Summary
George Blazer is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and operating high-availability cloud services, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Adobe in San Francisco. He has deep full-stack and DevOps expertise—AWS, Ruby/Rails, Go, Docker, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and CI/CD—earned while architecting and running Adobe Fonts/Typekit for millions of users with stringent uptime requirements. George has a strong track record scaling global teams and platforms, leading the largest Creative Cloud fonts service and driving resiliency and quality across the ecosystem. Earlier roles span high-throughput data pipelines and SaaS products at Sharethrough and Live Nation, and e-commerce systems at bebe, reflecting a mix of startup agility and enterprise rigor. He pairs hands-on technical craft with operational discipline and a preference for TDD/BDD practices, often tackling the hardest reliability problems behind user-facing simplicity. An economist-turned-engineer, he brings both technical depth and a product-minded perspective to platform and infrastructure challenges.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at Golden Gate University
BS Economics and Management, BS Economics and Management at ASEM
Cantemir
Russian, Romanian