Andrew Blum is a Lead DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for large-scale microservice platforms. He has led distributed SRE teams at Grubhub and Nielsen, driving capacity planning, reliability improvements, and the adoption of infrastructure as code using Terraform and Pulumi. Known for pragmatic automation, he built internal self-service tooling, a custom Envoy-based service mesh, and an EKS-centered Kubernetes stack to improve deployment velocity and cost efficiency. A mentor and collaborator, he blends test-driven practices with operational pragmatism to reduce toil and surface measurable performance gains. Based in the NYC metro area, he pairs deep systems experience dating back to Google and The Climate Corporation with a practical focus on developer experience and multi-architecture deployments.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Networking and Systems Administration Minor in Criminal Justice, BS Applied Networking and Systems Administration Minor in Criminal Justice at Rochester Institute of Technology
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