Blaise Perennial
Software Engineer at Sublime Security
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlaise Perennial is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and distributed infrastructure, currently based in Denver and working at Sublime Security. He has a strong track record at companies ranging from startups (founding engineer roles at Sproutling and Lyfe) to large platforms (Google’s Go team and HashiCorp’s Consul), blending systems programming, DevOps, and database engineering. Blaise contributes to well-known open-source projects—improving Consul’s stability and enhancing DynamoDB support in goamz—and has a knack for hardening integrations and flaky tests. He frequently focuses on edge-case handling and testability, for example adding explicit error handling and endpoint configurability in geocoding libraries. Comfortable shipping production services and debugging distributed timeout behavior, he pairs practical engineering with an interest in developer tooling and observability. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he brings both academic grounding and hands-on experience across cloud-native and embedded web systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
amazon-dynamodb10
consul10
error-handling10
go10
api10
dynamodb10
aws10
testing10
devops9
apidoc9
service-discovery8
kubernetes8
apim8
service-mesh8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 27 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Blaise contributed to bug fixes, primarily addressing flaky tests and correcting timeout behaviors within the Consul agent. They modified code related to HTTP/TCP checks, ensuring timeouts align with user-configured values and fixed an issue related to the Consul Connect Envoy configuration. Additionally, the user added functionality to allow /operator/keyring requests to hit only local servers. These contributions indicate a focus on improving the stability and functionality of Consul's core features and operational aspects.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
kellydunn/golang-geo
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Geographical calculations in Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Blaise focused on improving the robustness of the Google Geocoder integration. Their contributions include handling edge cases by ensuring the code returns an error when the Geocoder returns no results, addressing and resolving failing tests, and adding a new test case to explicitly verify the error handling for zero results. They also added functionality to change geocoding endpoints for testing purposes. These changes enhanced the stability and testability of the project's geocoding functionality.
golanggeographicalcalculations
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