CHASTITY SAVELLA
Ridgefield,WA
Summary
Dynamic Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience at Intel Corp., excelling in test automation and CI/CD practices. Proven track record in optimizing processes, achieving a five-hour weekly reduction in runtime. Strong leadership and problem-solving skills, adept at managing software releases and enhancing team collaboration through GitHub and Jenkins.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
INTEL CORP.
Hillsboro, USA
06.2015 - Current
- Initially hired as a junior engineer within Intel’s Validation Engineering group then earned progressive promotions into a senior engineering role with primary focus on test automation engineering, infrastructure engineering, packaging engineering, and release management.
- Specific tasks include writing, debugging, and profiling Python, Java, C#, and C++ source code; maintaining production software; generating and delivering installation packages for various debug tool applications; leading process improvement projects; designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for regression environments; and liaising between cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely release of software features.
- Serve as scrum master for the Packaging team, a role earned as the result of strong leadership, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Act as backup release manager on an as-needed basis and train junior engineers.
- Refactored a legacy production packaging process, previously attempted by three engineers, by restructuring and automating critical steps, reducing automated runtime by five hours weekly.
- Led team transition to GitHub as sole source for version control, facilitating communication between automated processes and individual manual contributions.
- Led team transition to Jenkins for continuous integration and delivery from design to implementation of nightly and pull-request triggered builds and regression tests.
- Optimized build and test processes for packaging processes, test configurations, and build configurations.
- Evaluated the efficiency of current processes, designed and implemented algorithms that increased automation and cut time requirements for running these daily processes.
- Supported multi-team debugging sessions by providing software tools for Intel’s client and server products.
- Managed the releases of debug tools through multiple release cycles by communicating customer needs and ensuring software features are released on time.
Programming Systems Technical Support Specialist
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Portland, USA
01.2016 - 06.2016
- Instructed students through laboratory assignments involving object-oriented programming, advanced C++, and Java.
- Tutored students, held regular office hours, assisted professor in preparing course materials, graded programming assignments and written homework.
Lab Analyst
ALS ENVIRONMENTAL
Kelso, USA
07.2013 - 07.2014
- Collected, analyzed, interpreted, and reviewed environmental soil samples taken from various locations in Oregon and Washington as means to determine levels of contamination and pesticides.
- Took findings to clients to show them the potential negative impact their work could have on the environment.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Portland, ORBachelor of Science - Chemistry, Biology
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Forest Grove, ORSkills
- Software development and engineering
- Agile methodologies
- Test automation and quality assurance
- CI/CD practices
- Software release management
- Object-oriented programming
- Infrastructure implementation
- Product management strategies
- Continuous improvement processes
- Unit and regression testing
- Programming languages: C, C#, Java, Python
- Scripting languages: Bash, PowerShell, Vbscript, InstallScript
- Development environments: Visual Studio, VS Code, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA
- Version control systems: GitHub, GitLab, Subversion, Perforce
- Database management: SQL and NoSQL
- API design and implementation: RESTful APIs
- Cloud services: Azure and Jenkins
Interests Affiliations
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Timeline
Programming Systems Technical Support Specialist
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
01.2016 - 06.2016
Senior Software Engineer
INTEL CORP.
06.2015 - Current
Lab Analyst
ALS ENVIRONMENTAL
07.2013 - 07.2014
Master of Science - Computer Science
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry, Biology
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY