Kurt Madel
Senior Solutions Engineer at vCluster
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Madel is a senior solutions engineer with 13 years of experience helping enterprise customers adopt and operationalize continuous delivery and cloud-native tooling. He blends hands-on engineering (APIs, CI/CD, Jenkins automation, and front-end work) with sales and enablement leadership—most recently leading global solution architecture and onboarding programs at CloudBees and now driving pre-sales at vCluster. His background includes building Apple Pay APIs and streamlining REST/CI workflows at Capital One, and open-source contributions to prominent Jenkins projects (including Jenkins Slack integration and CloudBees pipeline automation). Kurt is known for pragmatic, customer-focused solutions that bridge product, sales, and engineering, and for scaling enablement through repeatable workshops and OKRs. A former U.S. Marine Corps mortarman, he brings disciplined execution and a practical, results-driven approach to technical strategy and team building.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) History, Bachelor of Arts (BA) History at Virginia Tech
English
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
expressjs10
groovy10
css10
workflow-engine10
cicd10
java10
javas10
automation10
slack10
pug10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
automations10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
cloudbees-core-cd-workshop/helloworld-nodejs
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
A simple Node.js JavaScript application to use with the CD Acceleration with CloudBees Workshop
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kurt primarily focused on front-end development, introducing templating with Pug, implementing CSS styling, and integrating a testing framework. They added features related to displaying build and commit metadata, reflecting a focus on the presentation layer. Further, they modified the application for context routing and addressed styling and layout issues.
workshopcloudbeesnode-jsjavascriptacceleration
jenkinsci/slack-plugin
Dec 2015 - Nov 2018
A Jenkins plugin for posting notifications to a Slack channel
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 49 PRs, 90 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Kurt contributed to the `jenkinsci/slack-plugin` repository, focusing on workflow integration and bug fixes related to Slack notifications within the Jenkins environment. Their work involved modifying Java files to enhance Slack message delivery and address issues such as Jenkins workflow support. The commits show the user's ability to extend the plugin's functionality and resolve errors, improving the overall integration of Jenkins with Slack.
jenkinsjenkins-pluginnotificationsslackposting
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