Robert Wagner
Principal Engineer at Octopus Deploy
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Wagner is a Principal Engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building reliable .NET and deployment tooling from Brisbane. At Octopus Deploy he has progressed from coder to principal, shaping architecture and delivery for release automation while also founding feedz.io to bring product-thinking into his engineering work. He is an active open-source contributor, helping modernize DbUp for .NET Core and improving build tooling and test quality in a widely used database migration library. Known for mentoring and leading teams, he blends hands-on backend development with long-term maintainability and CI/CD expertise. Collected across consulting and product roles, his experience spans enterprise integrations, WPF/UIs, and scalable server-side systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering and Data Communications, Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering and Data Communications at Queensland University of Technology
Github Skills (8)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
testing9
xunit9
dependency-management8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DbUp/DbUp
Aug 2017 - May 2022
DbUp is a .NET library that helps you to deploy changes to SQL Server databases. It tracks which SQL scripts have been run already, and runs the change scripts that are needed to get your database up to date.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 25 reviews, 143 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on updating the project's core components and dependencies. Their commits show an effort to migrate the project to a new project system, likely improving build processes and project structure. The user also updated system packages and refactored test code, indicating a focus on maintaining code quality and ensuring compatibility with newer .NET versions. Furthermore, the user contributed towards supporting netcore.
net-librarysqlservertsqlsql-scriptssql-server
OctopusDeploy/Halibut
Jul 2016 - Sep 2022
| Public | A secure communication stack for .NET using JSON-RPC over SSL.
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 110 commits in 6 years 3 months
securerpcdotnetsslcommunication-stack
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