Will Dazey
Software Developer at IBM Software Group
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolWill Dazey is a pragmatic software developer with 11 years of experience specializing in Java persistence and application server integration, currently supporting JPA containers and persistence providers for IBM WebSphere (traditional and Liberty). He contributes to and fixes core issues in prominent open-source projects like EclipseLink—addressing database interaction bugs, adding JPA31 features, and improving parameter binding and performance—and has helped upgrade EclipseLink dependencies within the Open Liberty runtime. Based in Rochester, MN, Will combines deep backend expertise with a history of mentoring and teaching from his university days, including building a Java tool that generated Simulink stateflows from technical user input. His work shows a focus on reliable database behavior and interoperability in enterprise Java environments, with a knack for diagnosing subtle persistence-layer problems that affect production systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (21)
databases10
java10
javas10
sql10
jpa10
database10
derby9
jdbc9
db29
sql-database9
relational-databases9
oracle8
dependency-management8
oracles8
spring-data-jpa6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 264 commits, 218 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to updating and upgrading the EclipseLink dependency within the Open Liberty application server project. Their work involved updating third-party libraries, specifically updating to various versions of EclipseLink. These changes were related to database interaction, as well as updating Java versions. They also contributed merging branches.
application-serveropenliberty
eclipse-ee4j/eclipselink
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
Eclipselink project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 296 commits, 545 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily worked on the Eclipselink project, contributing to core back-end features. Their work involved fixing bugs related to database interactions, such as issues with TRIM functions, parameter binding within the Criteria API, and handling of parameters in the HAVING clause. The user also added support for new functionalities like support for JPA31 ROUND, parameter binding for java.time types, and improved performance with features such as Statement.getGeneratedKeys.
eclipselink
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