Edwin Brooks

Black Cat Continuous Integration Consulting

Sole Proprietor

January 2021 – Present
Providing development, and testing, pipeline management and automation. Specializing in bootstrapping startups and nonprofits.

Services provided include:

• Automation expertise
• Testing engineering
• Architecture development and design

Clients include YORLabs Inc and other individuals

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Projects

Camphor Tree

July – September 2022
https://github.com/lzbrooks/Camphor_Tree

I constructed a system using a pair of flask servers to transmit email between a RockBLOCK+ and a Raspberry Pi onboard ship.

The system uses an inexpensive waterproof company-facing Iridium satellite modem (RockBLOCK+) intended for IoT relay. Because the RockBLOCK+ uses Short Burst Data, anything I want to transmit is processed and compressed.

See repository for implementation details.

CIOutputParser

January 2016 – February 2020
https://github.com/lzbrooks/ci_output_parser

Python-based parser I developed for collating and formatting log reports. CIOutputParser provides my clients with immediate actionable feedback on the quality of their code, tests, prose, and documentation. The parser generates reports that can be automatically triggered by github checks and subsequently appended to all commits and pull requests.

Handles log files from the following sources:

• Android Lint - structural error checker
• Junit Android Lint - unit test framework
• pre-commit - pre-git-commit-hook framework
• Vale - customizable prose and style checker
• Gtest - Google’s C++ testing and mocking framework
• Firebase - mobile device virtual machine matrix lint and test framework

Trackscraper

April 2017
https://github.com/lzbrooks/track-scraper

An online music collator and organizer

Designed and deployed a Django app on Heroku that uses a Mongo database:

• Used MongoEngine for the database interface
• Implemented a chronic 8tracks web-scraping job to auto-fill the database

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Other Work Experience

Development Lead

January 2016 – December 2018
SAP

Drove the open-source release of the legal compliance project

• Open-source component legal compliance
• Automatic vulnerability identification and notification
• Project specific open-source component search

Researched, designed, implemented:

• Sentiment analysis web-scraping of open-source components
• Developer web portal of rated open-source components
• Legal team web portal of analyzed license agreement changes
• Server and internal API security
• Robust database integration layer from refactored SQL queries
• Hierarchical multi-module framework for project development
• Comprehensive testing (integration, database, and API calls)

Quality Assurance

September – December 2015
Aquatic Informatics Inc

• Managed automatic Windows software deployment system
• Tested production code and expanded the automated C# test suite
  • Ran Octopus deployment platform automation with Powershell scripts
  • Maintained automatic database migration setup

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Education

University of British Columbia

September 2010 – May 2018
Faculty of Science, Computer Science

Intermediate algorithm design, analysis, database design and artificial intelligence

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Interests

Currently sailing New Zealand

Viola, sound-scape design, and experimental storytelling