Scott Blackburn Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Senior-level manager and technical lead for a distributed team of 8 engineers that builds cross-platform (web/mobile) experiences and infrastructure to drive growth and engagement. Our portfolio of work includes:- Student homepage, which helps students find relevant jobs, upcoming events, interesting content, and more - Notifications infrastructure (email, push, in-app) that powers notifications across the entire product suite- Direct ownership of our most engaging notifications (job/event recommendations, reminders, etc.)I helped to found the team by bringing together infrastructure and product engineers, creating a new team with a full-stack charter that focuses on impact and efficiency by leveraging machine learning.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Tech lead for Facebook App Integrity Admin Experiences.I led a team of engineers that built user-facing web and mobile products to fight abuse and improve trust for the hundreds of millions of Pages and Groups that reach the billions of users on Facebook. I was responsible for collaborating with product, design, research, and other partner teams to define the overall engineering roadmap, driving execution, promoting engineering best practices, and significant code contributions (Javascript, React, Relay, Hack).Additionally, I was heavily involved in team growth and career development, including recruiting and onboarding new team members, regular mentorship, defining expectations and growth plans, and deep involvement in performance reviews. I was also acting manager in H2 2019 through H1 2020 to help fill the team's needs, shifting back to an IC role to support elections readiness.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

SkipFlag uses your existing conversations, support tickets, and other communication to automatically build and update an enterprise knowledge base. It understands the people, topics, and facts within your company to autonomously answer questions.- Started from scratch as part of a 5 person team that built a smart enterprise knowledge base leveraging machine intelligence.- Developed technology stack and coding standards that provided a consistent, easy to use development environment (Docker), continuous testing and deployment (CircleCI, AWS CodeDeploy), and robust production monitoring (DataDog, PagerDuty).- Focused primarily on building the user experience (Javascript / ES6, React, Relay) and mid-tier services (Python, Flask, GraphQL, SQLAlchemy).

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

- Led a team of around 7 engineers that was responsible for building the web applications (Java, Javascript, Dust.js), mobile application features (iOS/Objective-C and Android/Java), and mid-tier services (Java) that power search at LinkedIn.- Worked with product, design, infrastructure, and relevance partners to completely rebuild the consumer search experience, unifying all existing search verticals (people, jobs, companies, groups) and extending to new verticals (content, schools).- Led effort to transition more than 20 internal partner teams from outdated Java RPC endpoints to new REST APIs.Specific projects include Unified Search, People Search, Job Search, Member Typeahead, and many others.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

- Member of technical team that helped transition the company to a new frontend framework (Java, Javascript, Dust.js)- Built new version of Group Search as a test of new frontend technology (JRuby, Mustache)Specific projects included People Search, Company Search, Job Search, Group Search, and Member Typeahead.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

- Built new version of Company Search, bringing it in-line with the People Search experience in look and feel (Java, JSP)- Focused on improving performance of People Search, decreasing page load time by hundreds of milliseconds (Java, JSP)

Redmond, Washington, Us

Designed and developed web services (C#) and applications (Silverlight and ASP.Net) to enable the monitoring and analysis of data center performance for a large scale cloud computing platform (Windows Azure).

Redmond, Washington, Us

Designed, developed, and tested a project in C# to collect and aggregate client-side quality of service data for a large scale cloud computing platform (Windows Azure).

New York, Ny, Us

Assisted development of a new pre-production transaction monitoring application in an agile environment using Java technologies including GWT.

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science