James Blair
Senior Product Manager, Cloud Integrations
Eagle Mountain, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Blair is a Senior Product Manager specializing in cloud integrations with eight years of experience bridging data science, engineering, and enterprise partnerships. Based in Utah, he has guided integrations with major platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, SageMaker, Google Cloud, and Azure, and now leads cloud integrations and partner strategy at Posit while founding Landform Labs. He combines hands-on technical chops—contributing backend fixes and refactors to the high-profile etcd distributed datastore—with product instincts that produced an agentic AI demo builder that cut prep time by 90%. A regular conference speaker and former adjunct professor in Applied R Programming, James maintains deep customer engagement through 200+ calls a year to shape enterprise-ready products. His background in statistics and data science enables him to translate complex ML and data infrastructure needs into pragmatic, deployable integrations.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Data Science, Master’s Degree Data Science at University of the PacificBachelor’s Degree Statistics, Bachelor’s Degree Statistics at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (9)
logging10
distributed-systems10
go10
etcd10
key-value10
testing9
raft9
go-modules9
cicd7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
etcd-io/etcd
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1211 reviews, 446 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the etcd project by addressing specific regressions and making general refactoring improvements. They fixed a regression in timestamp resolution for logging, ensuring consistency with the project's existing logging format. The user also refactored variable names and removed code related to e2e coverage calculation. Furthermore, the user made dependency updates and addressed other related issues.
etcdcriticalconsensusdistributed-systemreliable
jmhbnz/charts
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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