Drew Blas
Founding Solutions Engineer at Infracost
Topeka, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Blas is a senior engineering leader and founding solutions engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience building secure, cloud-native platforms and leading remote teams from Topeka, Kansas. He has driven large migrations and reliability programs—moving legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes and AWS at scale—while maintaining strict compliance in high-security environments (PCI, SOC) and delivering 99.99% uptime. Comfortable in founder, staff, and director roles, he combines deep engineering skills in Go, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Terraform, and AWS with a consultative “whole picture” approach honed in contracting and product settings. Drew is particularly adept at translating audit and regulatory requirements into practical platform controls and CI/CD practices that reduce operational risk. He’s spent over 15 years working and managing remotely, bringing a pragmatic, outcomes-focused style to distributed teams and fast-moving startups.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Franklin University
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Github Skills (160)
timeseries-database10
dashboard10
postgresql10
realtime10
cost-optimization10
terraform10
gcp10
influxdb10
monitoring10
aws-ses10
chargify10
clojure10
metabase10
azure10
data-visualization10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
chargify/liken
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
drewblas/aws-ses
Jun 2011 - Sep 2020
Provides an easy ruby DSL & interface to AWS SES
Contributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 9 years 4 months
aws-sesdslruby
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