Will Blackburn
Embedded Software Manager at SAIC
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolWill Blackburn is a seasoned software leader and founder with a decade of experience building and scaling engineering teams and delivering software products. As CTO of NXTsoft from 2016 to 2023, he steered product development and grew the engineering organization from 2 to 35+ engineers while expanding the company from 4 to 160+ employees, culminating in an acquisition by OceanSound Partners. He co-founded DevClarity in 2023, launching DevClarity Pulse, an AI-based tool that gives leaders a real-time pulse on large or remote development teams. He also founded Birmingham AI and serves on its board, reflecting a commitment to advancing AI in the Alabama tech ecosystem. A University of Alabama graduate with a BS in Computer Science and Business, his early startup experience includes Manager House Services and Keen App, and he began his career as a Verizon web development intern.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering at Oakland University
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Github Skills (47)
microsoftgraph8
forge8
minecraft8
csharp7
dotnet7
wcf7
microsoft-graph7
protobuf7
client-library7
graph6
dotnetcore6
grpc5
minesweeper5
c-sharp4
utility-mod4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Harkole/MongoDbProvider
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Wrapper for the C# MongoDB Driver to provide easier methods of generating a context to work with, in addition to providing automation around Collection names
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dotnetcsharpautomationmongodb-drivermongodb
Harkole/Screeps
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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