Ian Absher Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer II

Braze

Aug 2022 - Current (3 years 10 months)

I work on the event streaming part of our product. We stream large amounts of data in Kafka to many different customer destinations. We have microservices that automatically manage these data streams for each of our customers.

Senior Software Engineer

Tripwire

Mar 2020 - Jul 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Create and maintain AWS-based microservices for management of and communication with agents that run on customers' systems. Responsibilities include creating architecture documents, authoring stories, writing code, and ongoing maintenance of services. - Joined a new product that was rebuilding a monolithic on-premises software for the cloud. Lots of learning and big changes to the way we made software. - Championed the creation of monitoring and observability for microservices that my team created, which helped catch outages early and made them easier to root cause when they did happen. Metrics collection also allowed us to answer questions about how our services were behaving. - Redesigned single-tenant messaging system to be multi-tenant

Software Developer In Test

Tripwire

Feb 2018 - May 2020 (2 years 4 months)

Created automated tests and developed features for Tripwires agent that monitors customers' assets. Developed and maintained our CI/CD pipeline and test infrastructure. - I modernized a disjointed build and CI system to give developers easier/quicker feedback on PRs. This stabilized the main code branch and improved the quality of the code. - Implemented resource management for VSphere instance that hosted testing jobs which stabilized our CI system. - Worked on a Hack Week project where we used machine learning to profile and cluster assets. This would enable a completely different way of filtering or managing assets in Tripwire products. Technologies: Ruby, C++, Python, Jenkins

Software Developer In Test

TEKTRONIX

Nov 2015 - Feb 2018 (2 years 4 months)

As a Software Quality Engineer at Tektronix, I advocate for a quality product that will meet all of our customers needs. The majority of my time is spent developing automated tests for oscilloscope software in Python. Here are some of the technologies that we use: Python, TCL, Agile, Git, Jira, Jenkins and Continuous Integration. - Develop and maintain Python based test frameworks. Created a new Python based test framework to supplemented the capabilities of the existing test frameworks. The transition to modernize from TCL to Python has improved its usability, maintainability and portability of our test frameworks. - Develop and maintain continuous integration system. Created scripts that help facilitate testing and automatic maintenance

Test and Evaluation Engineer

Boeing

Jun 2013 - Nov 2015 (2 years 6 months)

I developed automated tests for spacecraft communication systems using a proprietary testing hardware and software. This work involved parsing of customer contracts, creating tests, review of test results and packaging of the data for the customer. * Created a Python program to automatically generate tests scripts. This program modeled the spacecraft communication paths, parsed testing requirements and took into consideration constraints like path collisions and temperature. Automatically generating these scripts drastically reduced the amount of rework due to changing requirements. * Wrote a Machine Learning program that would automatically verify test results based on a database of previously analyzed test data. I was able to get a pro

Manufacturing Engineer

Boeing

Apr 2012 - Jun 2013 (1 year 3 months)

I worked on a team that solved emergent electrical design problems that arose during the manufacture of the 787. This work involved creating manufacturing plans to resolve the issue and revising the design so that the problem would not show up again.

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