Nehalem, OR 97131 | crain.quentin@gmail.com | (503) 310-1118 | github.com/czrpb/
CIS, B.S. University of Oregon
Developer Educator | Developer Advocate | SW Developer
Senior Lead Software Engineer with extensive experience at shepherding teams’ development of complex systems deployed to and running in production for over a decade. I focus on methodological rigor, developmental correctness, and implementation depth.
Intel Corp, Hillsboro, OR 2019 – Present
Grew the culture of SW professionalism in an organization of 300+ with 15+ documented SW best practices in half a year thru the formation of an Engineering Practices team of 5
Cultivated a culture of active caring, including Respect, Openness, Honesty, evidenced by impactful bottom-up influence thru (a) direct engineer “listening” sessions, (b) quarterly hacker weeks, and (c) facilitating trustful failure analysis reviews by building a 6-person Engineer Advocate team
Influenced business decisions by enabling timely bi-quarterly releases of a telemetry tool to 10+ million systems as both PO and QA lead
Innovation: Observational Test System (OTiS)
Technologies: Python, Elixir
Focuses: Mentoring & Team Culture
Saffron Corp (Intel), Cary, NC 2016 – 2019
Led QA to initiate Saffron’s memory base (SMB) test coverage by creating 50+ API test cases as hierarchical Cucumber test suites
As a participant in a data science team, created actionable analytics and presented to Navy Admiral level staff using Saffron’s connectionist learning graph application thru (a) data cleansing, (b) statistical characterization, and (c) network visualizations
Innovation: Network viz w/ NetworkX
Technologies: Python/Jupyter NB, Javascript
Focuses: Connectionist AI
Intel Corp, Hillsboro, OR Past – 2016
As a Framework Architect: Enabled scalable device testing to teams internal and external to Intel as the key validation SW component of the organization’s HW/SW product with the creation of a distributed microservice validation execution system (TWS)
As an Automation Lead: Enabled scheduled and ad-hoc build and test infrastructure thru the design, deployment and maintenance of CI for a team of 100+ SW engineers developing a digital home device (Diner)
As a SW Engineer: Continually focused on adding value to SW teams’ environment, infrastructure, and QA through automation
Innovation: Metaphoric Design
Technologies: SOA/REST, Python, HTML/JS, Sqlite3
Focuses: Linked & Semantic Data
Volunteer participant in the development of materials for DockYard Academy teaching Elixir
Programming mentoring with pre-CS teens
Beyond tech, extensive personal study into philosophy, sociology, and human factors