Chris Hillery
Senior Software Engineer at Couchbase
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Hillery is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sacramento with over a decade of hands-on experience building robust build and test infrastructure for distributed systems, currently focused at Couchbase. He brings deep systems and data-engine expertise from long-term work on XQuery engines and NoSQL projects at Oracle, BEA, and academic collaboration on Apache AsterixDB, where he improved test frameworks and added JSON and CSV handling for test results. Equally comfortable in DevOps, he has hardened Docker build pipelines for Couchbase images with multi-architecture support and supply-chain safeguards like SHA256 checks. Known for quietly improving developer velocity and test reliability, he blends low-level engine knowledge with pragmatic automation to keep large codebases ship-ready.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, SacramentoBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (27)
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java10
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test-automation10
ubuntu9
cicd9
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
apache/asterixdb
Jan 2014 - Sep 2016
Mirror of Apache AsterixDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:54 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the Apache AsterixDB project by introducing features and improvements to the test framework. This includes adding a category attribute to test cases to enable skipping slow tests, and introducing a system property to skip slow tests set by the surefire plugin. Furthermore, the user refactored the test framework to support the use of JSON as a test result type and added a test to validate the new feature. Finally, there were various changes to adapt the test framework to work with CSV output.
dbmsparquetasterixdbolapapache
couchbase/docker
Mar 2015 - Sep 2022
Dockerfiles and configuration scripts for the Docker Hub Official Couchbase images
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 179 commits, 92 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the Dockerfiles within the repository. Their commits demonstrate an understanding of Docker, including creating, modifying, and updating Docker images for Couchbase Server. They made changes to the build process by enabling multi-architecture support, improved security by checking the SHA256 sum of downloaded installers and introduced the ability to override environment variables.
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