Jorge Costa
Principal DevOps Engineer at Trimble Inc.
Kerava, Finland
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Top SchoolJorge Costa is a Principal DevOps Engineer with 13+ years of experience, currently leading build and CI/CD infrastructure for Trimble’s desktop products from his base in Kerava, Finland. He combines deep development skills (C#, C++, Python, TypeScript) with large-scale automation—managing hundreds of build agents and orchestrating thousands of daily tests across unit-to-UI suites. Jorge has a strong background in safety-critical and embedded systems testing from aerospace and transport projects, which informs his rigour in build reliability and test automation. A pragmatic advocate for bringing web and cloud practices into desktop engineering, he champions open source (notably contributing C++ lambda parsing to the SonarQube C++ community plugin) and prefers scripting over brittle batch files. Known for optimizing build pipelines end-to-end, he focuses on measurable efficiency gains and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciate, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Licenciate, Electronics and Computer Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (11)
grammar10
plugin-development10
c-language10
grammars10
text-parsing10
parsing10
cprogramming-language10
implement10
sonarqube9
nuget6
configurations6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SonarOpenCommunity/sonar-cxx
Oct 2012 - May 2017
SonarQube C++ Community plugin (cxx plugin): This plugin adds C++ support to SonarQube with the focus on integration of existing C++ tools.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 82 commits, 88 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the parsing and implementation of C++ lambda expressions within the SonarQube C++ plugin. Their work focused on enhancing the plugin's ability to analyze and interpret C++ code, specifically by adding support for lambda expressions. These contributions involved creating test cases to validate the parsing of various lambda expression forms, along with modifications to the grammar implementation. The user also implemented changes to the balanced tokens and other features of the C++ language parser, and addressed deprecated interfaces to improve code quality.
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jmecosta/sonar-cxx
Jan 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 348 pushes, 68 branches in 4 years 2 months
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