Brett Porter is an open source software developer from Sydney, Australia with a passion for development tooling, and automation. Seeking a more standardized and reproducible solution to organize, build and deploy a number of software projects across teams, he discovered an early beta of Maven 1.0 in 2003, and has been heavily involved in the development of the project since.
He is a member of the Apache Maven Project Management Committee, and has conducted presentations and training on Maven and related tooling at several conferences and events. He founded the Archiva project in 2005, and now serves on several Apache project management committees.
He is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has served on the Board of Directors from 2009 until the present.
Brett is the co-author of Apache Maven 2: Effective Implementation, written in 2009. He was also the co-author of the book Better Builds with Maven, the first book to be written about the Maven 2.0 release in 2005, and has been involved in reviewing Maven: A Developer’s Notebook and Java Power Tools.
Brett is currently VP, Product Development at G2iX, in charge of the MaestroDev division, which offers support and services for development and automation tools including Apache Maven, Apache Continuum, Apache Archiva and Selenium.
He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics and a Bachelor of Computer Science, from University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
4 responses so far ↓
James Cheetham // July 16, 2009 at 11:12 am |
Is this the Brett Porter who attended Wollongong University from 1997?
Brett // July 16, 2009 at 1:42 pm |
that’s me!
Brian Bonner // September 21, 2009 at 7:09 pm |
Just saw your header image. That’s sleeping bear dunes (scenic drive), right? We vacation up there every year for past 3 years. I’m an avid maven user in Cincinnati, OH.
Brett // September 22, 2009 at 9:10 pm |
sure is – took that photo in the howling wind getting lashed by sand – the contrast between that and how it looks is amazing. I also like the photo for the morbid humour of the sign and the beauty of the lake, and how it seamlessly blends in.