Scott Blomquist
President, Board Of Directors at Ignition Northwest
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolScott Blomquist is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on software architect with 15+ years building teams, cloud and mobile systems, and analytics platforms used by millions worldwide. He has led engineering organizations from zero-to-one product launches and managed eight-figure P&Ls across startups and global entertainment firms, blending strategic vision with day-to-day delivery. A longtime .NET contributor—who has improved CI/CD and backend search services for high-profile NuGet repositories—he pairs deep platform expertise with practical build-and-release savvy. Scott thrives in both turnaround and hypergrowth environments, and has a track record of recruiting, retaining, and scaling high-performing technical teams. He also volunteers coordinating emergency communications for Bellevue and leads an arts-and-education nonprofit, reflecting a commitment to community resilience and creative technology.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at Oklahoma School of Science and MathematicsBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGet.Client
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Client Tools for NuGet - including Visual Studio extensions, command line tools, and msbuild support. (Open issues on https://github.com/nuget/home/issues)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:31 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on modifying build scripts and CI/CD configurations within the NuGet client repository. They updated the `build.cmd` file multiple times to improve compatibility with CI servers and added support for build extras. Their contributions involved adapting the build process for automated environments and configuring specific build settings. They also worked on disabling extension auto-deployment on the CI server.
dotnetnuget-clpackage-managercommand-line-toolsmsbuild
NuGet/NuGetGallery
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
NuGet Gallery is a package repository that powers https://www.nuget.org. Use this repo for reporting NuGet.org issues.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the NuGet Gallery, focusing on the data services and search functionalities. Their work included parsing and filtering target frameworks in the search endpoint, refactoring to prefer specific framework versions, and implementing service discovery support. They also made changes to the package listing behavior and updated package versions in the project.
dotnetreportingnuget-gallerypowerscsharp
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