Tatu Saloranta
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTatu Saloranta is a senior software engineer and implementation technology specialist with three decades of experience building reliable, production-grade systems and open source libraries. He’s the author and maintainer of widely used JVM components such as Jackson, Woodstox and Aalto, meaning many Java/Android users indirectly depend on his work. Tatu favors simplicity as a design principle—striving for solutions that are boring because they “just work”—and applies that rigor across cloud-native, distributed API and data-platform projects. His recent roles include leading Stargate/Data API development at DataStax (now at IBM via acquisition) and improving dependency and CI/CD tooling at Indeed. Equally comfortable in deep internals and cloud deployments, he blends hands-on engineering with long-term stewardship of critical OSS infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he is also a recognized Java Champion and a persistent advocate for interoperable data formats.
9 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc CS, M.Sc CS at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
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Github Skills (11)
automaton7
regular-expression7
javax6
xml4
jax-rs4
java3
jackson3
yaml2
cbor2
json2
jax1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
salesforce/gorp
Jul 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 8 months
resextractorsregular-expressionregularautomaton
FasterXML/jackson-jaxrs-providers
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Multi-module project that contains Jackson-based "old" JAX-RS (ones under `javax.ws.rs`) providers for JSON, XML, YAML, Smile, CBOR formats
Contributions:3 comments in 1 day
xml-jsonxmlmulti-modulemulti-module-projectcbor
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