James Blair
New Zealand, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames 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
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 - Dec 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:4 releases, 1306 reviews, 488 PRs in 2 years 11 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.
distributed-systemskey-value-storeetcdraftkubernetes
jmhbnz/website
Feb 2023 - Jul 2025
etcd.io
Contributions:77 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 4 months
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