Ed Blankenship
Product Director, Product Experience Platform - Akeneo Product Cloud
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEd Blankenship is a Product Director with 11 years in B2B SaaS product and engineering leadership, currently shaping the Product Experience Platform for Akeneo Product Cloud from London. He specializes in developer tools, platforms, and product-led growth, having led growth and commercial product teams at Contentful and steered product at Algorithmia and Azure DevOps teams at Microsoft. A mentor to Product Managers, he blends hands-on technical experience (ALM/DevOps and release engineering roots) with strategic GTM and PLG motions to turn developer-focused platforms into customer-facing value. He also advises startups through Heavybit, signaling a continued engagement with developer ecosystems and early-stage scaling.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Midwestern State UniversityKellogg School of Management
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Github Skills (62)
2factor10
portable-class-library10
stripe10
authentication10
sms10
hardware10
security10
azure-devops10
factor10
class-library10
tfs10
api-platform9
portable9
ruby9
asp-net-core9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
EdBlankenship/typeform-dotnet
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
apidotnetdata-apisdktypeform
EdBlankenship/intercom-dotnet
Jul 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 9 months
api-clientapidotnetintercom-apiclient-library
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