Ed Blackman
Senior Software Developer at SAS Institute
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Blackman is a senior software developer with 17 years of hands-on experience and over seven years specializing in installation and configuration technologies to improve the install/maintenance experience for enterprise software at SAS. He combines deep cross-platform systems knowledge (Linux, AIX, Solaris, Windows, OpenVMS) and languages (Java, Perl, C/C++, shell, Python) with a pragmatic focus on test automation, refactoring, and build/tooling improvements. At SAS and previously IBM he led efforts to modernize deployment tooling, introduce unit testing and agile practices, and port complex systems across platforms. An active open-source contributor, he has improved reliability and platform-specific behavior in prominent projects like borgbackup and enhanced usability in widely used CLI tooling such as todo.txt-cli. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs big-picture process improvements with a talent for minimally disruptive code changes that scale across heterogeneous environments.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina State UniversitySouthview High SchoolTexas A&M University, CollegeNC School of Science and Mathematics
Github Skills (19)
filesystem10
pytest10
python10
scripting10
linux10
script10
file-handling10
sh10
shell10
cli10
deduplication9
todolist9
sed9
regular-expression9
compression8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
todotxt/todo.txt-cli
Mar 2009 - Jun 2010
☑️ A simple and extensible shell script for managing your todo.txt file.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the todo.txt-cli shell script. Their contributions include exporting variables for use in extensions, implementing pre and post filters for the _list function, and replacing `wc -l` with `sed` for more efficient line counting. Additionally, they made improvements to spacing and corrected typos to improve code readability.
clitxttodolisttodoslinux
borgbackup/borg
Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 68 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ed contributed significantly to the BorgBackup project by addressing platform-specific issues, particularly related to path normalization on macOS. They also refactored and improved the test suite, merging tests and enhancing platform-specific test handling. Moreover, the user implemented features such as adding 'x' status for excluded paths in the create command output, and refined the logging mechanism. These changes enhance the reliability and usability of the backup tool.
pythondedupecompressionsshdeduplication
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