William Brockhus
Solution Architect DevOps Engineer (Specialist) at 8Squad
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Brockhus is a Solution Architect and DevOps specialist based in Melbourne with 15 years of experience designing and delivering CI/CD-driven platforms that turn manual deployment pain into repeatable pipelines. Currently leading architecture and DevOps at 8Squad, he blends deep Salesforce development experience with infrastructure automation to accelerate delivery for complex enterprise customers. His background spans embedded software and naval information management, giving him a pragmatic systems mindset and an aptitude for policy, security and operational resilience. An active contributor to the PMD static analysis project, he has improved Apex code analysis and helped reduce security false positives—demonstrating an eye for code quality beyond typical DevOps work. William’s hands-on history as an ethical hacker and former Royal Australian Navy officer highlights a disciplined, security-minded approach to engineering and stakeholder communication. He’s known for translating messy legacy processes into single, reliable pipelines that save teams time and risk.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of New South Wales
English
Github Skills (8)
linter10
javas10
static-code-analysis10
code-analysis10
apex10
pmd10
java10
test-automation9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
pmd/pmd
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to improving code quality and functionality within the PMD project, focusing on the Apex language analyzer. Their commits included adding and modifying features related to test method identification using annotations and modifiers, as well as refactoring and bug fixes within the Apex code analysis rules. They also addressed issues such as false positives in security rules.
lintercode-analyzercode-qualityresharperstatic-code-analyzer
YodaDaCoda/pmd
May 2021 - Mar 2025
An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
static-analyzerlintercode-analyzerstatic-code-analysiscode-quality
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