Robby Pocase
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobby Pocase is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of hands-on experience building DevOps-driven, production-focused software and teams from Huntsville, AL. He blends deep automation and CI/CD expertise—earned at ADTRAN and through contributions to Jenkins Perforce integrations—with product-minded engineering leadership honed at DESE Research and now Canonical. Robby excels at reducing developer toil by introducing local-to-cloud Kubernetes workflows, observability, and automated test suites that accelerate safe delivery and rapid prototyping. He pairs technical mentorship and backlog stewardship with pragmatic architecture decisions, often acting as scrum master, product owner, and tech lead in one. An active maintainer in SCM/build tooling, he has improved Jenkins plugins to handle concurrent builds and cleaner workspace management, reflecting a focus on reliability and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Auburn University
English
Github Skills (10)
version-control10
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
build-automation10
sc10
java10
perforce10
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/p4-plugin
May 2015 - Nov 2017
Perforce plugin for Jenkins
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robby primarily contributed to the Perforce plugin for Jenkins by improving the build and sync processes. Their work involved refactoring the `ClientHelper` class for workspace cleanup, adding a "quiet" option to suppress Perforce messages during sync, and addressing concurrent build issues. They also made changes to fix deprecation warnings and refactor for increased maintainability. The user demonstrated knowledge of build automation and SCM integration.
perforcejenkinsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-pluginscm
rpocase/ubuntu-cloud-docs
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Public Docs for Ubuntu in the Clouds
Contributions:29 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year
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