Blaine Southam
Chief Technologist - Compute Cloud at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlaine Southam is a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of hands-on software engineering experience and a decade focused on cloud and compute architecture. As Chief Technologist for HPE Compute Cloud, he drives architecture strategy and has repeatedly translated SaaS and bare-metal provisioning needs into production-ready solutions for GreenLake and hybrid environments. He has a long track record of pioneering work— from leading CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration to enabling composable infrastructure integrations with major partners like VMware, Docker, and Ansible. An experienced speaker and evangelist, Blaine frequently presents on compute security, automation, and next-gen compute at industry events. He combines deep technical breadth with mentorship—helping individuals grow careers while shaping product and partner ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (32)
variants10
feature-toggle10
command-line-interface10
unleash10
feature-flags9
feature-management9
devops9
sdk9
collaboration9
rest8
continuous-delivery8
continuous-deployment8
vault6
bare-metal6
react5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HewlettPackard/hpecli
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Command-line interface for HPE products and services
Contributions:266 commits, 168 PRs, 288 pushes in 4 months
command-line-interface
HewlettPackard/hpe-globaldashboard-swagger
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
HPE OneView Global Dashboard OpenAPI Specification
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
openapi-specificationspecificationoneviewhpedashboard
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