Hunter Blanks
Senior Engineering Manager at Rescale
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Blanks is a seasoned software engineer and manager based in Berkeley with 13 years building backend systems, data pipelines, and billing platforms across startups and large tech companies. He has led teams and shipping at-scale systems as Senior Engineering Manager at Rescale and Tech Lead at Google, and grew Segment’s billing team from zero into a reliable, enterprise-capable function. His hands-on background spans Kafka stream processing, usage-based billing, data warehousing, and AWS infrastructure, with early experience as a sole developer and lead backend engineer at startups. Hunter pairs engineering leadership with an avocational expertise in biostatistics—holding an MSc in Medical Statistics and having done small-area estimation for humanitarian surveys—bringing a quantitative lens to product and platform decisions. Collected experience from CloudFlare to Twilio shows he thrives where data, reliability, and billing intersect, and he currently focuses on backend engineering at RunReveal. An uncommon blend of classical education and rigorous statistics informs his pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to building systems.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Classical Languages, B.A., Classical Languages at University of California, BerkeleyLabor, Academics, and Self-Governance, Labor, Academics, and Self-Governance at Deep Springs CollegeMaster of Science - MSc, Medical Statistics, Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Medical Statistics, Distinction at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London
Github Skills (154)
python10
segment-analytics10
automation10
infrastructure10
remote-execution10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scheduler10
scale10
configuration-management10
iot10
salt10
docker10
zeromq10
saltstack10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hblanks/logjam
Sep 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
hblanks/pixel
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
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