Blair Kitchen
Engineering Manager at Bloomberg LP
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair Kitchen is an experienced engineering manager in New York with over 17 years leading teams and more than 20 years building complex systems across telecom, defense, finance, and data-heavy domains. Currently managing engineering at Bloomberg, he combines hands-on technical fluency (C/C++, C#, Ruby, SQL, VoIP/Asterisk, Linux/Windows) with a mentorship-first management style that empowers engineers with clear goals and metrics. He has a track record of rapidly prototyping and deploying unified communications and telemetry systems, and of driving performance improvements and parallelized processing at scale. Comfortable moving between proprietary and open-source stacks, Blair quickly assimilates new domains and provides pragmatic technical and programmatic leadership. His background in both hands-on development and program management lets him bridge customer-facing requirements and internal delivery, often acting as the on-site technical representative for complex deployments.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Spanish, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Spanish at St. Mary's College of MarylandJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (7)
client-library9
ack8
udp8
tcl8
socks7
gate4
discovery2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dongola7/tcl_bonjour
Nov 2008 - Nov 2012
Contributions:31 commits in 4 years
dongola7/Time-Track-CLI
Jun 2010 - Jun 2012
Contributions:73 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 2 years
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