Gary Nakanelua
Managing Director, Product & Innovation
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Nakanelua is a seasoned technology leader and builder with over a decade of experience leading digital transformation, product engineering, and cloud-first solutions from Bellevue, Washington. As Managing Director, Technology at Blueprint Technologies since 2017, he combines strategic consulting with hands-on delivery across customer experience, data platforms, and infrastructure modernization. His background spans startups and enterprise programs—from co-founding creative agencies and platforms to managing a $3.4M federal e-commerce cloud initiative—bringing both entrepreneurial instincts and disciplined delivery. Technically fluent across Python, Node, C#, AWS and a variety of web and embedded stacks, he translates complex requirements into scalable, operational systems. He holds executive education in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School Online, reflecting a focus on aligning technology roadmaps with business disruption. Colleagues describe him as curious and pragmatic, equally comfortable sketching product vision and diving into technical architecture.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Other; Certificate in Disruptive Strategy, Other; Certificate in Disruptive Strategy at Harvard Business School OnlineInteractive Media, Interactive Media at Art Institute of PittsburghNetwork and System Administration/Administrator, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Western Kentucky University
Github Skills (22)
testing9
vulnerability-scanners9
pentesting9
evaluation-framework8
cicd8
staging8
vulnerability8
evaluation8
llmops7
llm7
command-line7
prompt-engineering7
odata6
claude6
ai6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BlueprintTechnologies/nash
Jun 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
BlueprintTechnologies/Blueprint-Azure-Bicep-Quickstart-Accelerator
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 PRs, 55 pushes, 7 branches in 14 days
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