Bill Dennis
Reserve Volunteer at RSPB
Wrestlingworth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Dennis is a seasoned software developer with over 30 years of experience across OO languages including Java, Groovy and C++, having held senior engineering roles at McAfee and Novell and earlier design work at Imagination Technologies. After a gradual transition to part-time consulting and semi-retirement in 2021, he now combines reserve volunteer work with photography in rural England while remaining available for occasional IT engagements. His career spans product-facing engineering, consultancy and embedded/graphics design, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-minded approach to complex codebases. Known for longevity and adaptability, he brings institutional knowledge of legacy and modern systems and a taste for low-intervention collaboration—so don’t be surprised if a reply takes a while.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at Imperial College LondonHills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge
English, French
Stackoverflow
1,795reputation
611kreached
27answers
0questions
jenkins
top-1%
groovy
top-5%
jenkins-pipeline
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
spock10
jenkins-plugin10
jenkins10
jenkins-pipeline10
testing9
unit-testing9
continuous-integration9
groovy9
pipeline9
shell6
hudson6
shared-libraries6
mocking6
windows6
environment-variables6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
macg33zr/jenkins-experimental-pipelines
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
macg33zr/pipelineUnit
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
Unit testing of Jenkins pipeline code with Spock
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 1 month
jenkinsgroovypipelinejenkins-plugincode-pipeline
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