Warren Blackwell

I've spent my career taking on the hardest problems I can find—modernizing legacy platforms, designing foundational systems, and stepping in when architecture or delivery is under pressure. I care about clarity. I design systems with explicit contracts, well-defined interfaces, and observable behavior—because production doesn't care about your abstractions, it cares whether the thing works.

My tools are Go, Java, and C/C++, exposed through gRPC and REST APIs, deployed on Kubernetes across AWS and other cloud environments. Deep experience in security, identity, and large-scale backend services. I build platforms that are easier to reason about, test, and operate—not because they're simplistic, but because they reflect real workflows, real failure modes, and real constraints.

I'm also a musician, a maker, and a dad. I play keys and drums, build things with 3D printers, and I'm currently trying to build a fixed-wing airplane from foamboard and brushless motors. The engineering mindset shows up in everything—in how I design systems at work, in how I approach a new instrument, in how I teach my kids to measure twice before they cut.

More recently, I've been deep in AI-augmented engineering—building complete systems with AI tools, sharing methodology, and coaching teams on practical human-AI collaboration. I ran a rigorous experiment: 969 commits over 38 days, 99%+ AI-generated code under my direction. I share what I learn through brownbags, coaching, and writing.

I'm a player-coach. I lead by doing. I leave teams and systems better than I found them. And I'm genuinely fun to work with—people tell me that, and I believe them.