Greg Blomquist
Senior Director Of Engineering at Digital Turbine
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Blomquist is a Senior Director of Engineering with 17 years of experience advancing cloud, ecommerce, and management platforms from hands-on development to multi-team leadership. He rose through the ranks as a Ruby/Java/Python backend engineer focused on scalable, distributed systems and cloud integrations, contributing to notable open-source projects like ManageIQ and the fog cloud library. At Red Hat he led engineering for OpenShift, Ansible, Automotive and Edge teams, guiding platform integrations and operational reliability at scale. Greg is known as an advocate and mentor who prioritizes career growth—deriving his greatest satisfaction from promoting top engineering talent into senior roles. He blends deep technical fluency (OpenStack, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, automation with Puppet/Ansible) with strong cross-functional communication and pragmatic negotiation with product teams. Based in Cary, NC, he still enjoys deep technical discussions and quietly influences cloud event-monitoring and tenant management improvements used in production.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Portland State University
Github Skills (25)
ruby-rails10
event-handling10
cloud-computing10
openstack-api10
rails10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
openstack10
api-design9
restful-api9
testing9
git9
api-rest9
devops9
automation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq
Jun 2014 - Oct 2018
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1111 commits, 735 PRs, 626 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Greg focused on refactoring and improving the OpenStack event monitoring capabilities within the ManageIQ platform. Their contributions include removing obsolete code, enhancing the handling of RabbitMQ queues, and improving the event filtering process. The user also addressed security concerns by stopping the use of adminURL OSP service endpoints and corrected migration issues related to the OpenStack setup. Furthermore, they added support for OpenShift Enterprise and made updates to the automation engine.
gcporigamiopenshiftcephredfish
ManageIQ/manageiq-ui-classic
Jun 2014 - Jul 2017
Classic UI of ManageIQ
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:457 commits, 2 PRs, 28 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Greg contributed to the back-end of the ManageIQ UI Classic, focusing on cloud tenant management. Their commits primarily involved modifying cloud tenant controllers to add features such as security groups, images, and list views within the ems_cloud. The user also addressed code style issues and refactored to improve clarity within the controller files. The user also added the cloud tenant detail page.
reactmanageiq
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