Tim Jacomb
Solution Architect at Kainos
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTim Jacomb is a Solution Architect and former Lead Engineer with nine years’ experience helping teams deliver higher-quality software faster and safer at Kainos. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—particularly around Jenkins, Docker, and Terraform—with a passion for test automation and configuration-as-code to improve CI/CD and deployment reliability. A prolific open-source contributor, Tim has made notable fixes and enhancements across the Jenkins ecosystem (plugins, agents, infra) and added autoscale support to HashiCorp’s Azure Terraform provider. He’s known for pragmatic refactors that improve maintainability and security (for example tightening role-strategy permissions and proxy/JCasC compatibility) and for mentoring peers to raise team capability. Based in Greater Brighton, he combines practical engineering craft with strong operational thinking to turn complex infrastructure needs into auditable, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science Information Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science Information Science at University of OtagoRangiora High School
English
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Github Skills (82)
dependency-management10
authorizations10
website-development10
github10
testing10
plugin-development10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
security10
javas10
automation10
junit10
dns10
build-automation10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin
Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
Jenkins Configuration as Code Plugin
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:299 reviews, 115 commits, 635 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily worked on refactoring and enhancing the Jenkins Configuration as Code plugin. Their contributions focused on moving and removing plugin management configurations to streamline the Jenkins node setup. These changes involved modifications to core configuration files and test cases, indicating an effort to improve the plugin's maintainability and performance. Furthermore, the user added test coverage for proxy configurations and implemented features related to view configurations.
configuration-as-codejenkinsjenkins-configurationjcasc
jenkinsci/plugin-installation-manager-tool
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
Plugin Manager CLI tool for Jenkins
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 158 reviews, 137 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the backend logic and configuration aspects of the plugin installation manager tool. Their work includes fixing update center URLs, refactoring configuration classes, and addressing version handling issues within the CLI tool and supporting libraries. They also added proxy compatibility and caching mechanisms to enhance the tool's functionality and performance. Finally, the user worked on improving the tool's compatibility with updates.
clijenkinsplugin-manager
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