Isaac Foraker

Current

• Test Automation Engineer at Coverity

Past

• Sr. Software Engineer at Copan Systems
• Sr. Software Engineer at Xilinx, Inc.
• Software Engineer at Arinc, Inc.

• Sr. Streaming Software Engineer at Cable & Wireless (formerly Digital Island)
• Programmer at Novalogic
• Programmer/Analyst at Science Applications International Corporation
• Programmer at Bradley University

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Education

• Bradley University

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Industry

Computer Software

Isaac Foraker’s Summary

As an application developer and problem solver, I have over 12 years of development experience in C and C++ using object oriented design. I also specialize in Ruby and Perl scripting.

My experience covers many disciplines, including code and algorithm optimization, software development infrastructure (build, testing, and SCM), database, web development in Rails, and peer-to-peer and client/server networking.

I participate in Open Source Software development, and have released several C++ based projects. I currently manage the Devalot project, a Ruby on Rails based project management wiki.

Isaac Foraker’s Specialties:

C/C++, Ruby, Perl, Rails, Subversion, Git, Perforce, Gnu Make, Rake, Real Time, SQL, TCP/IP, Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, OS X, Games.

Isaac Foraker’s Experience

• Test Automation Engineer

  Coverity

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Sr. Software Engineer

  Copan Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  November 2007 — July 2008 (9 months)

  Deployed internal engineering Wikis and worked toward standardization of an internal build system. Unit test advocate. Acted as answer guy on many software engineering subjects.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  Xilinx, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; XLNX; Semiconductors industry)

  March 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 9 months)

  - Programmed in support of System Generator FPGA design tool, including development of the external user API, integration with various third party tools, and an NSIS based installer.
  - Release engineering: Builds, uniform environment, and internal tool automation.

• Software Engineer

  Arinc, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  September 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  Design and program in support of Railway and Tunnel Control Center software.

• Sr. Streaming Software Engineer

  Cable & Wireless (formerly Digital Island)

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 4 months)

  Developed tools and daemons to manage a globally distributed hierarchical streaming network.

• Programmer

  Novalogic

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  March 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Developed NovaWorld game web site, internal bug report system, mailing list manager, and internal tools for projects.

• Programmer/Analyst

  Science Applications International Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  February 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 2 months)

  Programmed in support of contracts for customers including NASA and the USAF.

• Programmer

  Bradley University

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1995 — December 1997 (3 years )

  Co-developed the Bradley Student Records System, working with the computing and registrar staff on design and implementation.

Additional Information

Isaac Foraker’s Interests:

Writing fiction, developing open source, carpentry.