Manuel Saldaña
Software Engineer at IBM
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolManuel Saldaña is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems and enterprise web applications, currently contributing at IBM from Raleigh, North Carolina. He brings solid Java and C# expertise honed through prior work at Medtronic on data-mining web services and ongoing backend development at IBM. As an open-source contributor to the well-known Open Liberty project, he has implemented HTTP/2 features—tuning connection settings, timeouts, concurrent streams and server push behavior—demonstrating deep protocol-level and server-runtime knowledge. Manuel combines production-focused engineering with a careful attention to performance and configurability, often separating remote and local endpoint behaviors for robustness. A Computer Engineering graduate from Universidad de Puerto Rico, he pairs strong systems fundamentals with practical experience in enterprise-grade middleware. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, maintainable solutions to complex backend and networking challenges.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Universidad de Puerto Rico
Github Skills (6)
appserver10
javas10
http10
application-server10
java10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Mar 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:273 reviews, 130 commits, 221 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Manuel's commits primarily focused on adding and configuring HTTP/2 features within the Open Liberty application server. They implemented configurable options for HTTP/2, separating connection settings for remote and local endpoints. The user also modified several files to include HTTP/2 settings such as idle timeouts, maximum concurrent streams, and frame sizes. Furthermore, the user added modifications to handle the server side of HTTP/2 connection settings and push promises.
application-serveropenliberty
mrsaldana/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Jun 2026
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:688 pushes, 171 branches in 8 years 10 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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