Joe Blaylock
Senior Release Engineer, YouTube at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Blaylock is a Senior Release Engineer at YouTube with 13 years of experience designing resilient release and CI/CD systems, configuration management, and full-stack development. He blends hands-on software engineering (Python, Django, JS) with devops discipline learned at Stanford, SLAC, and Google—shipping large-scale, test-driven platforms and building tooling that endures. A long-time open-source contributor, he has worked on the Open edX ORA assessment suite and platform configuration tooling, demonstrating both XBlock/full‑stack work and infrastructure automation. Joe brings product-minded engineering and cross-team collaboration—comfortable running releases, mentoring peers, and owning operational reliability. Outside core work he pursues interdisciplinary interests from philosophy of mind to planetary science, which inform a human-centered approach to systems and UX.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
docker10
openedx10
python10
configuration-management10
bash10
xbl10
dockers10
ansible10
system-administration10
ansible-galaxy10
nginx10
git9
django9
mako9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Apr 2013 - Apr 2014
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:103 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management for the Open edX platform. Their contributions include implementing pre-commit and post-checkout hooks for code linting, improving directory management in git hooks, and parameterizing the platform's code directory. Furthermore, the user reconfigured nginx logs and rsyslog, and set up logrotate for log management. They also extended the ec2.py script to accept an INI file for configuration and updated git repository URLs to use HTTPS.
openedxansibledockerpython
openedx/edx-ora2
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Open Response Assessment Suite
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the development of an Open Response Assessment (ORA) suite, focusing on the implementation of new XBlock components. Their work included creating an XBlock for composing responses, connecting it to the submissions API, and integrating features for students to view scores and feedback. They also refactored code, improved error handling, and added features like prompt display and rubric parsing, demonstrating a full-stack approach.
assessmentpythonsuite
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