Barbara Nelson
Vice President, Engineering at BlastWave
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBarbara Nelson is a seasoned engineering executive who leads global product, architecture, and operations teams to deliver cloud-native services and client applications. As Vice President of Engineering at InfluxData and former CTO of Cirrent, she combines hands-on technical depth in distributed architecture, mobile/embedded firmware, Wi‑Fi and security with strategic leadership across startups and larger Silicon Valley companies. She is fluent translating complex technical ideas into business-facing narratives and has stepped into roles from CTO to CIO as needed to drive outcomes. Barbara has experience managing IP, compliance, and global workforces while building technology partnerships that accelerate product delivery. Beyond executive duties she serves on boards and as an investor in FemTech, reflecting an interest in shaping industry direction as well as products. Her background spanning early engineering roles in pioneering firms to senior architect positions gives her a rare mix of deep systems expertise and pragmatic product sensibility.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (68)
timeseries-database10
scripting-language10
faunadb10
influxdb10
monitoring10
influx10
kapacitor10
golang10
rust10
chronograf10
scalable10
database10
json10
scripting10
kafka10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/flux
Mar 2020 - May 2022
Flux is a lightweight scripting language for querying databases (like InfluxDB) and working with data. It's part of InfluxDB 1.7 and 2.0, but can be run independently of those.
Contributions:9 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 2 months
scriptinginfluxfaunadbqueryingsql
influxdata/influxdb
Dec 2019 - Feb 2025
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Contributions:2 pushes, 14 comments, 16 issues in 5 years 3 months
real-time-analyticsscalablereactanalyticsevents
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