Open Source Projects and Contributions

Most of the projects that I work on are Open Source projects. I’m really lucky to have a job that allows me to work within those communities as well. I’ve listed a handful of the projects I most actively work on below. In addition to those, I’ve also contributed to several other projects like JBoss Web, mod_cluster, Apache HTTP Server (aka apache or httpd), and OpenSSL.

I also consider myself a hobbyist web developer and have a few websites that I’ve created and/or maintain that you can find on the Websites page.

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language, and Java WebSocket specifications. I have been a committer on the project since 2016, and on the Project Management Committee since 2017. I am a member of the Tomcat Security team as well.

Lanuages: Java and C (tomcat-native and mod_jk components)

Embedded Tomcat Quickstarts

Use of Embedded Tomcat has grown quite in recent years, but our documentation doesn’t have a lot of examples of how to use it. I created this project as a place to store “quickstarts” for Embedded Tomcat for users to have a quick and easy to reference to see how to use it. In the project I included a vanilla tomcat implementation and a Spring Boot implementation of the examples.

Lanuages: Java

Vault Extension for Apache Tomcat

The tomcat-vault library is a PicketLink vault extension for Apache Tomcat. It allows you to place sensitive information, such as passwords, inside of a vault instead of the Tomcat configuration files. This is one of the components that is used by the product I maintain and so I was pretty active fixing things in this project.

Lanuages: Java

Fedora Package Maintainer

I’ve been a package maintainer for the tomcat package on Fedora since 2015, and a co-maintainer for the tomcat-native package since 2016. These packages are wrappers for the Apache Tomcat releases with a few additional things (like systemd service units) to make them accessible by system administrators through the operating system’s package manager.

Languages: RPM and bash