Jim Burger
South Australia
Summary
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RockstarJim Burger is a seasoned software delivery leader with 15 years’ experience blending hands-on development, architecture, and team coaching to consistently meet customer needs. He applies agile and lean principles to shape efficient, accountable teams and advises across the delivery lifecycle from server automation and scripting to Microsoft TFS administration. Jim contributes to open-source projects—helping test and harden DbUp’s database upgrade flows and modernizing front-end build processes for Octopus Deploy’s community library—showing a knack for pragmatic quality improvements. Based in South Australia, he balances trust and security concerns with practical developer ergonomics at Octopus Deploy. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical guidance and for translating complex requirements into auditable, testable solutions. Outside work he pursues music, gaming, and CTF hackery, reflecting a curiosity for systems, security, and creative problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
testing10
nunit10
gulp10
nsubstitute10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
react10
test-automation10
dotnet9
proxy9
net9
dompurify9
asp-net9
pug9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DbUp/DbUp
Feb 2011 - Oct 2019
DbUp is a .NET library that helps you to deploy changes to SQL Server databases. It tracks which SQL scripts have been run already, and runs the change scripts that are needed to get your database up to date.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:47 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jim's primary contributions involve setting up the test structure for the project, including integrating the NUnit framework and a mocking framework (NSubstitute). They wrote unit tests to verify database upgrade functionality, covering scenarios like upgrading an out-of-date database, creating a new database, and attempting to upgrade an up-to-date database. The commits demonstrate an understanding of testing best practices by including tests for successful upgrades, correct logging, and persistence of executed scripts.
net-librarysqlservertsqlsql-scriptssql-server
OctopusDeploy/Library
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
| Public | A repository of step templates and other community-contributed extensions to Octopus Deploy
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 26 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the front-end of the Octopus Deploy library. They refactored the build process, replacing deprecated tools like gulp-cssnano and jade with more modern alternatives. Additionally, the user made changes to front-end components, including fixing indentation, updating dependencies and improving the description display.
octopustemplateextensionsoctopus-deploy
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