Steve Boardwell
Staff DevOps Consultant at CloudBees
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorSteve Boardwell is a Staff DevOps Consultant with 12 years of experience helping regulated, global organisations scale their software delivery and automation. Based in Berlin, he combines hands-on build-and-release engineering with strategic DevOps consulting, reflecting roles from senior engineer to technical lead across CloudBees, Datameer and enterprise clients in finance and government. He contributes to notable open-source CI/CD tooling—improving Jenkins Pipeline YAML parsing and extending Jenkins X CLI features—to make deployment workflows more robust and configurable. Known for automating tedious operational tasks, he brings deep expertise in pipelines, ingress/preview environment automation, and configuration management. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex compliance and deployment constraints into repeatable, auditable processes. He balances pragmatic engineering with documentation and tests, ensuring changes survive at scale in production environments.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
command-line-interface10
tekton10
continuous-delivery10
cicd10
java10
javas10
go10
pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
yaml10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/pipeline-utility-steps-plugin
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Small, miscellaneous, cross platform utility steps for Jenkins Pipeline jobs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on modifying and improving the `ReadYamlStep` class, which is part of the Jenkins Pipeline Utility Steps plugin. Their work involved refactoring code related to the `maxAliasesForCollections` setting, introducing a hardcoded upper limit, and adding tests to ensure the correct behavior of the setting. Additionally, they addressed PR comments and improved documentation, specifically within the help.groovy file. This suggests a focus on enhancing the robustness and usability of the plugin's YAML parsing functionality.
jenkinsmiscellaneouspipelinejenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugin
jenkins-x/jx
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Cloud Native pipelines from Tekton
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 39 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the Jenkins X project by enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and deployment configurations. They added features to the `jx` command-line tool, such as the `--no-comment` flag for preview environments and a command to list pull request labels. Furthermore, they modified the `install` and `upgrade ingress` commands to include a URL template option. These changes indicate a focus on improving automation and customization capabilities related to application deployment and infrastructure management within the Jenkins X ecosystem.
tektonopenshiftrolloutcontinuous-integrationjenkins
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