Stuart Blair
Senior Director, Technical Agile Delivery at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolStuart Blair is a seasoned technology leader with 14+ years of experience driving agile transformation and scalable architecture across enterprise software, currently serving as Senior Director of Technical Agile Delivery at Salesforce in San Francisco. He has a proven record of slashing cycle times and reducing defects through adoption of TDD/BDD, continuous delivery, and consumer-driven contract testing across globally distributed teams. His work spans regulated medical devices to large-scale e-commerce and financial systems, including cutting feature cycle time from 15 to 2 days at GE Healthcare and enabling Gap Inc.’s microservice decomposition for peak-load scalability. Stuart pairs hands-on engineering discipline with architectural decomposition to lower operational risk—demonstrated by major increases in test coverage and reductions in service incidents during cloud migrations. He brings academic depth (MSc, PhD in Computer Science) to practical delivery, and a habit of measuring developer impact quantitatively via commit and cycle-time analysis. Notably, he blends coaching and process change with technical enforcement, running coding dojos, hackathons and system-level chaos testing to build resilient teams and platforms.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science at University of St AndrewsMSc, Advanced Information Systems, MSc, Advanced Information Systems at University of Glasgow
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Github Skills (74)
mocks10
mocking10
test-automation9
testing9
java9
mockito9
amazon-api-gateway8
pact8
unit-testing8
triple7
amazon-api7
stream6
accelerometer6
backend6
ssis6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stuartblair/reigns
Dec 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:31 commits in 2 months
stuartblair/dotfiles
May 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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