Jeff Blair
Sr. Manager, Software Engineer at Western Governors University
American Fork, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Blair is an experienced enterprise software engineer and technical leader with a track record of delivering scalable, reliable systems across productivity applications, application servers, email continuity, and network security. He has led development and releases at notable companies including Novell, Citrix, Solera Networks—where his DeepSee 6.x/7.0 work helped secure a landmark USAF contract—and StorageCraft, delivering the first cross-platform ShadowProtect SPX with centralized management. At SaltStack he contributed to security products built on salt and SaltStack Enterprise, blending deep product ownership with operational security requirements. Based in American Fork, Utah and a BYU computer science graduate, Jeff is known for shepherding projects from conception through ongoing maintenance and upgrades while applying pragmatic Agile practices to keep complex enterprise products shipping.
8 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (19)
docker10
zeromq10
python10
configuration-management10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
iot10
automation10
infrastructure10
scale10
saltstack10
infrastructure-as-code10
salt10
remote-execution10
event-stream10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
smokeytheblair/vscode
Nov 2020 - Sep 2023
Visual Studio Code
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
visual-studio-codevisual-studio-extensionvscodevscode-extensiontypescript
smokeytheblair/Signal-Android
Jan 2021 - May 2026
A private messenger for Android.
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 5 months
messengerkotlinjavaandroid
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