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Andrew Blackmon

Site Reliability Engineer.

Role SRE @ hebbia
Since 2026-04-27
Where Nashville · UTC-5 · remote

§ About

SRE at Hebbia. Networking background, pivoted to reliability work in 2020. I work best embedded with product teams — writing reliability into the code rather than running ops from a separate org.

§ Work

tail -f /var/log/career.log
[2010-08-01 08:00:00] INFO bootstrap: student network engineer @ college-of-the-ozarks
[2012-04-01 09:00:00] INFO promoted: level-iii engineer @ smart-choice-communications
[2013-10-01 09:00:00] INFO aos: post-sales network consultant
[2017-05-01 09:00:00] INFO relocated to nashville: sr. network engineer @ ingram-content-group
[2020-05-01 09:00:00] WARN context-switch: networking → sre @ postmates
[2021-03-01 09:00:00] INFO acquisition: postmates → uber. swe-ii @ uber
[2021-08-01 09:00:00] INFO short stop: sr. swe @ root
[2021-12-01 09:00:00] INFO joined found as sre
[2026-04-27 09:00:00] OK scaled up: sre @ hebbia
[2026-05-20 07:37:02] OK page rendered for visitor — status 200

§ Education

B.S. Computer Science, College of the Ozarks (2009–2013). Minors in Mathematics and Criminal Justice.

§ Former cisco era (folded)

Used to live in cisco land. The certs are dated and mostly expired, but the time logged in route/switch + telecom shaped how I think about infra now. Listed here for honesty, not for currency.

CCNP Route/Switch — 2014-01, exp 2023-05
CCNA Data Center — 2014-06, exp 2023-05
CCNA Security — 2014-03, exp 2023-05
CCNA Wireless — 2014-02, exp 2023-05
CCNA Voice — 2014-02, exp 2017-06
CCNA Route/Switch — 2013-11, exp 2023-05