Glenn Block
Group Product Manager - Data Collection & Streaming
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGlenn Block is a product leader and founder with 25+ years building large-scale SaaS and data platforms, currently leading Data Collection & Streaming at Cribl while running ProdSense to help teams build equitable, inclusive products. He’s shipped services used by hundreds of millions at Microsoft and led strategic platform work at Splunk (including HTTP Event Collector) and Auth0, blending deep product strategy with hands-on engineering. A pragmatic builder who still writes code, his open-source contributions span GraphQL for .NET and ASP.NET Web API testing infrastructure, showing comfort across front-end tooling and backend systems. He pairs executive experience with applied DEI advocacy—mentoring, nonprofit partnerships, and running a podcast that explores leadership and fairness in tech. Glenn’s background in developer experience and developer onboarding improvements reflects a talent for turning complex technical platforms into accessible, revenue-driving products.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Hofstra UniversityMathematics for Management and Spreadsheet Modeling, Mathematics for Management and Spreadsheet Modeling at Harvard Business School OnlineLeadership Executive MBA (LEMBA) Leadership and Social Justice, Leadership Executive MBA (LEMBA) Leadership and Social Justice at Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle UniversityAS Business Administration, AS Business Administration at Cayuga Community College
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Github Skills (34)
unit-testing10
roslyn10
graphiql10
testing10
aspnet-web-api10
net10
nunit10
dotnet10
wpgraphql10
netframework10
cs-script10
inversion-of-control10
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script10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
scriptcs/scriptcs
Feb 2013 - Apr 2017
Write C# apps with a text editor, nuget and the power of Roslyn!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 375 commits, 110 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Glenn appears to be a back-end developer primarily focused on the development of the ScriptCS project. The contributions include adding new functionality like REPL support, file processing, and modular components (such as the script library), which are typical of backend development tasks. The user also addressed bug fixes and improved the overall structure of the project by refactoring and adding specific features.
roslyndotnetcsxscriptcsc-sharp
WebApiContrib/WebAPIContrib
Mar 2013 - Sep 2014
Community Contributions for ASP.NET Web API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Glenn contributed significantly to the testing infrastructure of the ASP.NET Web API project. They added extensions for testing API controllers, including configuration and setup utilities. The user implemented tests for these extensions and refactored the test suite, improving overall test coverage. Their work directly focused on enhancing the testing process and ensuring code quality.
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