# Frank Blechschmidt
> Bay Area-based Senior Engineering Manager with 10+ years of experience building scalable cloud infrastructure and developer platforms. Expert in transforming internal tooling into reliable, product-grade systems that drive developer velocity and enterprise-grade reliability. Proven track record of scaling engineering cultures while maintaining a focus on simplicity and speed. Currently at dbt Labs, previously at Lattice, Box, and SAP.

- Location: Sunnyvale, CA
- Current Role: Senior Engineering Manager — Multi-Cell & Networking at dbt Labs
- Email: contact@frank-blechschmidt.com

## Experience

- **Senior Engineering Manager — Multi-Cell & Networking** at dbt Labs (October 2024 — Present)
- **Engineering Manager — Developer Experience & Cloud Engineering** at Lattice (January 2022 — October 2024)
- **Engineering Manager — Kubernetes Engineering** at Box (October 2021 — January 2022)
- **Tech Lead Manager — Kubernetes Engineering** at Box (March 2021 — October 2021)
- **Senior Software Engineer — Kubernetes Engineering** at Box (May 2019 — March 2021)
- **Lead Software Engineer** at SAP Conversational AI (July 2016 — May 2019)
- **Software Engineer** at SAP Innovation Center (October 2015 — June 2016)
- **Software Engineering Intern** at SAP Innovation Center (September 2014 — September 2015)

## Education

- Master, Computer Science — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021)
- Bachelor of Science, IT-Systems Engineering — Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam (2014)

## Open Source

- [python-sutime](https://github.com/FraBle/python-sutime): Python wrapper for Stanford's NLP library SUTime; officially mentioned on Stanford NLP website; downloaded 4,500x/month.
- [python-duckling](https://github.com/FraBle/python-duckling): Python wrapper for wit.ai's NLP library Duckling; used by leading Open Source NLU library Rasa NLU; downloaded 1,000x/month.

## Patents

- Cognitive Enterprise System (US 11,275,894 B2) — [US 11,275,894 B2](https://patents.google.com/patent/US11275894B2/en), [US 2019/0332956 A1](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190332956A1/en), [US 2018/0144053 A1](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180144053A1/en), [US 2018/0144257 A1](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180144257A1/en)

## Technical Skills

- **Programming Languages:** Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, GraphQL
- **Databases:** PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, Timescale
- **Frameworks:** FastAPI, Node.js, Express, React, Tornado
- **DevOps:** Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Git, pnpm
- **CI/CD:** GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Travis CI, GitLab
- **NLP:** SpaCy, Rasa, CoreNLP, Duckling, SUTime
- **Cloud Platforms:** Kubernetes, GCP, AWS
- **Message Queues / Streaming:** RabbitMQ, Kafka, Celery
- **Machine Learning / AI:** TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn
- **Observability:** Datadog, Grafana, ELK Stack, Prometheus, PagerDuty, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Sentry
- **DevSecOps:** Snyk, FOSSA, GHAS, StackHawk

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