Manuel Soto
Director Of Engineering at SUSE
Mairena del Aljarafe, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolManuel Soto is an engineering leader and founder with over two decades of software experience and 14 years in senior management, currently directing engineering for SUSE’s Application Collection. He blends hands-on backend engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Jenkins and GitHub integrations—with strategic leadership of distributed teams (80+ engineers at VMware). His expertise spans release engineering, DevOps, developer experience and delivery pipelines, rooted in founding and scaling bootstrapped startups that were later acquired. Manuel is data- and OKR-driven, focused on reducing developer friction and increasing delivery velocity while maintaining quality and security. Notably, he has deep familiarity with CI/CD internals and has contributed code and tests that improved Jenkins plugins, Subversion integration and GitHub API handling. Based in Andalusia, Spain, he combines product-minded engineering with practical experience building cloud-native, enterprise-grade tooling.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Seville
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
continuous-integration10
github10
back-end-development10
testing10
css10
ui-design10
java10
sc10
plugin10
javas10
junit10
subversion10
github-api10
pipe10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/build-pipeline-plugin
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Build Pipeline Plugin
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 16 PRs, 25 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily focused on improving the user interface and layout of the Build Pipeline Plugin. They addressed issues related to long job names and overall Jenkins layout compatibility. The contributions also include code cleanup and refactoring of the Jelly and CSS files, streamlining the visual presentation and user experience of the plugin. They have contributed to CSS styling and HTML structure.
build-pipelines
jenkinsci/subversion-plugin
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
Jenkins subversion plugin
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 61 commits, 90 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily worked on the backend of the Jenkins Subversion plugin, focusing on implementing features and addressing issues related to Subversion integration. Their contributions involved modifications to core classes like `SubversionSCM` and `WorkspaceUpdater`. They also addressed problems in polling, environment variables and the overall validation of repository URLs.
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