Kenneth Rogers
Cloud Architect at ABB E-mobility
Clayton, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Rogers is a cloud architect and seasoned software engineer with over two decades of professional experience and a recent focus on CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud-native deployments. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Java (Spring), C/C++ including embedded systems, and JavaScript/Node.js, having driven infrastructure and plugin improvements at CloudBees and contributed meaningful fixes and tests to the widely used Jenkins Kubernetes plugin. Based in Clayton, NC, he blends platform-level thinking with pragmatic engineering—optimizing dynamic Kubernetes agent pod templates and pipeline integrations to make developer workflows more reliable. His background spans firmware and application development at Lexmark and IBM through enterprise media and e‑mobility, giving him rare cross-domain fluency from embedded devices to cloud orchestration. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented problem solver who consistently turns complex integration challenges into maintainable, test-covered solutions.
7 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of KentuckyBachelor of Science (BS) Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biochemistry at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (10)
javas10
jenkins10
kubernetes10
jenkins-ci10
agent10
java10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/kubernetes-plugin
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Jenkins plugin to run dynamic agents in a Kubernetes/Docker environment
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 32 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin. Their contributions included cleaning up the Snippet Generator output, modifying default values, and adding tests for the PodTemplateStep. They also addressed code review feedback, reverted changes, and updated tests to ensure proper functionality. The user demonstrated expertise in improving the plugin's pipeline integration and modifying Kubernetes agent pod templates.
jenkinsagentjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugindocker-environment
kerogers-cloudbees/kubernetes-plugin
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Jenkins plugin to run dynamic agents in a Kubernetes/Docker environment
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
jenkinsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugindocker-environmentloadtesting
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