William Blevins
Cloud Automation Engineer
Chilhowie, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Blevins is a Cloud Automation Engineer with a decade of software experience and a recent MSc in Intelligent Systems, blending hands-on cloud automation with interests in AI, ML, and robotics. He has driven CI/CD, test automation, and build reliability at Block.one and made significant DevOps contributions to high-profile open-source EOSIO projects, improving test infrastructure and Dockerized package pipelines. Previously at AWS he built secure, serverless-backed services using Java and cloud-native tools, and at Leidos he engineered cross-platform middleware, simulation components, and automated RPM deployments. Comfortable across Python, C/C++, Java, and shell tooling, he focuses on automation, security, and tooling that make complex systems reliably reproducible. Based in Chilhowie, Virginia, he combines academic AI training with a pragmatic systems background—often surfacing reliability gains through improved CI/CD and pinned build environments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechMaster’s Degree, Intelligent Systems, Master’s Degree, Intelligent Systems at University of SussexNon degree, Software Engineering, A+, Non degree, Software Engineering, A+ at George Mason University
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Github Skills (16)
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bash10
docker10
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shell10
dockers10
scripting10
build-automation10
cicd10
eosio10
wasm-pack9
rust-wasm9
github-ci8
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Github contributions (5)
EOSIO/eosio.cdt
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
EOSIO.CDT (Contract Development Toolkit) is a suite of tools used to build EOSIO contracts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 115 commits, 75 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on enhancing the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the project. They added and modified scripts for package testing using Docker containers, integrating apt and yum package managers. Furthermore, they updated version testing scripts and disabled CI systems that were not configured to push to DockerHub. The contributions streamline the build, testing, and deployment processes.
eosiowasm
EOSIO/eos
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
An open source smart contract platform
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 232 commits, 98 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the quality of the project. Their contributions included adding and modifying tests for various nodeos functionalities, such as full version and build info retrieval. The user also implemented and refined testing procedures, specifically within the context of the CI/CD pipeline and pinned build environments. These changes aimed to improve the reliability and automated verification processes within the EOSIO platform's build and release workflow.
smart-contractseosio
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