Zach Hein
Software Engineer at IBM
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Hein is a software engineer with eight years of experience at IBM, where he progressed from a WebSphere build and automation intern to a full-time engineer contributing to enterprise-grade middleware. He focuses on back-end development and security-sensitive code changes, including LDAP identity store adjustments and EJB security configuration work within the well-known Open Liberty project. Comfortable in large, composable server runtimes, he blends practical refactoring and dependency management with attention to deprecations and security hardening. Zach’s background in continuous testing and automation informs a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable builds and maintaining long-lived platform code. A UT Arlington computer science graduate, he brings a steady track record of improving security posture and maintainability in complex Java server ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science(BSCS), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science(BSCS), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (6)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
ejb10
security10
ldap9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:174 reviews, 105 commits, 166 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Zach's contributions primarily involved removing or adjusting security-related properties and code. These changes focused on adjusting LDAP identity store definitions and modifying EJB security configurations by moving or removing code. They also performed refactoring, like reverting and re-applying code changes. The contributions seem to be related to security enhancements, possibly removing unused or deprecated security components and adjusting dependencies.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
Zech-Hein/open-liberty
Oct 2017 - Apr 2025
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:6 PRs, 270 pushes, 174 branches in 7 years 6 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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