Steve Gibson

5.0

(50 reviews)

US$25.00

For every 15 mins

116

Sessions/Jobs

ABOUT ME

Software Development Coach

Generalist Software Developer and Software Development Coach. I think testing is very important; a tight development process is key; and that reviewing your requirements regularly for completeness, consistency and accuracy will minimize the cost of "surprises". I like to know the big picture, am detail oriented and love the challenge of jumping into projects where I know little or nothing about the problem domain or technology stack. I believe in learning something new every day and that process improvement is all about being intentional with your time and effort.

I find mentoring others to be very rewarding, especially when the mentee finds that "ah-ha" moment and is able to move on under their own steam. I tend to seek out projects where I can dive in first and discover what is needed to bring the rest of the team up-to-speed.

I also love experimenting with new languages - some of the more recent examples are Rust, elixir and clojure. It's refreshing to see the newer languages are "batteries-included" in terms of build tools, test tools and dependency management.

English

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)

Joined January 2017

EXPERTISE

Java

10 years experience | 6 endorsements

I have been programming in Java since the mid-1990's. I have developed server applications on Unix, Linux and Windows. I have written and...

I have been programming in Java since the mid-1990's. I have developed server applications on Unix, Linux and Windows. I have written and maintained Applets, JSP/JSTL, J2EE. Stand alone applications, Spring Boot applications and hosted under Tomcat and/or JBoss. Mostly enterprise software. I have even maintained an embedded project with Java on Linux.

RESTful API Apache tomcat Web Service SOAP Jstl JSP JBoss Spring Java EE

SQL

10 years experience | 5 endorsements

Took an Oracle administration course back in the day and learned about backups, etc. Later worked as a software develop writing enterpris...

Took an Oracle administration course back in the day and learned about backups, etc. Later worked as a software develop writing enterprise software against a fairly complicated Oracle RAC database. During that time I rewrote their ETL system, learning PL/SQL at the same time. Dealt with optimizing both OLTP and OLAP queries and optimizing the ETL operations also. Worked with SQL Server, MySql and PostgreSQL for various projects also.

Oracle PL/SQL Microsoft SQL Server SQL

Oracle PL/SQL Microsoft SQL Server SQL Oracle Database MySQL PostgreSQL SchemaOptimization

Python

4 years experience | 8 endorsements

Mostly used as a tool language, though works great with tools like Fabric, Ansible and Salt Stack.

Python

XSLT

4 years experience | 1 endorsement

At one of my previous jobs, I wrote a pretty complicated set of XSLT sheets that allowed templates to be used to render Credit Union stat...

At one of my previous jobs, I wrote a pretty complicated set of XSLT sheets that allowed templates to be used to render Credit Union statements off some data processed directly from the payment processor. Learning that XSLT is a functional language, how to write optimal (speed and memory use) XSLT and how to debug XSLT was all very important. Later encounters with XSLT were much simpler, and I have been glad to have gained that earlier experience.

XPathOptimizationXML

JavaScript

20 years experience | 2 endorsements

I have been using javascript on and off for most of my career, so I am familiar with how far it has come since it was first introduced. ...

I have been using javascript on and off for most of my career, so I am familiar with how far it has come since it was first introduced. Most of my experience has been with straight JavaScript. I have done some Object-Oriented JavaScript when maintaining an application that interfaced with Google Maps (not necessarily the best way to use plain JavaScript). Have about a year of experience with jQuery, the same with Angular and Node.js. Used a few other frameworks, including Aurelia with some TypeScript and ES6.

Knockout Es6 jQuery

Knockout Es6 jQuery Node.js AJAX Angular JavaScript Rhino TypeScript Aurelia

Jenkins

5 years experience

Have worked with CI/CD on a number of teams, and not just with Jenkins, including integrating with JIRA, BitBucket, SonarQube, Maven, Gra...

Have worked with CI/CD on a number of teams, and not just with Jenkins, including integrating with JIRA, BitBucket, SonarQube, Maven, Gradle, MSBuild, Cake, npm, Artifactory, etc. More Jenkins Pipeline work than the XML Jenkinsfile. I can help you move towards best practice and maintainability. Jenkins pipelines (Jenkins 2.x and 1.x) building Java and .Net. Wrestled with Templates (CloudBees). Been exploring all the ins and outs of using Groovy-in-jenkins...including dealing with the sandbox, writing closures to extend the DSL, shared libraries, etc. Multi-Branch plugin. Integrated with BitBucket, SonarQube and Artifactory.

Angular

3 years experience | 1 endorsement

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(50 reviews)

Lindsay Poisson

November 2023

Very patient developer that explains things clearly, highly recommended

Robert Ciaverella

November 2023

the best

Robert Ciaverella

October 2023

Awesome to work with.

Paul Wroe

October 2023

Great communication and understanding of my SQL issues, helped me formulize a plan to go forward, helpful insight into ideas I hadn't thought of, would definitely recommend!

Mahesh H

September 2018

Great Session... Highly skilled mentor

Marty Jolly

December 2017

Steve is great! He quickly took me from continuous integration newb to a practitioner. I now can understand and manage my git, github, and travis environment. It is awesome to have access to a great mentor like Steve.

Sumoz

November 2017

Steve is great.

Sumoz

November 2017

Steve knows stuff. Thanks Steve, you are a legend.

Coderr

October 2017

Great Coder! Thanks.

October 2017

Solved the various application.properties dev/prod switching

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

raspberry_pi_camp

Code for Raspberry Pi Camp 2015

Python

giblet75.github.io

My github

EMPLOYMENTS

Senior Software Engineer

Launch CG / Carnival Cruise Lines

2020-11-01-2023-09-01

Within Carnival Cruise Lines, our team works on the Safety systems (managing safety drills, In-Port Manning assignments, tracking safe...

Within Carnival Cruise Lines, our team works on the Safety systems (managing safety drills, In-Port Manning assignments, tracking safety training video views, emergency card assignments, survival craft assignments, security photos), maintaining a few other key systems (Crew Call Chat, Wayfinding), maintaining some crew-facing mobile apps (for boarding, safety station check-in, ID Card Printing, etc) and displays onboard ships.

My responsibilities include implementing new features for the back-end systems (particularly in safety), troubleshooting issues and assisting other team members with back-end issues, maintenance on back-end systems to handle infrastructure changes/upgrades, defining new indexes for couchbase, maintenance of the ansible playbooks pertaining to our systems, and designing and implementing new features and services for Safety.

The back-end systems are written in Java (mostly spring boot), run in a kubernetes environment running on board in each ship’s data center, utilize Couchbase for persistence and Kafka for event management.

Java

Couchbase

Spring Boot

Java

Couchbase

Spring Boot

Apache Kafka

Kubernetes