Craig Shea
DevOps Engineer at ALMAC CLINICAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Shea is a DevOps engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience and deep roots in .NET, Windows Server, and automated build/release pipelines. He has driven measurable improvements—raising deployment success from 70% to 97% and slashing a report generation workload from 45 minutes to 5 seconds—by applying SOLID design, DDD/CQRS thinking, and pragmatic performance tuning. At Almac he built PowerShell modules with Pester tests and automated processes across vRA, New Relic, Octopus Deploy and proposed Artifactory adoption, while contributing to notable open-source projects like QuickFIX/n, Pester, and Git for Windows to harden build and packaging workflows. Comfortable across networking, virtualization, containers and CI/CD, he blends developer discipline with operational automation to simplify delivery at scale. Known for clear justifications and incremental modernizations, he often focuses on behind-the-scenes reliability and developer experience improvements that pay long-term dividends.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Montgomery County Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.92 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.92 / 4.00 at Kutztown University of PennsylvaniaComputer Science, Computer Science at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (33)
nuget10
testing10
bash10
wix10
cicd10
bash-shell10
script10
iswix10
build-automation10
bdd10
sh10
powershell10
software-packaging10
shell10
dotnet9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
pester/Pester
Nov 2018 - May 2021
Pester is the ubiquitous test and mock framework for PowerShell.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 212 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily contributed to the testing framework, Pester. Their work focused on improving the test suite by addressing issues related to version checks in forks and ensuring accurate reporting of scenario names in console output. They also implemented support for "Scenario Template" and made general code cleanup improvements, contributing to the overall maintainability and usability of the testing framework. Further, the user modified the testing framework to allow the use of the scope parameter with Feature and Scenario.
assertionspowershelltestingbddtdd-framework
git-for-windows/build-extra
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Additional files and scripts to help build Git for Windows on MSYS2.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Software Installer Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Software Installer EngineerContributions:40 commits, 9 PRs, 176 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily contributed to the build and packaging of Git for Windows, with a focus on the MSI installer. They implemented features such as software tagging for inventory management, configuration of the Git Credentials Manager, and the inclusion of release notes. Significant changes involved updating the WiX toolset, modifying the build process, and ensuring correct file associations and registry settings, indicating a strong involvement in the deployment and configuration aspects of the project.
version-controlwindowslibgit2additionalgit-for-windows
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