Blair Rampling
Principal Product Manager at Apiary Coaching
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarBlair Rampling is a Berlin-based senior product executive with 10+ years of experience turning infrastructure and developer-focused technologies into revenue-generating products. Currently Director of Product Management at Percona, he has a strong track record building product practices and commercialising open-core offerings—most recently driving first recurring revenue and an LLM-powered assistant for Kubernetes at Kubeshop. His background blends deep technical roots in systems, networking and automation (early career roles in enterprise storage, SAN, and Unix) with hands-on product work across Infoblox, Contentful, Red Hat and Checkly. An active contributor to the Ansible project, he developed modules integrating Infoblox NIOS into a widely used automation platform, showing he still writes production-grade code when it matters. Colleagues describe him as a practicing coach who combines customer-facing discovery with rigorous product process to align engineering, go-to-market and community. He uniquely bridges pre-sales technical empathy and executive product strategy to ship observability and cloud-native tooling at scale.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, French
Github Skills (6)
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
develop10
python10
ansible10
rest-api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 21 PRs, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Blair primarily contributed to the development of new modules and features related to Infoblox NIOS within the Ansible framework. Their work involved creating modules for managing various NIOS record types such as AAAA, A, MX, SRV, and CNAME records. These changes included defining the module's options, documentation, and integration with the Infoblox WAPI for REST API interaction, which significantly enhanced the automation capabilities for network management tasks. Additionally, the user made updates and improvements to existing modules, like `nios_zone`.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
brampling/infoblox-ansible-playbooks
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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