Jakub Podlesak is a seasoned software developer with 20 years of experience building backend and web technologies, currently contributing at Pure Storage from Prague. His career spans major engineering roles at Broadcom, Cisco, Oracle Labs, Oracle and Sun, where he worked on web standards, JavaScript for Graal/Truffle, and cognitive intelligence projects. He has a deep Java and middleware pedigree, evidenced by long-term contributions to the Jersey JAX-RS ecosystem including Jackson JSON integration and test migrations for the reference implementation. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends legacy-system expertise with modern platform work, often focusing on interoperability and robust testing. A CET master in computer science, he brings institutional knowledge from the early Java EE era through contemporary cloud and storage stacks. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who surfaces subtle compatibility fixes that prevent production headaches downstream.
20 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Czech Technical University in Prague
This is no longer the active Jersey repository. Please see the README.md
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:368 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jakub contributed to the Jersey project by improving the Jackson JSON example documentation, updating the JSON configuration to prioritize Jackson annotation introspector over JAXB, and adding new test cases for the project. The user also migrated sub-resource locator tests from Jersey-1 and added code for header values for some test cases. Moreover, the user helped with adding the source to the JAX-RS RI.
Legacy JAX-RS (JSR-311) spec. development. Please use the link below for the latest project details
Contributions:21 commits in 1 year 5 months
jax-rs
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