Aaron Walker
Technology Director at base2Services
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAaron Walker is a Technology Director with over 20 years in IT and 15 years of hands-on experience, leading cloud transformation and DevOps adoption at scale. Based in Berlin, he has overseen 300+ cloud migrations and helped position base2Services as a leading AWS partner, earning one of the first AWS Partner "Cloud Warrior" recognitions. Deeply technical and open-source minded, he contributes to projects such as Cucumber-JVM and the Jenkins GitHub plugin, focusing on CDI integration, testability and CI/CD hooks. A pragmatic advocate for DevOps-as-a-Service, he blends process, tooling and knowledge-sharing—regularly speaking at AWS Summit, JavaOne and other major conferences. Trained in robotics and electronics, he brings systems-level thinking to cloud architecture and automation, often surfacing subtle integration fixes that improve reliability in complex pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
Associate Diploma, Electronics Engineering, Associate Diploma, Electronics Engineering at Canberra Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering & Bachelor Applied Science, Robotics Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering & Bachelor Applied Science, Robotics Engineering & Computer Science at Swinburne University of Technology
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Github Skills (17)
github10
webhooks10
testing10
cucumber-jvm10
java10
javas10
junit10
jenkins-plugin10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
cdi10
weld10
dependency-injection10
apidoc9
build-automation9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/github-plugin
Mar 2012 - Nov 2012
Jenkins GitHub plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aaron focused on enhancing the functionality of the Jenkins GitHub plugin. They refactored the plugin to support triggering builds from different sources and updated the plugin to use the new Jenkins GitHub service hook. Their contributions involved modifying core classes related to GitHub triggers and webhooks. They also added and removed hooks, and updated the plugin to improve the performance.
jenkinsjenkins-plugingitflowjenkins-api-plugingithub-jenkins
jbehave/jbehave-core
Feb 2011 - Mar 2011
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the integration of CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) support within the JBehave framework. This involved modifying core configuration and annotation processing to enable the use of CDI for step implementations. They also worked on the example applications to incorporate the Weld dependency injection framework. The user's commits show an emphasis on testing and ensuring proper integration with the Weld container, indicating a strong understanding of dependency injection principles and build automation.
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