Odell Blackmon III
Software Engineer II at Polymer Labs
United States
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Top SchoolOdell Blackmon III is a Software Engineer II with eight years of experience focused on distributed systems and infrastructure engineering, currently building at Polymer Labs after a recent stint at Oracle. He has a proven track record of performance-driven improvements—most notably reducing instance launch times by 60% and shaving CPU hot-plug downtime from seconds to milliseconds. Comfortable across languages and tooling from Java and JavaScript to QEMU, ElasticSearch, Python, and Bazel, he combines low-level systems work with productivity tooling for on-call engineers. His internships at VMware and UPS reflect early strengths in network software, IoT device classification, and rapid prototyping including a VR presentation generator. A Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, he pairs rigorous academic training with pragmatic, production-first problem solving. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who surfaces non-obvious system bottlenecks and turns those insights into measurable operational gains.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Information Technology, Associate of Science - AS Information Technology at Middle Georgia State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (29)
javascript9
open-source8
windows6
browser6
linux6
operating-system5
macos5
development-environment5
chromium5
sandbox4
ios4
gift4
android4
web-development3
webassembly3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OdellBIII/Resume
Nov 2023 - Mar 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
OdellBIII/charity-dapp
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
DownBad Smart Contract
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
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