Blaine Motsinger Email: blaine@renderorange.com Tel: 1-832-763-4405 ================================================================================ **Well rounded software developer** with background in quality assurance, system administration, and technical support. Heavy emphasis on automated testing. People person. Works best in enviroments with high expectation of integrity and autonomy. SKILLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Web Development: Frontend Backend System Adminstration - Programming Languages: Perl Javascript Golang PHP HTML CSS - Database: MySQL SQLite - Virtualization and Containers: AWS EC2 S3 Vagrant - Project Management: Agile Scrum JIRA Request Tracker - System Administration: Linux CentOS Debian Apache Exim PHP MySQL DNS cPanel Bash systemd crontab - Testing: Selenium Unit Testing Integration Testing Functional Testing Automated Testing Regression Testing TravisCI EMPLOYMENT --------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Engineer, Best Practical Solutions (2019-02 — Present) Multi discipline software development for popular open source web application on a small distributed team. - Providing customer sponsored feature and custom solutions development, direct support, and maintenance development for 20 year old codebase. - Full stack development; frontend, backend, and systems administration. - High level of quality and scope of responsibility; direct client interaction working with specs, review and QA for other developers, heavy reliance on automated testing and CICD for quality assurance. Perl Developer II, cPanel (2016-11 — 2019-02) Mid-level software developer for internal systems. - Full lifecycle development of in-house software for billing, licensing, customer portal, and APIs, supporting cPanel's enterprise partner accounts. - Resurrected, rewrote, and reintroduced the departmental linter for the internal development teams workflow. Quality Assurance Analyst, cPanel (2014-11 — 2016-11) Bug finder and advocate for quality in an agile (scrum) environment. - Wrote, ran, and maintained automated tests and test plans for team responsible features in enterprise level software (cPanel/WHM). Technical Analyst II / Migration Specialist, cPanel (2012-04 — 2014-11) Technical support and migrations for enterprise partner's cPanel servers. - Planned and migrated hundreds of hosting servers from other control panels to cPanel/WHM. - Wrote and maintained departmental scripts to assist in troubleshooting common issues. - Contributed to internal documentation and troubleshooting guides to aid other technicians. Technical Product Specialist, cPanel (2011-04 — 2012-04) Technical sales, training, enterprise partner customer relationships, and representing cPanel at conferences in the US and abroad. Web Developer, Render Orange, LLC (2009-11 — 2013-10) Owned and operated, full service web development company. - Grew part-time client development and hosting work during college into a steady full-time customer base. - Formed and maintained relationships with other contract designers and marketing professionals for projects. EDUCATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- North Iowa Area Community College (2005-08 — 2007-12) Focus of study on system administration, networking, and project management. University of Northern Iowa (2010-07 — 2011-04) Focus of study on graphic design and visual art. Studied summer session and 2 semesters then accepted job at cPanel.