Daniel S. Cox

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ABOUT ME

I am a Linux Guru, and a Python enthusiast!

I am fluent in Python, shell scripting and C. I'd like to help teams achieve their goals, and thereby help the company.

English

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)

Joined November 2019

EXPERTISE

Python 3

5 years experience

I've been using Python to support various activities with our video provider head-end. Our testing system used Python to create the XML ...

I've been using Python to support various activities with our video provider head-end. Our testing system used Python to create the XML files that ran the tests. It used HTTPS to ask the head-end about linear video and VOD URLs. Other scripts created house holds, and cookies for authenticating with the head-end. I used a multi-process approach to speed up the house hold creation script, in particular.

Bash

8 years experience

I've used bash since it was available 'way back when. Before that I used both the Korn and Bourne shells to script various projects. I ...

I've used bash since it was available 'way back when. Before that I used both the Korn and Bourne shells to script various projects. I like to automate everything. When given an new task, I'll run it manually once or twice to make sure I understand all aspects, then I'll write a shell script to perform the steps.

Git

8 years experience

My first exposure to source code control in the large was CVS. With the introduction of distributed version control systems, I was delig...

My first exposure to source code control in the large was CVS. With the introduction of distributed version control systems, I was delighted. I've used Mercurial (hg) a little bit, but git is the best there is. Most recently I've used github, hosted locally by my companies.

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EMPLOYMENTS

Senior Software Developer

Synamedia, Inc.

2018-10-01-2019-10-01

I was a member of the Solutions Squad, where I was supporting the test environment by updating various Python scripts.

Python

Linux

Bash

Python

Linux

Bash

Senior Software Developer

Cisco

2007-10-01-2018-10-01

In my time at Cisco, I've written many shell scripts, updated and added C++ code to our set-top-box, authored the build system for the se...

In my time at Cisco, I've written many shell scripts, updated and added C++ code to our set-top-box, authored the build system for the set-top-box, used FUSE to show our Broadcast File System as a Linux directory hierarchy on the set-top-box, developed scripts to run in both Jenkins and Electric Commander (now Electric Flow). I also specified, ordered, and installed Ubuntu on our developer's workstations.

Python

Linux

Bash

Python

Linux

Bash

Embedded Linux

PROJECTS

Valinor

Vantage (the name of my team at the time).

2008

Proprietary to Cisco, Valinor was the overall project name for the software that ran on our set-top-boxes. I authored the build system, ...

Proprietary to Cisco, Valinor was the overall project name for the software that ran on our set-top-boxes. I authored the build system, ordered two build systems from the Cisco cloud, and implemented the version numbering strategy. The system ran for six years with only minor changes.

Git

Makefile

Git

Makefile