Blaine Motsinger
Email: blaine@renderorange.com
Tel: 1-832-763-4405

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**Well rounded software developer** with background in quality assurance, system administration, and technical support. Heavy emphasis on automated testing. People person. Works best in environments 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.