Nizar BENALLA

Software Engineer II - Java Platform and Tooling - OpenJDK Reviewer @ Oracle

About

A curious and creative individual, I am passionate about exploring new technologies and building practical applications.

Country

City

Morocco

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Software Development, Regression Testing, Continuous Integration (CI), Distributed Systems, Compilers, Go (Programming Language), Gitlab, RESTful architecture, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Shell Scripting, Stack, Maven, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, Spring Framework, Linux, Machine Learning, Server Side

Experience

Software Engineer II - Java Platform and Tooling - OpenJDK Reviewer

Oracle

2025-10 - Present · 1 yr

Casablanca Metropolitan Area

Making native libraries and generative AI more accessible to Java developers.

Software Engineer I - OpenJDK Committer

Oracle

2024-7 - 2025-10 · 1 yr 4 mos

Casablanca Metropolitan Area

- I am a member of the Java Platform Group, where I contribute to key projects within the Java language such as the javadoc tool. - Leading ongoing improvements in jextract (Project Panama) and javadoc, with a focus on cross-platform stability and dependable API documentation used by millions of developers. - Designed and deployed a CI validation system that eliminated broken links, HTML, and man-page errors across the JDK API documentation, resulting in JDK 24 being the first release with zero broken pages. - Built tooling to identify and optimize slow-running CI tests, shortening feedback loops for OpenJDK contributors and boosting productivity across the project.

Research Assistant

Oracle

2024-1 - 2024-7 · 7 mos

Morocco

Built tooling to validate `@since` tags across Java source, preventing versioning errors during release cycles. Improved `javac` crash artifact handling and diagnostics, reducing CI noise and accelerating bug triage. You can find my contributions on https://github.com/openjdk/jdk under the username "nizarbenalla".

Reviewer

OpenJDK

2024-1 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

OpenJDK Reviewer, working on the JDK and Project Panama (FFM/jextract).

Software Engineer Intern

Corporate Software

2023-7 - 2023-8 · 2 mos

Casablanca Metropolitan Area

- Led the creation of a high-performance Linux system monitoring tool from the ground up.

Information Technology Intern

Trésorerie Générale du Royaume

2022-7 - 2022-7 · 1 mo

- Developed a Java desktop application to convert Microsoft Access databases to PostgreSQL. - Generated SQL scripts for database schema recreation and data population, and verified their accuracy throughout migration.