Andrew McCright

Andy is a Senior Software Engineer and Web Services Architect at IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. He is a contributor to several open source software projects such as Apache CXF, RESTEasy, Jakarta REST, Open Liberty and was a co-founder of the MicroProfile Rest Client and GraphQL projects. He has been coding in Java for over 20 years, building projects such as WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, WebSphere Liberty, and Open Liberty. His blog posts can be found at openliberty.io, dev.to, DZone and his own site at andymc12.net. He is the co-author of the upcoming book, Practical Cloud Native Development with MicroProfile, and he has spoken at developer conferences around the globe. He is married with three children and enjoys playing bass guitar and eating pizza.