Summary
Arnold Blinn is a seasoned technology architect and executive with over three decades of engineering and leadership experience, currently advising at Site Bionics and partnering at Techquity from his base in Bellevue. He has led architecture and product organizations at scale as CTO of PPLSI and Chief Architect at GoDaddy, and earlier shaped platform initiatives across numerous Microsoft divisions including Xbox, Windows Live, and Commerce Server. Arnold blends deep systems and product expertise—from DNS standards (author/committer of Domain Connect) to consumer services and large distributed platforms—with a strong track record of founding and scaling teams and products. Known for turning experimental incubation into production-grade services, he brings a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to technical strategy, M&A, and operational transformation. A Carnegie Mellon-trained applied mathematician/computer scientist, he combines rigorous technical thinking with product empathy and a knack for untangling complex cross-team engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Mathematics/Computer Science, BS Applied Mathematics/Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University