Ron Blum
Quality Assurance Engineer at Posit PBC
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRon Blum is a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer with over 15 years of experience in testing, operations, and data-driven marketing, currently ensuring product quality at Posit (formerly RStudio). He blends a rare mix of technical fluency—SQL/PLSQL, Unix, email and personalization platforms—with a background in cognitive psychology that sharpens his investigative approach to software and data issues. Ron has led QA and member-marketing efforts at startups and mid-size companies like Care.com and Upromise, bringing product-minded testing to both consumer and enterprise systems. Known as the one who "steps on the sandcastle" to find weaknesses, he excels at breaking complex systems to make them more resilient and compliant with regulations like CAN-SPAM and GLBA. He pairs hands-on bug-squashing and database expertise with experience in targeting, segmentation, and site personalization, making him effective at uncovering subtle, production-impacting defects.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, History, Psychology, Bachelor of Science, History, Psychology at University of MichiganM.A., Psychology, M.A., Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (29)
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ide10
rstudio10
pandoc10
literate-programming10
rmarkdown10
markdown9
odbc9
database8
quarto8
ruby7
databases7
jupyter-notebook6
python6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ronblum/myths
Mar 2018 - Apr 2026
Contributions:64 pushes, 3 branches, 1 issue in 8 years 2 months
ronblum/Blog
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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