Bruce Emehiser
Software Engineer at IBM
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolBruce Emehiser is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years' experience building and testing cross-platform systems for high-speed data transfer at IBM Aspera in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in modernizing build and CI ecosystems—migrating legacy Autotools/Visual Studio and Ant workflows to CMake, Conan/Artifactory, and Gradle/Maven—and automating multi-OS pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, and Vault. His work spans core C/C++ and Java development, desktop GUIs (Qt), cloud-native object-storage transfer, and extensive test engineering across Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris, and AIX. An active open-source contributor, he’s helped extend Conan Center Index recipes to support unusual architectures like s390/s390x and resolved platform-specific issues, reflecting a focus on portability and reproducible builds. A former CS tutor (Cum Laude BS), he brings a collaborative teaching mindset to tooling and automation, enjoying turning tedious workflows into reliable, time-saving infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science and the Arts, High School Science and the Arts at Home SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (C.S), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (C.S) at Eastern Washington University
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Github Skills (14)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
cpp-library10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
package-management10
dependency-analysis10
conan10
zlib9
c-ares8
libcurl8
boost7
libssh7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/conan-center-index
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 23 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Bruce contributed to the Conan Center Index by implementing and modifying recipes for various libraries. Their work included adding support for new architectures (s390 and s390x), adding a debug logging option, fixing an AIX-related issue, and allowing a specific zlib version range. Additionally, the user updated the libcurl recipe to use a newer version of c-ares and specified rapidjson as a header-only library.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
bemehiser/Tether
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
ClockworkMod Tether Public Linux Code (with a patch for Ubuntu 17.10.1, gcc 7.2)
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years
patchlinuxclockworkmodtethergcc
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