Ian Blenke
Platform Operations Technical Lead - L7 @Dfinity Foundation
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WORK HISTORY
Platform Operations Technical Lead - L7 @Dfinity Foundation
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EDUCATION
University of South Florida
B.S.Cp.E, Computer Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT IAN BLENKE
Growing up in a family immersed in early mainframe computing, my youth was spent in an 8 bit machine language world. Starting with Basic on a Commodore PET and TRS80s in grade school, the Commodore 64 engulfed my formative high school years where I mastered 6502 machine language.In 1991, I discovered the ARPAnet while working at Harris. I co-founded and ran an early ISP in the pre-\"Internet Boom\" times. Since then, I\'ve jumped between building Telecommunications infrastructures and Managed Services built primarily on OpenSource with just enough vendor gear to solve real world problems.Telephony: years of Telco experience. From TDM, ATM, and VoIP signalling debugging to building datacenters. I\'ve built an integrated H.323/SIP platform for one of the largest deaf Video Relay Service providers. Most recently, I\'ve codified converged cloud and physical infrastructure and containerized proof-of-concept future looking systems for Special Forces at SOFWERX. From a homegrown Configuration Management harness for a few thousand linux virtual machines to running startups on CI/CD cloud infrastructure, I\'m old school DevOps.Development background: everything from 6502/80x86/370 assembler to C/Java and Perl/Ruby/Python/Go/Javascript. OpenSource software is my background and preference. While Ruby is my current favorite, Go is quickly becoming a personal time sink.Goals: Continue a life-long journal of learning the ever-growing OpenSource ecosystem, embracing Agile methodologies and software craftsmanship skills, and creation of new cloud based platforms and services that people actually use.My fascination with technology drove me to become the Computer Engineer I am today. From the firmware of a device to cloud data analytics algorithms, if something can be represented digitally, I yearn to understand how it works.Specialties: OpenSource, Linux, SIP, H.323, Telepresence, Agile Development, Networking, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, DevOps, System Architecture.
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