Odell Blackmon III is a Software Engineer II with eight years of experience focused on distributed systems and infrastructure engineering, currently building at Polymer Labs after a recent stint at Oracle. He has a proven track record of performance-driven improvements—most notably reducing instance launch times by 60% and shaving CPU hot-plug downtime from seconds to milliseconds. Comfortable across languages and tooling from Java and JavaScript to QEMU, ElasticSearch, Python, and Bazel, he combines low-level systems work with productivity tooling for on-call engineers. His internships at VMware and UPS reflect early strengths in network software, IoT device classification, and rapid prototyping including a VR presentation generator. A Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, he pairs rigorous academic training with pragmatic, production-first problem solving. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who surfaces non-obvious system bottlenecks and turns those insights into measurable operational gains.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Information Technology, Associate of Science - AS Information Technology at Middle Georgia State University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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