I’m not entirely sure what my purpose of this blog is, but this seems like an interesting exercise. So, how about some background? I’m a release engineer at a software company in the Atlanta area. Currently, my duties include the following:

• Managing our JIRA instance
• Determining our migration path from TFS to GIT for source code management.
• Determining our migration path from TFS to Bamboo for builds. In time, this will grow into full blown CI.

Looking at the list, it doesn’t seem like much, but I’m swamped a lot of the time and completely in over my head. I’ve never really dealt with SCM before outside of using git for personal projects. Also, JIRA is new to me too. With that being said, I love this. Previously I was a PM handling black sleep projects that no one else wanted to deal with. I didn’t enjoy that and requested a move. Luckily, I work for a great company and they were super accommodating and allowed me to jump into something completely new.

I guess the point of this is chronicling my experiences as a release engineer and any goodies/tidbits I come across along the way.