Steve Fontes
Software Architect at IBM
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Fontes is a seasoned software architect with over three decades of experience and nine years in his current role at IBM driving WebSphere Application Server, Liberty, and Open Liberty development. He led design for Intelligent Management features—dynamic routing and health management—and spearheaded MicroProfile OpenTracing integration, bridging enterprise middleware with cloud-native observability. His background spans hands-on coding, team leadership, training, and customer-facing consulting, giving him a rare combination of deep product design and practical operational expertise. With advanced degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science, he brings analytical rigor and systems thinking to distributed, high-availability platforms. Based in Cary, NC, he’s known for turning complex middleware requirements into robust, maintainable solutions and for translating backend internals into effective customer education.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMaster of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (16)
application-server10
server10
runtime-environment10
composable9
java9
opentracing8
microservices8
microprofile8
tracer6
evolution5
api4
theia4
specification4
zipkin3
distributed-tracing2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Steve-Fontes/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
Steve-Fontes/microprofile-opentracing
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 9 branches in 5 months
microprofileopentracing
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