Tenacious, problem-solving Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead with 20+ years of experience providing production-ready software for customers and a strong desire to extend his process automation expertise or move into software development..Proficient at producing deliverables for testing, releasing market-quality software, performing branch and merge operations, and creating and maintaining tools to automate development and release processes. Proven record of enabling efficient, standardized processes saving time and labor while reducing errors.Equally capable at working individually, in team settings, and remotely.Industry Knowledge Skills: Software Engineering | Improving Developer Tools & Productivity | Streamlining Processes | Focused Problem Solving | Scripting | Programming | Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) | Computer Science | Test-driven Development | Debugging | Code Review | Written Communication | Release Engineering | Merge Automation | Build Automation | Test Automation | Version Control | Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) | Reducing Errors | Standardizing Best Practices | Cost Savings | Improving System Configurations | System Migrations| Web Services | Back-End Web Development | Creating Production-ready Builds & Releases | DevOpsTool and Technology Skills:• Various operating systems (most recently Linux) and programming languages (from assemblers through third- and fourth-generation languages; working knowledge of C)• bash, csh, ECMAScript (ES6), JavaScript, jQuery, ksh, Node.js, Perl, Python (2.x & 3.x), sh, and tcsh• Node.js, Perl, and Python debuggers; some work with Async I/O; some testing with Mocha and Chai• CSS, CGI, Express.js, HTML, REST, and Web Service programming; Apache Web Servers• JSON, RegEx, YAML and basic XML• Jenkins automation server and Loki log data gathering via PromTail• Database work using Oracle/SQL, MySQL, Neo4j/Cypher, and Cassandra/CQL• ClearCase, CVS, Git, and RCS source code management systems• Cisco ACME (Acme Component Management Environment) source code management system• UNIX Make and GNU Make dependency-tracking build utilities• CDETS (Cisco Defect & Enhancement Tracking System) and Jira (Issue & Project Tracking Software)• MicroSoft Windows, Excel (plus VBS customization), Word, Powerpoint, cmd