| William "Billy" Newport | |
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| Born | 1968 Wexford, Ireland |
| Residence | Rochester, MN |
| Citizenship | Irish |
| Nationality | Ireland |
| Fields | Software Engineer |
| Institutions | IBM |
| Alma mater | Waterford Institute of Technology |
| Known for | IBM WebSphere |
William "Billy" Newport (born 1968) is an Irish software engineer. Newport held the title of IBM Distinguished Engineer. He was one of the main engineers of IBM WebSphere Software. Newport lead the design of the IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale product as well as various aspects of the WebSphere Application Server product. Newport currently has filed for over 52 US patents.
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Newport starting programming at the age of 11 and worked at Emerald Software writing video games for 8 bit and 16 bit home computers. He obtained a Degree in Industrial Computing with First Class Honors in 1989 from Waterford Institute of Technology in Waterford, Ireland. He graduated on his 21st birthday.
Newport has spoken at many IBM events and third party events. He spoke at the SpringOne conference in Florida in 2008,[1] at QCon San Francisco 2009,[2] JAOO 2009,[3] and StrangeLoop 2010.[4]
Life is too short to do something mediocre. Do it well or not at all.
Newport can be found home with his wife and 2 children. Newport enjoys running and racing Porsche race cars in his spare time.