Basil Crow
Summary
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RockstarBasil Crow is a seasoned software engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of hands-on experience maintaining and modernizing large-scale Jenkins ecosystem projects. At CloudBees and previously Delphix, he has focused on backend, DevOps, and automation work—refactoring plugins, removing deprecated dependencies like Guava, and improving test reliability and CI pipelines. His open-source contributions touch many core Jenkins repositories (job-dsl, git-plugin, workflow-cps, remoting, kubernetes-plugin), showing deep familiarity with plugin architecture, build tooling, and compatibility upgrades. Basil combines pragmatic code hygiene—SpotBugs, migration to Java NIO, dependency upgrades—with operational fixes for container and CI environments, reflecting a systems-generalist mindset. Unusually for someone focused on backend systems, he also drives test automation and stability improvements across projects, helping keep complex integrations shippable. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Brown University.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (66)
dependency-management10
github10
testing10
plugin-development10
http10
bash10
sc10
security10
javas10
automation10
junit10
subversion10
build-automation10
jenkins-plugin10
refactoring10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/jenkins
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Jenkins automation server
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2557 reviews, 575 commits, 2718 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Basil's contributions focus on improving the test coverage for the Jenkins project, specifically related to the RSS feed feature and parameter handling. They implemented test cases and made code modifications to improve the overall quality. Further improvements were done by switching to SpotBugs, which required code changes to accommodate.
automationjenkinscontinuous-integrationcontinuous-deliverycontinuous-deployment
jenkinsci/docker
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Docker official jenkins repo
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 39 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Basil contributed to the Docker-based Jenkins repository by updating dependencies, modifying shell scripts, and adapting to changes in upstream Jenkins projects. Their work includes upgrading `shellcheck`, integrating `tini` from the Debian package manager, and removing Java 8. They also focused on adapting the project to use the `ExitLifecycle` for running within containers.
dockerjenkins
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