Mikeal Rogers

Current

• Python Developer at Mozilla Corporation

Past

• QA Developer at Open Source Applications Foundation
• QA Project Lead at RealNetworks
• Client Core QA Engineer at RealNetworks

• Server QA Engineer at RealNetworks
• Tech Lead (Dedicated Support) at Interland
• Tech Lead (Dedicated Support) at Hostpro

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• blog
• windmill
• functest

Mikeal Rogers’s Summary

::Experience Summary::

6 years industry experience working in Unix based operating systems, this includes configurations, software QA, service management, vulnerability testing, and system analysis. In recent years my focus has been in QA and tools development, automation and backend web technologies in python.

::Skills Summary::

--Operating Systems--
Linux (primarily Debian), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Win98/XP, WinNT/2k, Minimal Mac OS 2-9.1, Mac OS X, Solaris 2.7 & 2.8, IRIX, HPUX

--Systems Administration--
Recent experience administrating Trac and subversion. Prior experience administrating natd, sendmail, Qmail, exim, DNS/bind, apache.

--Networking--
TCP/IP, IPv4 & IPv6, NAT, TCP & UDP, ARP/RARP, ICMP & ICMPv6, LAN/WAN, DNS, appletalk, IPX

--Web Protocols--
HTTP 1.0 and 1.1, XMLRPC, JSONRPC, WebDAV, CalDAV, Atom Pub/Sub in XML/JSON, GData.

--Streaming Media--
RTSP, RTP/RTCP, RDT, knowledge of alternative congestion control implementations (TFRC and Binomial based), some experience with codec implementations (h.264, rm, aac, varied other MPEG-4 based codecs).

--Programming--
At this time I am only interested in positions in which my primary programming language is Python, which is the language I have the most experience. I have prior but by no means recent experience in perl, tcl/tk, php, C, C++ and objective-c.

--Python Technologies--
Outdated experience with TurboGears and Pylons. Recent experience in Django. Experience with all modern ORM’s; Django Models, SQLObject, SQLAlchemy (with/without Elixir). Strong experience with WSGI. Some experience with Twisted web2 WSGI. Lots of experience/annoyance dealing with date/time parsing and representation. Significant experience with; setuptools, cherrypy, simplejson, mako templates, pygments, and most of stdlib.

Mikeal Rogers’s Specialties:

Python, test automation development, tools development, wsgi, web, atom, django, mako templates, markdown, windmill, backend web development.

Mikeal Rogers’s Experience

• Python Developer

  Mozilla Corporation

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

  January 2008 — Present (7 months)

• QA Developer

  Open Source Applications Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — January 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  I was a QA Python Developer at OSAF, working on Chandler and Cosmo. I primarily do development for QA writing test tools, frameworks, and tests in python.

• QA Project Lead

  RealNetworks

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

  December 2004 — July 2005 (8 months)

  I was the QA Project Lead for the upcoming Real Player release. I was responsible for the QA schedule for all the components of this release. I attended triage, read code checkins, assigned regression, and dictated process and automation tasks for the product group. I did not however handle the personal issues of the resources allocated to me

• Client Core QA Engineer

  RealNetworks

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

  January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year)

  I participated in the core testing of the Real Player for the 10 Gold release, Mac Player (10.0 GOLD), and Strummer. My focus was network functionality and WMDRM (Rhapsody CES Beta). In late September 2004 I also took on a development project in which we built out a small FreeBSD distribution including dummynet and other network tools, built for Soekris hardware in order to give a simple and easy to use network testing interface for test and development engineers.

• Server QA Engineer

  RealNetworks

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

  July 2003 — January 2004 (7 months)

  I participated in the testing of the Real Server for the Vodafone R2 release, the Mobile Server Releases and the Server 9 maintenance releases. I was responsible for a variety of features such as logging, 3gpp, Live, congestion controls, and Media delivery.

• Tech Lead (Dedicated Support)

  Interland

  (Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

• Tech Lead (Dedicated Support)

  Hostpro

  (Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

Additional Information

Mikeal Rogers’s Websites:

• blog
• windmill
• functest

Mikeal Rogers’s Interests:

Python, digital media, espresso, open standards, open source, craft brewing.

Mikeal Rogers’s Groups:

Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Silicon Valley-San Francisco Bay Area Python Interest Group (BayPIGgies)

•    RealNetworks Alumni member
•    Python Community member
•    Django member
•    543 Howard St member

Mikeal Rogers’s Honors:

Conferences;
OSCON 2007, Portland, OR
Speaker -- Automated Ajax WebUI Testing with Windmill, July 2007
BayPIGgies, Mountain View, CA
Speaker -- Automated Ajax WebUI Testing with Windmill, October 2007
CalConnect, Various Locations, USA
Round Table Participant, Interop Rep, Steering Committee Rep -- September 2006, January 2007, May 2007, September 2007

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