Ricky Frost

Professional Software Developer since 1983, currently specializing in the challenges in a highly utilized and performant cloud stack. Currently focused on dynamic realtime system tuning thru Kubernetes probes (ie health checks), observability through opentelemetry, opentracing, openmetrics, log aggregation and analysis. Including integrating monolith and micro-service solutions. Other specialties include: zero downtime upgrading and patching; realtime production application sandboxing and customization; modular component packaging and distribution to enable a productive and seamless experience at design and run time; IDE extensions; OSGi modularization; Portals; Servlets; Java Clients; Network Server operating systems; Service Oriented Architectures; software and infrastructure management systems; and Software Frameworks. In addition to Product R&D, my experience in Customer Service development, and consulting have taught me to only build systems that are truly easy to use, administer, and upgrade (lowest TCO). What I do may take more time up front, but in the end shows up in my customers bottom line in a fantastic way! It's the difference between building software assets vs liabilities. My only career goal is to serve my customers. Everything else falls into place... Experience: Helidon v2 and v3, Micro Profiles, Opentelemetry, Opentracing, Openmetrics, Logging frameworks (slf4j, logback etc), Java, JSE, JEE, JMX, JNDI, C++, C, Design Patterns, OO Methodologies, Portals, Portlets, WSRP, Web Services, SOAP, REST, Security, Performance. Containers: WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat. Tools: Maven, Ant, IntelliJ, Eclipse, JDeveloper, GIT, Linux, Shell script, Python, ClearCase, Together. Apache Projects: Pluto, WSRP4J, WSS4J, Axis, and various Commons.