Stephen Connolly
Principal Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Malahide, Ireland
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Top SchoolStephen Connolly is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable, and secure platforms, currently focused on architecture and workflow execution at Radiant and previously spearheading Tekton-based migrations and Kubernetes-native VPC deployments at CloudBees. He blends hands-on engineering—writing operators for Vault and Cassandra and automating infrastructure with Helm, Terraform, and Pulumi—with leadership in SRE and product security to enable enterprise multi-tenant deployments. A long-time Apache Maven committer and former Vice President for Apache Maven, he pairs deep open-source stewardship with practical contributions to high-profile projects like Jenkins, Maven, and the GitHub Java API. Stephen’s background is unusually interdisciplinary—he holds a PhD in Chemistry and has applied rigorous computational and simulation methods in consulting roles at Stanford—bringing a scientific, measurement-driven approach to software architecture and reliability.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry at University College Dublin
German, English
Stackoverflow
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jenkins
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maven
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Github Skills (69)
github10
abstract-syntax-tree10
testing10
plugin-development10
maven-plugin10
sc10
javas10
automation10
junit10
automation-testing10
subversion10
build-automation10
jenkins-plugin10
jtest10
maven10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/credentials-plugin
Feb 2012 - Jul 2019
Provides Jenkins with extension points to securely store, manage, and bind credentials data to other Jenkins plugins, builds, pipelines, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:441 commits, 97 PRs, 249 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephen contributed to the development and maintenance of the credentials plugin for Jenkins. Their work primarily involved implementing new credential types and features, such as adding common credential signatures and creating a system for tracking the usage of these credentials. The user also focused on improving the codebase through refactoring and adding utilities, alongside fixing several issues related to credential handling, access control, and improving the user experience.
jenkinsjenkins-pluginsgroovyjenkins-pluginbind
mojohaus/versions
Aug 2008 - Jan 2014
Versions Maven Plugin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:445 commits, 4 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on improving the version comparison logic within the Maven plugin. Their commits demonstrate a focus on refining code, safely rewriting XML using StAX and Woodstox, and updating properties within the build. They also worked on fixing issues related to dependency and plugin version resolution, and they contributed to the implementation of new mojos to display dependencies.
maven-pluginmavenmojohausjavaversions-maven-plugin
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