James Forsee
DevOps Engineer at Ping Identity
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Forsee is a DevOps Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable infrastructure and tooling from the Denver metro area. A University of Portland computer science graduate with a mathematics minor, he blends systems-level thinking—evident in a Java-to-MIPS compiler and an intrusion detection research paper—with production-grade DevOps at Ping Identity. He has contributed backend fixes and test coverage to the widely used Jenkins Build Pipeline Plugin, improving trigger behavior for projects in folders. Earlier experience at Sage includes a functional code generator that produced application frameworks shipped in commercial products. A former collegiate endurance athlete, he brings disciplined, quality-first engineering and a preference for clean, maintainable solutions over shortcuts. He is actively open to opportunities in Portland and Boulder and pairs academic rigor with pragmatic product impact.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Portland
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
build-pipelines10
pipe10
java10
pipeline10
plugin10
testing10
parameterization8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/build-pipeline-plugin
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Build Pipeline Plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Build Pipeline Plugin, focusing on enhancing the manual build trigger functionality. Their work involved modifying the `BuildCardExtension` to search for upstream projects in different folders, improving the plugin's flexibility. They also added and updated tests within `BuildPipelineTriggerTest.java` to cover scenarios involving projects located in folders and using various trigger configurations such as parameterized trigger. Additionally, they refactored code related to retrieving trigger configurations for upstream projects.
jenkinspipelinejenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugingocd
JamesForsee/TestRepository
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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