Hung out my shingle and started to build my own software.

• Built software and various things needed as a microISV and Contractor.
  • tCMS2: a CMS focused on disintermediation from aggregators
  • CPAN Module: Playwright
  • Built a Youtube Channel, and mirrored it on troglodyne.net
  • Contracted with various independent webmasters, and a few perl shops (booking.com among them).

Resumed working at cPanel. Senior QA until 2018 then moved on to development.

• Wrote dozens of perl testing libraries and hundreds of automated structural and acceptance tests.
• Built a continuous integration platform for doing selenium/ssh based acceptance testing that orchestrates thousands of VMs.
• Perl development had a number of succesful projects:
  • Force HTTPS Redirects in cPanel's Domains interface.
  • DNS Clustering interface refresh.
  • PowerDNS Integration
  • Backup transport history database and interfaces.

I acquired quite the reputation for optimizing perl and understanding SQL query performance. I fixed more bugs than I can remember in my time at cPanel.

Supervisor(s):
Alex Tierney (alex.tierney@cpanel.net)
Chad Shanehchian (c.shanehchian@cpanel.net)
Stacy Wyatt (stacy.wyatt@cpanel.net)

Worked on practically all of the codebase of an existing 1 year old startup. Mostly PHP and Perl. Primary developer of the OneSite and StormTrace products. Gained experience deploying applications using Amazon AWS, Linode, Heroku and other cloud service providers. Managed to "wear all the hats" required of a startup developer.

In particular I am proud of mastering postgres well enough to optimize queries on many terabytes of geospatial data from returning in 30 minutes to under 30 seconds.

Supervisor: Cody Mahan (cmahan@hailstrike.com)

Performed standard Manual testing on web software:

• Wrote test cases, wrote test plans, logged bugs
• Performed special investigations into customer issues

Wrote testing automation software and automated tests:

• Set up VM and physical systems which were then used in distributed automated testing
• Wrote software to coordinate said distributed automated testing
• Wrote automation libraries and web software to view, track and manage automated/manual testing and metrics.

Supervisor: Owen Ford (owen@cpanel.net)

Performed standard Manual testing on embedded software, handheld hardware, desktop and web-based software for the first 2 years.

• Wrote test cases, wrote test plans, logged bugs
• Performed special investigations into customer issues

In the third and fourth years, I moved into automated testing of all the previous, and did software security testing as well.

• Set up VM and physical systems which were then used in distributed automated testing
• Wrote software to coordinate said distributed automated testing
• Wrote automation libraries and the tests that used them for embedded devices, desktop and web software

Through my SQA relationship with development, I eventually became involved in development. I ported C/C++ software to linux and wrote and modified various java desktop and server-based applications.
Supervisor: Jim Galu (j-galu2@ti.com)