Yeray Santana
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Greater Las Palmas Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolYeray Santana is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience specializing in Java back-end systems and cloud-native deployments, currently working on WildFly at IBM after a long tenure at Red Hat. He is a core WildFly contributor and leads the WildFly Core component while co-leading the WildFly Operator, bringing deep expertise in Elytron security, EJB subsystems, and Kubernetes/OpenShift tooling. Yeray blends hands-on systems work—implementing credential-store OTP support, custom cipher validators, and audit log enhancements—with pragmatic operator and containerization practices in Go and Helm. Based in Gran Canaria, he pairs enterprise-grade server engineering with a history in aerospace and telecom projects, and his contributions help harden one of the Java ecosystem’s most widely used application servers.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Técnico de Telecomunicación rama Telemática Ingeniería Ingeniería de telecomunicaciones, Ingeniero Técnico de Telecomunicación rama Telemática Ingeniería Ingeniería de telecomunicaciones at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
English
Github Skills (12)
testing10
security10
javas10
user-authentication10
authentication10
jboss10
wildfly10
java10
ejb10
elytron10
jakartaee8
xml5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
wildfly/wildfly-core
May 2017 - Jan 2023
The core runtime that is used by the WildFly application server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 releases, 1488 reviews, 469 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yeray primarily worked on back-end features within the WildFly core runtime, focusing on the Elytron security subsystem. Their contributions involved changes to the audit logging event format, enhancements to credential store and file system realm functionalities, including implementing support for one-time passwords. Furthermore, the user implemented a custom validator for cipher suite filters, and addressed issues related to the host controller's model and operation handling.
application-serverwildfly
wildfly/wildfly
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
WildFly Application Server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:432 reviews, 7 commits, 378 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yeray primarily focused on modifying the WildFly Application Server, particularly within the context of the Elytron security framework and, to a lesser extent, the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components. Their contributions included addressing security manager-related issues, refining test cases, and adding specific permissions. These adjustments appear aimed at improving testing compatibility and addressing various functional problems within the server's security and EJB subsystems.
application-serverwildfly
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