Joseph Cava
Principal Engineer at Sonatype
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Cava is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, AI-first platforms and developer tooling from Las Vegas. He combines deep full-stack and infrastructure expertise—Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP—with hands-on CI/CD and SaaS delivery experience, leading cross-functional teams at Sonatype and earlier as a senior architect and engineering leader. Joseph has a track record of modernizing stacks (including migrations from .NET to Java), automating builds and deployments (Jenkins pipelines, Helm, FluxCD), and contributing practical open-source improvements such as Dockerized Nexus builds and front-end UX plugins. Comfortable shifting between architect, product, and delivery roles, he mentors teams in Agile/TDD practices and operationalizes resilient systems at scale. He holds an MBA and BS in Information Systems from UNLV, bringing both technical depth and business-minded engineering leadership.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Information Systems, MBA Information Systems at UNLV Lee Business School
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
docker10
jquery10
plugin-development10
dockers10
cicd10
chef-client10
automation10
front-end-development10
dockerfile10
jenkins10
chef-solo10
jenkins-ci10
automations10
git-repository9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed
Jun 2011 - May 2021
This plugin is used to fix elements on the page (top, bottom, anywhere); however, it still allows the element to continue to move left or right with the horizontal scroll.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 292 commits, 10 PRs in 10 years
Contributions summary:Joseph's contributions primarily involve the development of a JavaScript plugin to fix elements on a webpage while allowing for horizontal scrolling. They added the core script and a minified version. The user further corrected comments and added features like a limit option, influencing the element's behavior. Additionally, they added test assets and demo pages to showcase the plugin's capabilities, demonstrating a focus on UI and usability.
fixscrollerscrollelementsjavascript
sonatype/docker-nexus3
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Dockerized version of Nexus Repo Manager 3
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 22 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Joseph focused on improving the build, testing, and deployment processes for the Dockerized Nexus Repository Manager. They implemented a Jenkinsfile to automate these tasks, and updated the Dockerfile. They also made changes related to the chef-nexus-repository-manager, including upgrading the server-jre version. Finally, they updated the Dockerfile and labels in the project's Dockerfile to reflect changes in the Nexus Repository Manager version.
dockerfiledocker-imagedockernexusrepository-management
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