Ross ⌨️ Nelson Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, Us

Confiiguration Management - Designed and programed SaltStack states, runners, and modules and utilized jinja to manage configurations in Quality Assurance(QA), Automation, User Acceptance(UA), Performance, Disaster Relief, and Production environments. Maintained and organized a tiered salt pillar structure as well.Continuous Integration - Programmed and maintained Jenkins jobs, primarily using salt states, to execute test or other commands on a schedule, or to create ease of execution, visibility, and auditing.Release Engineering - Prepared new development builds for release by creating internal release notes, and facilitating QA and UA testing by updating python scripts and salt states used in each environment as well as promoting necessary packages to respective package servers. Responsibilities also included being available during release windows to execute any salt commands if necessary, to monitor deployments, and to provide expertise in the event of a problem.Virtual Machine Management - Used Oracle Cloud to build and mantain Oracle Linux machines.Quality Assurance Development - Wrote and maintaned python scripts used internally by QA, Developers, Automation, and DevOps teams with the purpose of simplifying the execution of salt states and executing all necessary steps to ensure that our product's code can be loaded and started properly with a single command.

Austin, Texas, Us

Remote freelance work with a Vietnamese graphic design company.Frontend development with the Vue framework and Typescript.Enhanced mobile and desktop experiences.https://www.Krarks.com

Chicago, Il, Us

An on-campus job.Responsibilities included:Setup, troubleshooting, and breakdown of technology such as computers, projectors, and speakers for various clients who rent out space in DePaul's Lincoln Park Student Center.

Chicago, Il, Us

An on-campus job.Responsibilities included: Running a classroom for ~1-1.5 hours every week.Grading assignments.Working as a team with two other teachers to plan classes.Sending emails to, and meeting individually with 22 students for an hour each outside the classroom.Responding to students―via text, email, or phone calls.

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

Online English tutor via iTalki.com.Student Reviews:"Ross is a very patient and attentive teacher. He corrects all my mistakes and helps me improve my pronunciation. It's a pleasure to study with him. I highly recommend practicing English with this teacher." - Alice"Supportive, Punctual, and Prepared. He is one of my best English teachers." - Sajjad"Ross is a really nice guy that wants to help you and do his job properly." - Andréhttps://www.iTalki.com/RossNelson

Austin, Texas, Us

Used software including Salt, Jenkins, Jinja, and Python to support the back-end of consumer services and Quality Assurance testing environments.* Wrote Jinja templates, and Salt states to populate them and create jobs on Jenkins machines.* Wrote various Python scripts and functions to add, update, and improve functionality to services.* Used Visual Studio Code to write code, and interface with Git to manage branches on BitBucket.* Used Jira to create and progress tickets.* Assisted in database migration

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Worked on a project that compared Rand McNally's Voice UI with competitor's.Responsibilities included:Holding meetings to discuss the progress of, and strategies for testing.Creating Excel and Word documentsCrafting and sourcing sound effects to use during testingRecording voices to use during testingLearned about the product development lifecycle.Helped QA coworkers test various devices.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Tefl Certification, Teaching English As A Second Or Foreign Language/Esl Language Instructor

High School Diploma, High School