Kailan Blanks
Senior Software Engineer at Fastly
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarKailan Blanks is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years’ experience, currently focused on developer experience at Fastly in London where he builds customer-facing tooling, maintains the Fastly Developer Hub, and supports Compute@Edge. He blends backend engineering with content and community work—contributing to notable open-source projects like withfig/autocomplete by adding Fastly CLI completion to improve terminal UX. Prior roles span platform engineering, operations management, and freelance videography, reflecting an unusual mix of technical depth and production/media experience. Comfortable shipping infrastructure and DX improvements, he often bridges documentation, tooling and developer outreach to make serverless workflows more usable.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
fastly10
autocomplete10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
cli10
shell9
bash8
go6
nodejs6
amazon-ec26
websocket6
amazon-web-services6
bukkit6
ruby6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
withfig/autocomplete
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 13 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kailan contributed to the project by adding completion specifications for the Fastly CLI. The commits involve generating and modifying TypeScript code that describes the Fastly CLI's commands and options. These additions enable IDE-style autocomplete functionality within the terminal for interacting with the Fastly platform, and the user is responsible for adding required arguments to commands. The user's focus is on enhancing the developer experience by improving the ease of use of the command-line interface.
zshiterm2bashfigide
fastly/compute-starter-kit-rust-empty
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Empty package template for Rust based Fastly Compute projects
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
emptytemplateedge-computerustpackage-template
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