bower install error on running jenkins/build_image.sh

When running jenkins/build_image.sh, we see this error coming up:
ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-cli-shims.git", exit code of #128 that keeps the static files from being built:
cp dist/assets/dr-elephant.css /dr-elephant/public/assets/ember/
cp: cannot stat 'dist/assets/dr-elephant.css': No such file or directory

• cp dist/assets/dr-elephant.js /dr-elephant/public/assets/ember/
  cp: cannot stat 'dist/assets/dr-elephant.js': No such file or directory
• cp dist/assets/vendor.js /dr-elephant/public/assets/ember/
  cp: cannot stat 'dist/assets/vendor.js': No such file or directory
• cp dist/assets/vendor.css /dr-elephant/public/assets/ember/
  cp: cannot stat 'dist/assets/vendor.css': No such file or directory
• cp -r dist/fonts /dr-elephant/public/assets/
  cp: cannot stat 'dist/fonts': No such file or directory

this error can be fixed manually by calling
sudo npm install -g bower
cd web; bower install; cd ..
and adding SSL disabling configuration to web/.bowerrc file before running the script. but if I put this web/.bowerrc file into the directory before running the script and hoping for the compile.sh to pick it up. it doesn't work.
{
"directory": "bower_components",
"registry": "https://registry.bower.io/",
"strict-ssl": false
}

does anyone know what's wrong and how I can fix the issue here? https://github.com/linkedin/dr-elephant/blob/916c25d5845f534ec2648fe17d978cd48a8bd284/compile.sh#L374

Start with jenkins/build_image.sh and compile.sh around line 374, then inspect web/.bowerrc and the Bower step that runs before static files are copied. Run the build to reproduce the git ls-remote failure and verify that the build completes with dist/assets and dist/fonts present.