Daniel Kionka

Current

Sr. Build & Tools Engineer at Phoenix Technologies

Past

Senior Engineer at mywaves
Staff Configuration/Release Engineer at PayPal (eBay)
Sr. Build/Release Engineer at Teneros

Staff Software Engineer at NetIQ
Sr. Software Engineer at Ten Square
Sr. Software Engineer at Marconi
Sr. Software Engineer at Landel Telecom
Sr. Software Engineer at Gadzoox Networks
Sr. Software Engineer at Worldtalk Corp.
Sr. Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems
Sr. Software Engineer at Fujitsu America
Sr. Software Engineer at Austec Inc.
Sr. Software Engineer at Cdex Intelisance
Software Engineer at Bell & Howell

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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Watertown High School

Wisconsin Lutheran High School

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Industry

Computer Software

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Daniel Kionka’s Summary

Software engineer with over 25 years experience in software development on Unix and Windows using Bash, C, C++, Perl, Ruby, and other languages. Happiest when writing code.

Daniel Kionka’s Specialties:

Software development, refactoring, scripting, and software configuration management (build/release)

Daniel Kionka’s Experience

Sr. Build & Tools Engineer

Phoenix Technologies

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; PTEC; Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Senior Engineer

mywaves

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 7 months)

• Maintained and enhanced Rails server tier, refactoring SQL to follow MVC pattern.
• Rewrote an ordered, many-to-many relationship using a CSV field of record IDs.
• Developed utility libraries (mixins) for ActiveRecord, logging, and start-up checks.
• Developed release process with vlad and performed weekly releases and patches.
• Generated SQL reports for site usage.
Staff Configuration/Release Engineer

PayPal (eBay)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ebay; Computer Software industry)

August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)

Maintained, enhanced, and documented the build and QA deploy environment for an e-commerce system using multiple iPlanet/WebLogic labs.
Sr. Build/Release Engineer

Teneros

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

May 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 4 months)

Automate the build process, manage releases, and administer source control.
In addition to standard Windows/Linux builds, I was responsible for creating the Windows and Linux OS disks for an email appliance.
Staff Software Engineer

NetIQ

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NTIQ; Computer Software industry)

April 2002 — May 2005 (3 years 2 months)

Unix and Windows build automation and Unix installation
Sr. Software Engineer

Ten Square

(Computer Software industry)

2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Sr. Software Engineer

Marconi

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years )
Sr. Software Engineer

Landel Telecom

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

October 1998 — June 1999 (9 months)
Sr. Software Engineer

Gadzoox Networks

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

July 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 3 months)
Sr. Software Engineer

Worldtalk Corp.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1995 — July 1997 (2 years 6 months)
Sr. Software Engineer

Cadence Design Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CDNS; Computer Software industry)

March 1989 — February 1995 (6 years )
Sr. Software Engineer

Fujitsu America

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 1986 — March 1989 (2 years 9 months)
Sr. Software Engineer

Austec Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1985 — July 1986 (10 months)
Sr. Software Engineer

Cdex Intelisance

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 1983 — October 1985 (2 years 8 months)
Software Engineer

Bell & Howell

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

May 1979 — January 1981 (1 year 9 months)

Developed educational authoring system for the Apple II.

Daniel Kionka’s Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS , Math and Computer Science , 1981 — 1982
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Computer Science 1976 — 1979

Wrote IBM 370 assember in assembly language using punch cards and my trusty yellow card.
Watertown High School
Wisconsin Lutheran High School