Ray Kivisto
Sr. Principal Development Support Engineer at CloudBees
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRay Kivisto is a Sr. Principal Development Support Engineer with over a decade of experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines, root cause analysis, and production troubleshooting across Jenkins, Kubernetes, and traditional Linux/AIX environments. He began in compiler release engineering at IBM, evolving into a DevOps and support leader at CloudBees where he leads squads, mentors peers, and bridges escalations into engineering fixes. Ray designs and automates end-to-end delivery—builds, packaging (rpm/deb/installp), install verification, and repository management—often scripting solutions in Perl and shell and using Docker for testing and image publishing. His notable open-source contribution to CloudBees' jenkins-scripts includes improving update-center certificate handling and offline update support, reflecting a knack for pragmatic, resilient tooling. Based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, he pairs deep systems-level knowledge with hands-on automation to prevent outages rather than just react to them.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Grade A - First Class Standing, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Grade A - First Class Standing at Lakehead University
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Github Skills (9)
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
groovy10
cicd10
scripting9
automation9
automations9
debugging8
mono6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudbees/jenkins-scripts
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 16 commits, 10 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ray primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the `uc-certificate-fix` scripts within the `cloudbees/jenkins-scripts` repository. Their work focused on addressing update center certificate issues, specifically adding and refining logic to handle certificate validation and offline update centers. They implemented code to automatically refresh update center data, adjusted error handling, and improved the messaging around the script's success or failure, also recommending assisted updates, and linking to related documentation. They also added a path for offline update center and other versions.
rkivisto/pipeline-deployment-demo
Feb 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:8 PRs, 13 pushes, 23 branches in 5 years 2 months
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