprise Java Applications - Eclipse Development Team Lead
City of Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
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Top SchoolScott Kurz is a seasoned enterprise Java technologist with 13+ years at IBM, currently leading the watsonx Code Assistant integration for Eclipse and steering the Open Liberty/Eclipse developer experience. He combines deep product and architecture experience—spanning WebSphere, Jakarta EE/MicroProfile, Java Batch (JSR 352) and z/OS integrations—with hands-on engineering of Maven/Gradle tooling and IDE integrations for Eclipse, VS Code and IntelliJ. Scott has led cross-site teams to deliver high‑reliability batch and runtime features, including a reference implementation and TCK for Java batch, and has a track record of troubleshooting mission‑critical customer systems. An active open‑source contributor to Open Liberty, he improves batch state management and tracing while hardening concurrency with DB locking—skills that surface in both product and community code. Based in Poughkeepsie, NY, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a pragmatic focus on developer productivity and cloud-native workflows like Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift.
13 years of coding experience
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at SUNY New Paltz
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
batch-processing10
java10
jakartaee9
database-management9
debug8
debugging8
jaxb6
maven6
websphere6
cdi6
openliberty6
websphere-liberty6
jsr6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 85 commits, 66 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions primarily involve modifying the `BatchStatusValidator.java` file to restrict instance state transitions to JMS_CONSUMED, indicating a focus on batch processing state management. The user also added tracing capabilities within the batch processing components by adding miscellaneous traces. Furthermore, the user performed code cleanup by removing unused interface methods and enhancing the robustness of the system by using database locking to guard instance state transitions.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
OpenLiberty/devfile-stack-starters
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Starters for the java-openliberty application-stack.
Contributions:10 reviews, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 3 months
javaapplication-stackopenlibertystarters
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