Jesse Houwing
Trainer, Coach And Tinkerer at Xebia Academy
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJesse Houwing is a trainer, coach and tinkerer with 12+ years helping teams and organizations adopt Agile, DevOps and GitHub-centered practices from Utrecht, Netherlands. As Xebia’s Chief Trainer for Microsoft and GitHub, a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, GitHub Accredited Trainer and former Microsoft ALM Ranger/MVP, he blends deep hands-on engineering experience with engaging, career-changing training that often sparks epiphanies. He’s a pragmatic technologist who has contributed to high-profile open source projects like Renovate—adding Azure Pipelines marketplace support—and who still delights in taking systems (and his morning coffee ritual) apart to optimize them. Comfortable coaching at every level from greenfield startups to large legacy enterprises, Jesse pairs technical credibility in ALM and automation with a rare gift for inspiring sustained behavioral change.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at ISG Arcus LelystadMicrosoft Lead Enterprise Architect Program, Microsoft Lead Enterprise Architect Program at MicrosoftBsc of Science, Computer Science, Bsc of Science, Computer Science at SaxionInformatica, Informatica at University of TwenteVWO, VWO at Ubbo Emmius Lyceum Stadskanaal
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (43)
azure-devops-server10
visual-studio-code10
unit-testing10
dependency-management10
git10
github10
msbuild10
githubactions10
vbnet10
visual-studio10
azure-devops10
azure-pipelines10
azure10
tfs10
linq9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
renovatebot/renovate
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed to the repository by adding support for Azure DevOps Marketplace tasks. They updated the download location for marketplace tasks and modified the code to include task IDs for built-in Azure Pipelines tasks. Additionally, the user replaced `vso-task-lib` and `vsts-task-lib` with `azure-pipelines-task-lib` within the code. They also fixed an issue related to including forked repositories in the project.
automationclinpmpackage-managementgitlab
jessehouwing/azure-pipelines-agent
Oct 2021 - Jan 2026
Azure Pipelines Agent 🚀
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 2 months
azure-pipelines-agentazure-pipelinesagentazurepipelines
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