Valentina Armenise
Senior Software Engineer at Volvo Cars
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolValentina Armenise is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems and developer tooling across major tech and automotive companies. Currently at Volvo Cars after a multi-year tenure at Spotify, she brings deep expertise in backend architecture, reliability, and DevOps practices. Her open-source contributions to the flagship Jenkins project include security-focused XML transformations, queue optimization for flyweight tasks, and robustness fixes—work that directly improves CI/CD reliability for thousands of users. Trained at KTH and Politecnico di Torino, she combines rigorous engineering foundations with practical production experience and a knack for turning subtle concurrency and scheduling issues into stable, test-covered solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (16)
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
devops10
cicd10
java10
testing9
xml9
groovy8
continuous-integration8
continuous-delivery8
data-pipeline7
build-pipelines7
pipe7
security7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/jenkins
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Jenkins automation server
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:44 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Valentina primarily contributed to the Jenkins core, addressing security vulnerabilities and improving the system's reliability. Their work involved safe XML transformations to prevent security risks, optimizing the queue management system to handle flyweight tasks efficiently, and fixing issues related to build scheduling and node provisioning. Furthermore, the user demonstrated skills in test case creation and enhancement, ensuring the stability and functionality of Jenkins.
continuous-deploymentjenkinscontinuous-testinggroovydevops
varmenise/jenkins
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:71 pushes, 18 branches, 16 tags in 1 year 7 months
jenkinsintegration-serverjenkins-plugincontinuouscontinuous-integration
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