I'm currently a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, an individual contributor working across both. My focus has shifted from Quarkus toward standing up the Commonhaus Foundation: drafting policy, onboarding projects, finding sponsorships, and building the automation that runs the foundation's machinery. I've also been using AI tooling to help with maintenance and code review, like everyone else.

Web development has been more of a lifelong hobby than a day job. My full-time work has always been in Java app server or app runtime territory. Over the years I've built server-side apps in Perl (CGI and Fast-CGI), PHP, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, and more recently Quarkus with Qute for templating and Renarde for its Servlet-like MVC layer, both excellent. I still reach for JAX-RS/REST for anything API-shaped. I use TypeScript for static-site generation (this blog, the Commonhaus site) and a small flotilla of Obsidian plugins.

I am proficient with Object Oriented principles, design, and analysis. I was the development lead for the WebSphere Application Server Liberty runtime from its initial release through 8.5.5.6.

I've worked in both the Core and Enterprise Expert Groups for the OSGi standards body, and have experience with the OSGi core specification and several of the services defined in the compendium.