Jeffrey Cameron
VP, Software Development at Assent
Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolJeffrey Cameron is a seasoned software leader with over 25 years in engineering and 15 years in progressive management roles, currently serving as VP of Software Development at Assent in Nova Scotia. He combines deep hands-on technical experience—ranging from C and .NET for large-scale census systems to modern full‑stack work on open-source tooling like the Pickles living documentation generator—with proven delivery leadership that never missed release deadlines. Jeffrey has a track record of driving measurable impact: cutting regression effort and feedback times through automation, delivering cost-saving features, and enabling platform scalability improvements. He’s equally at home mentoring teams and instituting culture and process changes—introducing BDD, Kanban, shorter sprint cadences, and continuous feedback—that reduced attrition and improved quality. Notably, his open-source fixes improved cross-platform compatibility (e.g., replacing Ninject with Autofac for Mono) and strengthened test automation, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and dev experience.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at St. Francis Xavier UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Dalhousie University
French, English
Stackoverflow
10,125reputation
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60answers
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singleton
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Github Skills (23)
specflow10
testing10
cucumber10
xunit10
netframework10
csproj10
dotnet-core10
bdd10
csharp10
unit-testing9
nunit9
singleton9
design-patterns9
markdown-it8
markdown8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
x97mdr/pickles
Sep 2011 - Aug 2012
A documentation generator for features written in the Gherkin language
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:84 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily focused on setting up the example project to use xUnit as a test runner within the context of a documentation generator for Gherkin language features. This involved modifying the project's configuration files, specifically the .csproj files, and incorporating dependencies for testing frameworks like xUnit. They also addressed a missing file due to an ignore rule and corrected unit tests. These changes suggest work related to integrating testing into the project and ensuring the functionality of the testing setup.
documentation-generatorgherkingherkin-language
picklesdoc/pickles
Aug 2012 - Mar 2013
The open source living documentation generator
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the "pickles" project, a living documentation generator. Their work involved adding the ability to reference multiple examples in scenario outlines, correcting failing unit tests, and replacing the dependency injection framework Ninject with Autofac for better Mono platform compatibility. They also fixed a bug related to example name output and addressed issues with the layout and styling of the generated documentation.
living-documentationdocumentation-generatorbddcucumberspecflow
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