Curtis Blackburn
Staff Engineer, Systems Engineering at Tenstorrent
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Blackburn is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and hardening systems software, currently leading systems engineering efforts at Tenstorrent after a multi-year staff role at Infoblox. He brings deep C, C++, Python and Java expertise plus a strong QA and test-automation pedigree from his time on the BIND9 team at Internet Systems Consortium, where he contributed practical fixes to test suites and CI scripts. Comfortable across development and quality disciplines, Curtis excels at bridging product requirements with reliable, production-grade implementations and automated test strategies. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he leverages a BS in Computer Science and a background that spans embedded and infrastructure projects to solve tricky systems and interoperability problems. An attention to detail shows in contributions that eliminate subtle cross-platform issues (like CRLF fixes) that often break system tests.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (8)
sh10
script10
shell10
dns10
scripting10
testing10
test-automation9
bash9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
isc-projects/bind9
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Archived mirror of https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9, please submit issues and PR/MRs in the GitLab.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Curtis's commits primarily focused on fixing CRLF (carriage return line feed) issues in shell scripts used for system tests. These fixes were applied across various test suites within the `bind9` repository, specifically in the `builtin`, `rndc`, `dns64`, `digdelv`, and `rpzrecurse` test directories. The user also addressed an issue in the `digdelv` test related to a memory dump check.
gitlabdns-serverdnsisc
cyberDrake/tt-zephyr-platforms
May 2025 - May 2025
Zephyr firmware for Tenstorrent hardware
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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