Sander Blue
Senior Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolSander Blue is a seasoned software engineer and tech lead with 13+ years building scalable systems across Go, TypeScript, Python, and PHP, currently focused on research-grade AI engineering. He architected a fully private, on-prem AI training platform designed to continuously train open-source models and is layering reinforcement learning to push autonomous model improvement. His background blends distributed systems and cloud infrastructure with hands-on devops and backend maintenance—evidenced by contributions to the terraform provider ecosystem and AWS region support in a prominent New Relic repo. Prior experience in photonics and laser system fabrication gives him uncommon expertise in precision engineering, cryogenic systems, and complex data analysis for government and national lab customers. Comfortable shifting between individual contributor and interim product/technical leadership roles, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to productionizing cutting-edge AI.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Environmental Design - Architecture, Bachelor's degree, Environmental Design - Architecture at University of Colorado at Boulder
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Github Skills (11)
go10
merge-conflicts10
conflict10
aws10
mergetool10
conflict-resolution10
aws-sdk10
devops9
code-formatting8
durandal6
knockoutjs6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/terraform-provider-newrelic
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Terraform provider for New Relic
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 227 reviews, 554 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sander primarily contributed to the maintenance of the AWS SDK Go vendor file by including new AWS regions, and updating the source code to include Middle East (Bahrain), South America (Sao Paulo), US ISO East, and US ISOB East (Ohio) in the list of AWS partitions. The user also resolved merge conflicts and addressed formatting issues. These activities suggest a focus on core back-end dependencies and related build/deployment processes.
newrelicproviderdeveloper-toolkitdeveloper-toolsterraform
sanderblue/wx
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
Weather monorepo currently featuring snow depth data for mountains in the Pacific Northwest.
Contributions:3 PRs, 180 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
mountainsreactnestjsmonorepojavascript
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