Olivier Dagenais
ASIC Engineer 4 at Ciena
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolOlivier Dagenais is an adaptable software and ASIC engineer with over 15 years of hands-on industry experience and more than 20 years in the broader tech ecosystem, holding both a BCompSc and MCompSc from Carleton University. Currently driving build, tool automation and integration for ASIC and FPGA teams at Ciena, he blends low-level hardware support with deep software engineering and DevOps practices cultivated at Kinaxis and Microsoft. Olivier is bilingual (French/English) and known for pragmatic modernization work—such as upgrading Jenkins Git/TFS plugins to modern HTTP clients and enhancing authentication support—and for strengthening test automation on notable open-source projects like ImageResizer. Colleagues rely on him for reducing duplicated code, improving reliability, and shipping robust tooling that bridges product and infrastructure teams.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Carleton University
French, English
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unit-testing10
apidoc10
testing10
java10
javas10
http-client10
api10
dotnet-core10
jenkins-plugin10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
csharp10
jgit10
git9
abstract-class9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/tfs-plugin
Jun 2013 - Feb 2017
Jenkins tfs plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 226 commits, 180 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Jenkins TFS plugin. Their work involved updating the POM to a new version and adding method stubs for overrides. They implemented the `calcRevisionsFromBuild()` method and extracted the `AbstractHistoryCommand` to remove duplicated code, enhancing the plugin's history functionality. The user also added support for filtering from a changeset, indicating focus on refining and extending the plugin's core features.
jenkinstfsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugingocd
jenkinsci/git-client-plugin
Feb 2014 - Sep 2016
Git client API for Jenkins plugins
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integration EngineerContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Olivier focused on modernizing the Git client API for Jenkins plugins by switching to the modern Apache HttpComponents API, replacing older dependencies. This involved refactoring code in `CliGitAPIImpl.java` and other relevant files to utilize the new API and implement features such as self-signed certificate support and NTLM authentication. They also added support for JGit with Apache HTTP client, enabling improved authentication and connection management.
jenkinsjenkins-security-scan-enabledapi-pluginjenkins-plugingit-client
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