Keith Blackstone
Head Of Customer Engineering - Strategic AI & ISV - Google Cloud
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolKeith Blackstone is a seasoned cloud and security engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling high-performance teams across Google Cloud, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and Citigroup. Currently Head of Customer Engineering for Strategic AI & ISV at Google Cloud, he combines GTM strategy, systems engineering, and org design to translate complex technical priorities into measurable business outcomes. Known for recruiting and mentoring diverse engineering teams, Keith has repeatedly driven territory expansion, process scaling, and multimillion-dollar revenue growth through disciplined technical sales enablement and cloud transformation. He blends deep hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and threat protection expertise, and holds an MBA from the University of Maryland that complements his technical foundation in computer engineering. A pragmatic collaborator, he favors empathetic, equity-centered customer engagements that convert strategic vision into executable programs.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of BusinessBS IT, BS IT at University of PhoenixComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Rutgers University
Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kblackstone/Dev
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:221 commits, 2 PRs, 203 pushes in 1 year 3 months
production-readypythonnot-production-readyproduction
kblackstone/PaloAltoNetworks
Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:195 commits, 192 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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