Jimmy Bogard
President at Lucky Penny Software
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJimmy Bogard is a software architect and founder with two decades of experience building mission-critical distributed systems, currently president of Lucky Penny Software and Jimmy Bogard Consulting in Austin. He specializes in domain-driven design, messaging, microservices and pragmatic migration of monoliths to distributed architectures. A prolific open-source maintainer, he created or shaped influential .NET projects such as MediatR, StructureMap and Respawn and now produces commercial editions of AutoMapper and MediatR. Microsoft ASP.NET MVP (2009–2020) and NServiceBus Champ (2012–2020), he combines rigorous TDD and practical engineering to simplify complex integration and testing problems. His GitHub moniker "The Barley Architect" hints at a thoughtful, unpretentious approach to tooling and architecture.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Computer Engineering, BSEE Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (47)
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razor-pages10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jbogard/Respawn
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
Intelligent database cleaner for integration tests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 releases, 16 reviews, 126 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily focused on improving database support for the Respawn library. They added support for SQL Server, Postgres, and MySQL databases. The user implemented the necessary database adapter classes to handle different database-specific commands, queries, and connection requirements for intelligent database cleaning during integration tests. This work involved significant changes to the database interaction layer, as well as the addition of testing infrastructure.
testingdatabaseintegration-testsdatabase-cleanerintelligent
jbogard/ContosoUniversity
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Contoso University sample re-done the way I would build it
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 3 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy's initial commit involved setting up the foundation with migrations, suggesting backend development. Subsequent commits indicate a focus on structuring the project using feature folders, including changes in the project file and adding Razor view engine for feature-based views. Further contributions involve updating packages, configuring dependency injection, and converting actions to use view models, suggesting work across the stack.
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