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Quentin Crain

Consummate Generalist  |  Developer Educator  |  Developer Advocate

    Nehalem, OR 97131  |  crain.quentin@gmail.com  |  (503) 310-1118  |  github.com/czrpb/

    CIS, B.S.  University of Oregon

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.

Professional Experience

Developer Advocate (Sr Lead Software Engineer)  |  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

Senior Solutions & QA Lead Engineer  |  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

Senior Software Engineer  |  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

Additional

  • 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