Christopher Dancy
Principal Cloud Development Engineer at Pegasystems
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Dancy is a Principal Cloud Development Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure at Pegasystems, where he progressed from DevOps Engineer on the Performance Engineering team to principal technical lead. He blends back-end engineering and DevOps expertise, contributing to notable open-source projects like the gradle-docker-plugin and a Jenkins REST client—work that improved container management, Docker-java integration, and Jenkins API reliability. Based in Springfield, MA, he pairs pragmatic performance engineering instincts with a developer’s attention to API and tooling ergonomics, often focusing on robustness and test coverage. A self-described "Professional Nerd," Christopher leverages a BA in Computer Science to bridge CI/CD, containerization, and Java-based integrations, and he has a track record of subtle but impactful improvements such as exposing finer-grained container controls and tightening request/response models in client libraries.
11 years of coding experience
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Westfield State University
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Github Skills (30)
docker10
groovy10
testing10
dockers10
java10
javas10
jenkins10
rest-api10
jenkins-ci10
gradlew10
gradle10
api-design9
clientside9
apim9
api9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cdancy/jenkins-rest
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Java client, built on top of jclouds, for working with Jenkins REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 201 commits, 158 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christopher made various changes related to the Jenkins REST API client. Their contributions include fixing the `cancel` endpoint to align with a new `RequestStatus` model, which involved modifying code in Java test files and the core `QueueApi.java` interface. Furthermore, they refactored code to use primitives over boxed versions and addressed issues related to the `crumb` header and plugin management by adding new endpoints. The user also contributed to unit tests.
jenkinsapicontinuous-deliverymavengroovy
bmuschko/gradle-docker-plugin
Oct 2015 - Oct 2019
Gradle plugin for managing Docker images and containers.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 317 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed extensively to the Gradle Docker plugin, focusing on enhancing its functionality and improving its usability. Their work included adding support for log drivers, refactoring code, and exposing new properties for container management like force, removeVolumes, and privileged. Furthermore, the user upgraded the docker-java library and added new tests for features to support the Docker-java library.
containersgradledockerdocker-imagesgradle-plugin
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