Summary
Mary Blair is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with about a decade of industry experience and seven years in professional engineering roles, specializing in microservices, RESTful APIs, and AWS serverless and container platforms. She has hands-on experience across Golang, Node/Express, PHP/Laravel, React, and Postgres/DynamoDB, and has repeatedly translated ambiguous requirements into technical designs, test plans, and production-ready implementations. Mary has driven architectural improvements—introducing AWS DocumentDB auditing, designing a Payments microservice with PCI-conscious integrations, and helping teams move from monoliths to microservices—while also improving accessibility and observability practices. She pairs disciplined engineering processes (detailed test plans, RFC-style design sessions, and OpenAPI-driven APIs) with a willingness to pick up frontend bugs or infrastructure tweaks as needed. Based in Kansas City, she brings a curious maker mindset: outside work she hacks vintage knitting machines with Arduino and contributes to parametric sewing and AYAB open-source communities, blending hardware, craft, and software. That blend of practical product delivery and creative tinkering makes her effective at spotting pragmatic, often-overlooked solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science w/ minor in Spanish, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science w/ minor in Spanish at Kansas State University
English, Spanish