Wayne Bowers
Software Engineer at IBM
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWayne Bowers is a seasoned software engineer with four years of formal experience and a long-standing technical career at IBM as an Advisory Software Engineer Team Lead supporting IBM i OS, Access clients, and 5250 Telnet services. He blends deep systems-level knowledge with practical client-facing support, driving reliability for Windows-integrated server hosting in enterprise environments. An attentive backend contributor to open-source projects like Kogito runtimes, he focuses on code quality and maintainability—refactoring generics, cleaning up code smells, and improving annotations in business automation components such as jBPM and Drools. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, Wayne pairs a Computer Science and Engineering Physics background with hands-on operational experience dating back to early ISP and retail PC roles, giving him a pragmatic perspective on both infrastructure and developer ergonomics.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Physics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Physics, Computer Science at Bemidji State University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
drools10
workflow-engine10
refactoring10
software-quality10
java10
jbpm10
rule-engine9
quarkus7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-kie-kogito-runtimes
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Kogito Runtimes has moved to https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-drools. This repository is archived. Kogito Runtimes is a cloud-native business automation technology for building cloud-ready business applications
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 21 commits, 21 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Wayne primarily addressed code smells and improved code quality within the Kogito Runtimes repository. Their contributions involved adding the `@Override` annotation to overridden methods, refactoring code to use the `<>` operator for generics, and removing unused assignments and modifiers. These changes were focused on improving code readability and maintainability. They made changes to files related to business automation technologies like jBPM and Drools.
automationcloud-nativedroolskogitoruntimes
kbowers-ibm/kogito-runtimes
Sep 2022 - Aug 2024
Kogito Runtimes - Kogito is a cloud-native business automation technology for building cloud-ready business applications.
Contributions:2 PRs, 61 pushes, 40 branches in 1 year 11 months
runtimeskogitobusiness-automationdmnkubernetes
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