Alessio Soldano
Software Development Manager at IBM
Gallarate, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessio Soldano is a software development manager and open-source engineer with 18 years in backend Java and web services, currently leading distributed teams and recently joining IBM after a long tenure at Red Hat. He is the technical lead of the Jakarta RESTEasy project and a long-standing Apache CXF committer and PMC member, contributing deep fixes and features around XML processing, OAuth2, HTTP transport and JAX-WS integrations. Alessio combines people leadership with hands-on bug fixes and refactors in flagship projects like WildFly and Apache CXF, evidence of both strategic stewardship and day-to-day technical ownership. Based in Gallarate, Italy, he brings a rare blend of polished academic credentials (Politecnico di Milano, 100/100 cum laude) and extensive experience shipping resilient server-side frameworks. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic API design, cross-timezone collaboration, and quietly driving stability in widely used open-source middleware.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Université de Technologie de Troyes100/100 cum laude, 100/100 cum laude at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian
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Github Skills (18)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
http10
cxf10
jax-ws10
webservice10
java10
javas10
xml-parsing10
jax-rs10
xml10
rest-api10
soap9
javaee9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wildfly/wildfly
Oct 2012 - Dec 2022
WildFly Application Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 43 reviews, 11 commits in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alessio's contributions focused on modifying the web services server-integration module. The commits added a new module, fixed parsing issues, improved web service deployment detection, and moved existing modules to a new location. Furthermore, the user made several improvements and additions related to JAXWS deployments and the handling of HTTP requests and endpoints.
application-serverwildfly
resteasy/resteasy
Apr 2016 - Oct 2021
An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 1244 commits, 1900 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alessio primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing features related to XML processing and server-side components within the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification implementation. Their contributions include addressing issues where tests failed due to language settings, fixing a bug in OAuth 2.0 authentication, and enhancing the URI building functionality. They also made several refactoring and documentation improvements.
restrestfulwebservice
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