Levi Blackstone
Staff Software Engineer at Pulumi Corporation
Sandy, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLevi Blackstone is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native and embedded systems, currently focused on developer tooling and Kubernetes ergonomics at Pulumi. He blends deep systems engineering (Go, Python, Kubernetes) with practical DevOps craftsmanship, contributing notable improvements across Pulumi’s core SDKs, docs, and multi-cloud examples. His background includes production-grade Kubernetes platform work at Rackspace—45+ upstream PRs across installer projects—and earlier embedded and communications systems R&D using C/C++ and LabVIEW. Levi is comfortable moving between low-level device interfaces and large distributed platforms, and he routinely tackles R&D projects that require both architecture-level thinking and hands-on implementation. Notably, he’s shipped security-minded infrastructure improvements (automated password generation in GKE examples) and tooling to streamline documentation workflows. Based in Sandy, Utah, he pairs academic rigor (MS in ECE) with a track record of open-source impact on widely used cloud infrastructure projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Texas Tech University
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
python10
bash10
resource-management10
gcp10
pulumi10
go10
sdk10
aac10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure-as-code10
g10
k8s10
documentation10
microsoft-azure9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/examples
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
Infrastructure, containers, and serverless apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes... all deployed with Pulumi
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 32 commits, 60 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Levi primarily focused on enhancing the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Pulumi examples repository. Their commits showcase the implementation of automated password generation within a GCP Kubernetes example, demonstrating a focus on security and configuration best practices. Furthermore, the user implemented and improved multi-cloud Kubernetes examples, including supporting Azure AKS deployments and associated improvements to the GKE examples, indicating a strong understanding of cloud platforms.
containersgcpdevopsserverlessinfrastructure
pulumi/pulumi
Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:258 reviews, 107 commits, 219 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Levi contributed to the Pulumi project by addressing several issues and implementing new features primarily within the Go and Python SDKs. Their contributions included adding support for array maps, handling constant values, addressing recursion and type issues, and incorporating the `ResourceType` for resource references. Additionally, the user worked on improving the configuration file caching and managing external references, thereby improving overall project functionality and developer experience.
gcppythonfsharpserverlessgo
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