Eric Helvey
Distinguished Software Engineer at Capital One
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Helvey is a distinguished software engineer and architect with over two decades of experience building and scaling engineering teams and web services, currently leading technical strategy at Capital One. He blends deep hands-on expertise in PHP, Perl, Python, Linux, PostgreSQL and ETL with strong design and Agile coaching skills to help teams pick the right tools and use them effectively. His career spans roles from principal developer and chief architect to senior technical leadership across finance, security, and nonprofit sectors, evidencing a knack for translating complex requirements into robust, production-ready systems. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has enhanced the Jenkins pipeline-aws-plugin to support text uploads to S3 while resolving charset and test issues—illustrating attention to interoperability and quality. With an MS in EE/CS from Ohio University and a background that stretches from embedded C to cloud-native stacks, he pairs broad technical depth with pragmatic delivery focus.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Chemical Engineering, BS Chemical Engineering at Tufts UniversityDiploma Chemistry, Diploma Chemistry at TJHSS&T8th Grade Liberal Arts, 8th Grade Liberal Arts at International School, RangoonMS EE/CS, MS EE/CS at Ohio UniversityROTC ROTC, ROTC ROTC at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (12)
aws-s310
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
aws10
amazon-s310
java10
jenkins-pipeline10
jenkins-plugin10
s3-bucket10
junit9
utf8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/pipeline-aws-plugin
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Jenkins Pipeline Step Plugin for AWS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the `pipeline-aws-plugin` by adding functionality to upload strings to S3 objects. This involved modifying existing classes and adding new ones to handle the text uploads. These changes included adding new parameters in the configuration files and related documentation updates. Furthermore, the user addressed unit test failures and parse errors while handling character set encoding.
jenkinspipeline-stepjenkins-pluginpipelinejenkins-api-plugin
helver/pipeline-aws-plugin
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Jenkins Pipeline Step Plugin for AWS
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
jenkinspipeline-stepjenkins-pluginpipelinegocd
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