Olin Blodgett
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Spex Consulting
Cambridge, Maine, United States
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SeniorOlin Blodgett is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of professional experience and nearly 20 years working on automated deployment systems, Linux infrastructure, and cloud (AWS) and on-prem data center operations. He leads cross-functional teams at The Jackson Laboratory, architecting CI/CD pipelines, approving and mentoring developers, and owning complex debugging across Java stacks (Quarkus, JBoss, Tomcat) and search/indexing systems like Elasticsearch/Opensearch. His background spans building data-driven APIs and indexers (Neo4j → Elasticsearch), interval-tree genome search solutions, and automated deployment tooling using GoCD, Ansible, Docker, and AWS services. Equally comfortable in hands-on systems engineering and technical leadership, he has a track record of onboarding juniors, documenting system architecture, and enforcing testing and software standards. Outside enterprise roles he runs a consulting practice and has built production systems from distributed video encoders to automated Forex trading platforms, showing a blend of pragmatism and inventiveness. Based in Cambridge, Maine, he champions open software practices and balances deep low-level troubleshooting with high-level delivery and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
178reputation
37kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (156)
genome10
loader10
bioinformatics10
relational9
ontologies9
http-authentication9
semantics9
ontology9
owl9
intermine9
http-auth9
json9
meta-analysis9
portal9
database8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alliance-genome/agr_preprocess
Dec 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:11 releases, 4 reviews, 12 PRs in 5 years 7 months
alliance-genome/agr_base_linux_env
Aug 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:9 releases, 4 reviews, 9 PRs in 7 years 6 months
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