Andy Blyler
Chief Technology Officer at SchoolCal
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Blyler is a seasoned technology executive with 23 years of experience building scalable data, backup, and security platforms, now serving as CTO in Ann Arbor where he focuses on integrations that simplify school scheduling. He has led large engineering organizations at Barracuda—driving product launches, cloud migrations, acquisitions due diligence, and a cross-product threat signal sharing platform—and most recently shaped AI-driven features and agentic tooling as Director of Software Architecture at Blumira. Andy pairs hands-on engineering (early work on backups, transport encryption, and PHP/MySQL stacks) with strategic architecture for data lakes, cloud migrations, and cost optimization, demonstrating strength across product, infrastructure, and security domains. He is an active back-end contributor to the long-running open-source Cacti project, adding LDAP and multi-version SNMP support and performing meaningful refactors to improve maintainability. Comfortable moving between code, ops, and strategy, he has repeatedly taken products from acquisitional handoff to scalable, cloud-native operations while introducing AI-enabled proofs of concept that accelerate developer productivity.
24 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Dauphin
English
Github Skills (9)
php10
sql10
back-end-development10
cacti10
ldap9
snmp8
snmpd8
configuration-management8
mysql8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Cacti/cacti
Sep 2002 - Sep 2003
Cacti ™
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the Cacti project by adding and modifying PHP code, focusing on features like LDAP integration and configuration settings. They also made changes related to graph functionality and added support for different SNMP versions. Furthermore, the user was involved in refactoring and updating the codebase, as evidenced by the movement of functions and adjustments to existing code, including SQL queries.
graph-templatingrrdtoolcacti-frameworkcactiphp
ablyler/home-assistant-aquahawk
Oct 2023 - Jul 2026
Home Assistant Component for reading water usage data from AquaHawk
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 31 PRs in 2 years 10 months
home-assistantcustom-component
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