Daniel Spilker
Software Engineer at BDE Software Services GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolDaniel Spilker is a seasoned software engineer and architect based in Hamburg with 17 years of professional experience building Java web and enterprise systems since 1999 and Python/Django applications since 2008. He specializes in content management and digital rights management, having driven architecture and engineering at CoreMedia and now at BDE Software Services. A pragmatic backend and DevOps contributor to high-profile open-source projects like Jenkins and Job DSL, he focuses on synchronization, build optimization, and plugin extensibility to improve stability and automation. Known for bridging long-lived Java platforms with modern automation practices, he brings deep hands-on expertise in build/test infrastructure and pragmatic refactoring to keep complex systems maintainable.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. Computer Science Engineering, Dipl.-Ing. Computer Science Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology
German, English
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Github Skills (20)
continuous-integration10
groovy10
java10
cicd10
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
devops10
testing9
gradle9
automation9
jenkins-pipeline9
gradlew9
automations9
powershell6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin
Feb 2013 - Jul 2020
A Groovy DSL for Jenkins Jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2222 commits, 1206 PRs, 940 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel implemented and refined features for the Build Flow plugin, specifically adding support for the `dslFile` option in the Build Flow plugin and the regular expression option for the Task Scanner plugin. Their contributions involved modifying various Groovy files related to job configuration, testing, and documentation of the DSL used for Jenkins jobs. They also added support for features related to the Dashboard View plugin.
dslgroovyjenkins-jobsjenkins
sheehan/job-dsl-gradle-example
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
An example Job DSL project that uses Gradle for building and testing.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:43 commits, 41 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on improving the project's build and testing infrastructure. They updated the Job DSL core version, refactored job scripts for IDE support and used memory management for testing. Furthermore, the user worked on example configurations, integrating the Jenkins test harness and demonstrating the use of DSL extensions for other plugins. These changes improved the project's testability and demonstrated how to automate Jenkins job creation.
dslgradletestingjenkinsgroovy
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