Will Refvem
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Refvem is a Kubernetes-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and operators across startups and enterprise environments. He has deep hands-on expertise in Go, DevOps, and Azure/Azure DevOps, having implemented secure identity integrations, production-grade SaaS platform tooling, and ML-aware Kubernetes agents. Will contributed notable backend and Bitbucket integration work to Jenkins X (a prominent CI/CD project for Kubernetes), improving PR status handling, webhooks, and API mocks. His background spans fintech wire-transfer microservices, healthcare-grade Kubernetes operators, and municipal web platforms—showing a pragmatic blend of architectural thinking and day-to-day coding. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs strong open-source collaboration with a pragmatic security mindset and a dry technical wit that shows up in his GitHub bio.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming Certificate Computer Science, Computer Programming Certificate Computer Science at NCSUBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Classical Languages, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Classical Languages at Calvin University
Latin, Greek, Chinese, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (9)
bitbucket-api10
go10
cicd9
devops9
testing9
git9
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
tekton5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jenkins-x/jx
Mar 2018 - Oct 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:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:98 commits, 52 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Will's contributions center around enhancing the Bitbucket GitProvider implementation for the Jenkins X project. They refactored the code for greater efficiency and added features, notably adding the ability to add and update PR comment statuses. The user also created and tested the API mocking functionality. In addition, they implemented methods related to creating and managing webhooks.
tektonopenshiftrolloutcontinuous-integrationjenkins
wbrefvem/jx
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
A command line tool for installing and working with Jenkins X
Contributions:275 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 8 months
jenkinscommand-line-tooljenkins-plugininstallingjenkins-x
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