Vote for a Jenkins community supporter to the Governance Board

As a consultant, I support my customers with their Jenkins issues since the beginning of 2017. And almost from the start, it was some kind of "as code" approach. The experience I gained during that time resulted in getting myself involved in the development of Configuration as Code Plugin for Jenkins. I consider becoming a part of Jenkins Community one of the most valuable experiences in my career so far. I appreciate how much I have learned and how welcoming the community is.

I am not a very active contributor these days, at least when it comes to code, but what I have to offer is rather extensive experience with Jenkins end-users - from small, single instance setups to environments with hundreds of controllers run in a different way on different operating systems. Every day I see the challenges of those users, I know what issues they are facing and which features they consider valuable or missing. As a Jenkins Governance Board Member, I can represent those users.

Thanks to my involvement in Configuration as Code Plugin development I had a chance to deliver a number of public presentations where I focused on the benefits of the solution and tried to make it easier for newcomers to try it. Here are a few examples of my activities related to Jenkins Configuration as Code: blogpost, cdCON presentation, podcast recording. So my focus is not only on representing users but also on educating them, and educating myself, so I actually know what they need and why.