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Ross Blackburn
Mid-level Product Owner / Application Developer specializing in supply chain ERP and agentic AI platforms
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Architect/product owner/lead developer who built high-scale ERP supply chain and inventory transaction capabilities (including order-to-order pegging) with strong performance tuning in Postgres and robust monitoring/reprocessing dashboards. Also led product for an enterprise agentic development platform using LLM integrations to generate user stories, data models, workflows, and RBAC-secured applications, with sandboxing and promotion guardrails plus UAT across technical and non-technical personas.
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Key Strengths
- Owned end-to-end architecture/product ownership/lead development for a high-volume ERP supply chain reservations module (team of ~6)
- Performance engineering at scale in Postgres (query tuning, indexing, reduced DB trips, bulk updates while preserving versioning/integrity)
- Built operational observability: custom dashboards for volumes/queues/performance plus business-facing on-time vs delayed reservation tracking
- Designed resilient processing with logging, auto-retry, failure surfacing, and manual reprocessing/correction paths
- Legacy modernization with incremental migration: bulk copy + record-by-record validation + handling in-flight documents with monitoring
- AI product leadership: productionized an enterprise agentic app-building platform with guardrails (RBAC, sandboxing, promotion gates) and UAT across personas
- Strong ambiguity-to-roadmap execution via rapid prototyping, stakeholder demos, and iterative requirements refinement
- Effective multi-team technical leadership with fast context switching and pragmatic, reversible decision-making to ship quickly
Reference Highlights
- Strong end-to-end ownership of large application components
- Architectural leadership
- Deep understanding of data models
- Builds performant solutions and guides others to do the same
- Effective mentor who improves other developers’ output
- Handles multiple responsibilities well
- Goes above and beyond to complete work
- Substantial positive impact on team productivity and quality
- Methodical and thorough testing discipline
- Proactive in identifying codebase improvements
- Avoids regressions through comprehensive test coverage
- Strong at removing ambiguity by clarifying requirements and edge cases
- Pragmatic about tradeoffs (delivers functionality while planning performance follow-ups)
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