Marcus Blankenship
Director Of AI ML Engineering at Heroku
Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMarcus Blankenship is a seasoned technical leader and Director of AI/ML Engineering at Heroku with 12+ years delivering cloud-scale platforms, container orchestration transitions, and resilient runtime services. He blends deep hands-on systems experience across Unix/Linux/Windows, multiple languages and databases with a Relational Leadership approach that builds high-trust, autonomous teams. At Heroku he led large cross-functional organizations through an EKS migration, chaired incident response as an on-call executive, and coached engineering managers to improve decision-making and communication. A longtime educator, author, and trainer, he has run leadership workshops and hosted engineering-focused media that emphasize the human side of software. His academic shift into applied psychology and marriage & family therapy informs a rare combination of technical rigor and expertise in team dynamics and performance psychology. Based in Klamath Falls, OR, Marcus pairs operational discipline with a passion for unlocking individual potential across distributed engineering organizations.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Psychology I/O Psychology, Bachelors of Psychology I/O Psychology at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling, Master of Science - MS Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at Oregon Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
521reputation
60kreached
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Github Skills (14)
localhost9
ngrok8
resource-manager7
golang6
macports6
mongodb6
apple-push-notifications6
reverse-proxy6
python6
iphone6
ruby6
django6
clojurescript5
clojure5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
marcuscreo/clojure-learning-resources
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 5 months
clojureclojurescriptbeginning
marcuscreo/docker-react
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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