Edwin Castro Email & Phone Number

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Hillsboro, Or

Responsibilities* Design, develop, test, and maintain Windows/Linux/MacOSX product installers.* Go-to expert for product installers across McAfee enterprise portfolio.* Triage and troubleshoot customer escalations as well as internal bugs mostly related to Windows installer and install-time interactions with our proprietary protection schemes.* Git and Subversion code repository maintainer.* Primary application build engineer for products written in C/C++, Java, and Python.* Manage and maintain Ant build scripts and TeamCity build and test automation projects.* Lead developer and architect on Python-based test automation framework.Accomplishments* Converted various Subversion repositories to Git including complete history.* Redesigned and reimplemented McAfee Data Exchange Layer installer architecture to ensure proprietary protection schemes will succeed in the face of DLL injection.* Managed source control branches and merges in Subversion and Git between release and feature branches.* Identified and fixed custom, in-house deployment and test automation framework in Python to improve reliability and repeatability.* Built and managed various test environments in VMWare for use by our test automation framework.* Fixed bugs in existing C/C++ custom actions for McAfee Data Exchange Layer MSI installer using WiX.* Implemented tool to recache MSI as part of WiX burn bootstrapper to deliver fixed MSI installers to ensure upgrades worked correctly.* Implemented single installer WiX setup project compiled as 32-bit or 64-bit to remove duplication from previous separate 32-bit and 64-bit setup projects.

Portland, Or

* Designed and implemented continuous integration and deployment pipeline for Java-based middleware using Jenkins, Ant, Ivy, and Artifactory.* Designed and implemented deployment pipeline for MySQL artifacts using Ant, Subversion, and Liquibase.* Maintained environment control Bash scripts for starting, stopping, and restarting middleware services.* Designed and implemented Subversion branching strategy to support parallel feature development and multiple release maintenance.

Hillsboro, Or

* Implemented PowerShell-based installer to automate the installation of the Corillian Online Licensed product suite decreasing system deployment from approximately a week to about an hour.* Implemented WiX-based installers for web services deployed as part of the Corillian Online Licensed product suite.* Maintained MSBuild scripts for the Corillian Online Licensed build system.* Managed Subversion task branches merging code changes from task branches to release branches.

Bellevue, Wa

* Developed unified build process to be used by the entire BGCOE organization using MSBuild.* Maintained MSBuild scripts for pilot projects.* Maintained WiX templates for pilot projects.* Developed a custom MSBuild task in C# to submit DLLs, EXEs, and MSIs to an internal Microsoft code signing service.

Seattle, Wa

* Customized and deployed work item types, reports and process templates for Team Foundation Server.* Developed continuous integration processes using CruiseControl.NET, MSBuild and Team Build.* Developed deployment architecture and scripts using PowerShell.* Setup machines for pre-production environments.

Redmond, Wa

* Installed and executed automated tests against printing subsystem for Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server.* Redesigned and implemented print UI automation tests in C#.* Maintained and implemented new features for in-house test automation tool written in C++.* Debugged kernel debugger breaks, reported bugs, verified bug fixes.

Corvallis, Or

* Implemented C++ (CxxTest) and Java (JUnit) acceptance tests for Hydra BPEL engine and Hydra SDO XML component.* Generated HTML and email reports for automated nightly build and testing results using Python and XSLT.* Maintained Make, Ant, Windows batch and Unix shell build scripts and implemented Ant extensions in Java.* Managed user branches in Perforce for integrating outsourced tests into automated test system.Created, tracked, verified bugs using Bugzilla.* Performed image testing of releases to guarantee shipped systems contained all necessary components. Tested on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Visual C++ 7.1, Visual C++ 8.0, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and two versions of GCC.* Participated in scrums as a QA representative.

Corvallis, Or

* Test-drove development of C# data source plug-in library.* Implemented C# (NUnit) regression tests for ATL COM components.* Automated integration build and regression testing process with CruiseControl.NET, NAnt and Visual Studio .NET 2003.* Automated source code checkout from Visual SourceSafe for automated builds and used both Visual SourceSafe and SourceOffsite to maintain source revision history.* Participated in process documentation for ISO 9000.