Joel Dickson
Director at Hosted Solutions Australia
Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Dickson is a director-level technology leader based in Bangkok with over a decade of experience delivering end-to-end products, architecting applications and databases, and coaching Agile/Scrum teams to higher velocity. He has a strong operational background in virtualization, network services provisioning and database maintenance, and a track record of moving teams from long release cycles to weekly sprints and zero-downtime deployments. At Agoda he progressed from Senior Development Manager to Director, blending hands-on engineering with people management and outsourcing strategies. Joel also contributes to open-source testing tools, notably improving NUnit’s TestCaseSourceAttribute to support parameterized data sources and more robust test ordering. Known for pragmatic architecture and continuous delivery practices, he brings a systems-level view that connects infrastructure, QA and product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Agile Management, Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Agile Management at Scrum AllianceA.D. IT, Networking, A.D. IT, Networking at TAFE
English, Thai
Github Skills (6)
nunit10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
csharp10
testing10
test-automation9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nunit/nunit
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
NUnit Framework
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:57 commits, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joel made contributions focused on enhancing the NUnit framework, primarily by adding new functionality to `TestCaseSourceAttribute`. This involved implementing the ability to pass parameters to methods used as data sources and adding exception handling for incorrect parameter inputs. The user's work also included refactoring and addressing build errors within the test suite. Additionally, they contributed to test suite improvements related to test ordering.
dotnettestingtest-frameworkc-sharpnunit-framework
agoda-com/AgodaAnalyzers
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
A set of opinionated Roslyn analyzers for C#
Contributions:12 reviews, 82 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years 6 months
roslyndotnetroslyn-analyzersanalysisroslyn-analyzer
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