Tanner Blair
R&D Director at ALIARO
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTanner Blair is an R&D director and software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Hardware-in-the-Loop testing and validation of complex electromechanical systems. He leads cross-continental teams from Austin and Gothenburg to design hardware and software solutions, blending systems architecture, real-time test workflows, and hands-on implementation. Known for driving tooling and process change—such as adopting Git/GitHub across squads and improving signal routing/faulting in VeriStand and LabVIEW—he balances technical leadership with mentorship and developer enablement. His background includes customer-facing optimization of FPGA algorithms and frequent on-site guidance for large HIL deployments, reflecting strong systems thinking and practical problem solving. Passionate about making things and connecting people to help, he combines rigorous engineering with a knack for translating customer needs into usable test platforms.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at University of Oklahoma
English
Github Skills (68)
custom-configuration10
insertion9
json-values8
tracks8
unit-test8
testing7
near7
fault-tolerance7
assertion7
development-environment7
fault7
labview7
unit-testing7
continuous-integration7
slave6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LRUArchitecture/SLSC-Switch
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 9 PRs, 59 pushes in 11 months
NIVeriStandAdd-Ons/VeriStand-Addon-CD-Import-and-Export-Tool
Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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