Scott Stark
Software Engineer at IBM
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Stark is a seasoned software engineer and open-source veteran with 21 years of experience, now at IBM after a long tenure leading architecture and engineering at Red Hat. A JBoss co-founder and longtime contributor to flagship projects like WildFly and Thorntail, he brings deep backend expertise in networking, transaction management, microservices, and JWT security. He combines executive leadership (VP/Director-level roles) with hands-on development, having implemented low-level features such as bind-address support, XML config parsing, and security annotation handling. Based in Houston, Scott pairs a rare technical pedigree—grounded in a PhD in Chemical Engineering—with pragmatic systems design that scales across enterprise and cloud-native environments. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky integration and security edge cases that often sit between architecture and implementation.
21 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Chemical Engineering at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Chemical Engineering at University of Delaware
Github Skills (19)
jakartaee10
transaction10
application-server10
appserver10
web-token10
microservices-application10
java10
security10
javas10
transactionscope10
wildfly10
xml-parsing10
jsonwebtoken10
jwt10
microservices10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
thorntail/thorntail
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
Source code for the Thorntail project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the backend of the Thorntail project, with a focus on the microservices architecture. Their work included modifying the `HttpSecurityPreparer` class, implementing features related to MicroProfile JWT authentication, and addressing security constraints. Key contributions involved enhancing the handling of security annotations, implementing the PermitAll semantics, and ensuring the correct processing of JWT token validation.
javathorntailmavenmicroservices
wildfly/wildfly
Apr 2022 - Nov 2023
WildFly Application Server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the WildFly application server's backend, focusing on networking and transaction management. They implemented features related to interface criteria and bind address support. The user's work also included updating XML parsing for configuration and the addition of features for process ID configuration and enabling/disabling TSM status.
javawildflydockerapplication-server
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