# Odell B. > Mid-level Software Engineer Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/odell Software engineer with a background in distributed systems, infrastructure engineering, and high throughput backend services. I've spent my career building things that run in production including monitoring services that prevent outages, caching layers that save thousands of dollars monthly, and tooling that helps engineers sleep through the night. I care about code quality, reliability, and building systems that hold up under real world conditions. Most recently, I was a Protocol Engineer at Polymer Labs, where I owned several production services end-to-end: a multithreaded, rule based monitoring system deployed on Kubernetes, a high throughput RPC proxy handling hundreds of requests per second, and the company's first HTTP payment facilitation prototype. I also led the integration of 20+ external network environments across staging and production, and authored test suites across multiple services to validate correctness under real world scenarios. Before that, I spent two years at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure working on the Java based hypervisor powering OCI's virtual machine fleet — improving launch times by 60%, resolving a long standing memory wipe bug, and building automation tooling for on call firmware investigation. I'm a Carnegie Mellon Computer Science graduate and thrive in environments where the work is technically demanding and the systems actually matter. Skills: Go · Java · Python · Lua · JavaScript · Kubernetes · Docker · OpenResty · Cloudflare Workers · Distributed Systems · Infrastructure Engineering ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Polymer Labs Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | NYC - Infra-bot (Go): Operated a multithreaded internal monitoring and automation service for resource balance management, service health checks, and system invariant enforcement; deployed on Kubernetes and prevented resource exhaustion from halting distributed service operations, supporting after-hours incident response. - RPCX (OpenResty/Lua): Co-developed a high-throughput, multithreaded RPC proxy and caching layer handling hundreds of req/s in production (stress-tested to thousands), reducing redundant upstream calls by orders of magnitude and saving thousands of dollars monthly; investigated and remediated failed upstreams to maintain service uptime. - Chain Expansion: Led technical integration of 20+ external networks across staging and production environments, including non-standard architectures; defined onboarding strategies and recovered failed distributed message proofs during incidents to ensure reliable end-to-end execution. - x402 Protocol (Cloudflare Workers): Implemented the company’s first production HTTP payment facilitation prototype and maintained facilitator/gateway services, enabling existing APIs to accept payments via a drop-in gateway. ### Software Engineer II @ Oracle Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Software Engineer @ Oracle Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Added a feature that sped up instance launch times by 60% - Created a log rotation strategy on Linux to improve the memory management and performance of hypervisors - Extended an internal tool using Java and Javascript to help increase on call engineer productivity - Investigated and remediated a widespread NVMe Drive issue using Java ### Software Engineer Intern @ Oracle Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Resolved multiple code remediations to ensure the security of the code base - Reduced downtime for hot plugging CPUs on virtual machines using QEMU from seconds to milliseconds - Deployed a REST API endpoint for ease of CPU hot plugging ### Product Development Intern @ VMware Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States - Constructed a potential IoT device classification system that was incorporated into Nyansa’s product - Leveraged ElasticSearch, Python, and Ruby to classify potential IoT devices on Nyansa monitored networks - Automated IoT device rule creation by creating benchmarks for what makes a good IoT cluster ### Network Software Engineering Intern @ VMware Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California - Developed a more encompassing testing framework for a new feature in NSX-T - Implemented Python bindings to pre existing C++ code for VMWare’s implementation of RPC - Configured and managed BUILD files, shell scripts, and Bazel files ### Growth Marketing Intern @ Jumpstart Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area - Selected from a pool of thousands of candidates to work closely with the jumpstart team to build out a ML recruiting platform. - Pilot new features, provide student feedback, and act as a product advisor on campus. - Leverage various growth strategies and tools including email marketing, social media campaigns, and presentation / demos - Network with tech companies to bring industry professionals and recruiters on campus - Help to coordinate logistics for campus events and provide peer mentorship ### Virtual Reality Development Intern @ UPS Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area - Built a VR presentation generator which dynamically constructed new VR environments. - Each VR environment could be generated from a text file outlining what media to present and what information text to include - Experimented with the Unity editor and C# scripts to construct the presentation tool ### Software Engineering Intern @ UPS Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Alpharetta, Georgia Responsible for developing software solutions within UPS’s engineering department ### Mathematics and Programming Tutor @ Middle Georgia State University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cochran, Georgia ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 ### Associate of Science - AS in Information Technology Middle Georgia State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/odell-blackmon-iii --- Source: https://flows.cv/odell JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/odell/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20