Wouter Admiraal
Software Engineering Manager at Sonar
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolWouter Admiraal is a software engineering manager based in Geneva with 7 years of professional experience building delightful, user-focused web interfaces and robust backend systems. He rose through hands-on frontend roles at Sonar—where he contributed to SonarQube and its Jenkins scanner, improving analysis features and CI/CD testing—to lead the SonarQube engineering team since 2023. A front-end specialist at heart, he pairs deep CSS/HTML craftsmanship and a "less is more" UX philosophy with practical DevOps and system administration expertise (LPIC-1 certified). He has a long history in Drupal development, maintains community modules, and has implemented CI/CD pipelines for bespoke applications. Comfortable spanning front-end, back-end and infrastructure, he brings a designer’s eye from formal multimedia training to pragmatic delivery in production systems. Colleagues rely on him for clean UIs, dependable migrations, and steady improvements to testing and build stability in large open-source projects.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Concepteur en Multimédia, Design, Graphisme, Programmation, Marketing, Storyboarding, Motion graphics, Concepteur en Multimédia, Design, Graphisme, Programmation, Marketing, Storyboarding, Motion graphics at ERACOM: Ecole Romande d'Arts et CommunicationAnnée préparatoire en Arts Visuels, Dessin, Illustration, Graphisme, Typographie, Histoire de l'art, Année préparatoire en Arts Visuels, Dessin, Illustration, Graphisme, Typographie, Histoire de l'art at Ceruleum Ecole d'Arts Visuels
French, Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (19)
back-end-development10
bash10
cicd10
bash-shell10
script10
jenkins-plugin10
maven10
sh10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
shell10
backend10
test-automation10
msbuild9
javas8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
SonarSource/sonarqube
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Continuous Inspection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 689 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wouter primarily contributed to improving the project's functionality by implementing new features, updating the measure's page, and addressing issues in the code related to quality profiles. They added functionality to the project analysis and made updates to ensure proper project migration while also addressing several other code smells in the process. The user made key contributions to the overall project structure, including the addition of a new filter.
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SonarSource/sonar-scanner-jenkins
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
SonarQube Scanner for Jenkins
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 20 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Wouter's primary contributions focus on improving the CI/CD pipeline and enhancing the testing infrastructure of the Jenkins plugin. They refactored the QA process, migrating from Travis CI to Cirrus CI. The user also addressed build and test failures, pinned versions of Jenkins and related plugins for stability, and implemented code coverage improvements. Additionally, the user addressed issues with the Scanner for MSBuild setup within the integration tests.
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