Sterling Greene
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Gradle Inc.
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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RockstarSterling Greene is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience focused on build tooling and performance engineering, based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. At Gradle Inc. since 2014, he drives improvements to Gradle’s build and test infrastructure, specializing in profiling, test-report aggregation, and maintainable build processes. His open-source work on high-impact projects like gradle/gradle and gradle/gradle-profiler shows a hands-on ability to modernize tooling, normalize flamegraphs for better comparability, and remove deprecated features without sacrificing stability. Sterling combines deep knowledge of Gradle internals with practical test engineering—implementing TestNG suite configuration and dependency-aware test artifacts—to help teams get faster, more reliable CI feedback. Colleagues rely on him for improving developer productivity and uncovering subtle performance regressions that traditional tooling can miss.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
973reputation
60kreached
17answers
1question
gradle
top-5%
Github Skills (22)
performance-monitor10
performance-analytics10
code-profiling10
groovy10
testng10
testing10
test-framework10
java10
javas10
performance-analysis10
profiling10
performance-monitoring10
gradlew10
gradle10
spock9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gradle/gradle
Sep 2013 - Jan 2023
Adaptable, fast automation for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 releases, 1474 reviews, 5919 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sterling's contributions primarily involve enhancements to the build process of the Gradle project, focusing on the creation and configuration of test reports. The user implemented features related to test result aggregation and configuration of TestNG suites and assertions, as well as creating and utilizing dependency-based artifacts within those test suites. They demonstrate a solid understanding of the internals of Gradle's testing framework.
pythongradlegroovyautomationjava
gradle/gradle-profiler
May 2017 - Feb 2021
A tool for gathering profiling and benchmarking information for Gradle builds
Role in this project:Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sterling primarily focused on improving the performance and maintainability of the Gradle profiler. Their contributions include updating the project to newer Gradle versions, removing deprecated features, and normalizing stack frames within flamegraphs to enhance comparability. Furthermore, they modified the build process and dependencies. The user also made changes to the flamegraph generation process and test infrastructure.
benchmarkinggradleprofilingbuildsgathering
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