Blair Hester

Blair Hester is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in IT infrastructure and operations. Currently serving as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Apex Clearing Corporation since October 2020, Blair previously held the same title at New Relic, Inc. from May 2015 to June 2020, where contributions included the establishment of the Kafka Platform Team and significant enhancements in automation and scalability. Prior roles include Staff Engineer at Pivotal Software, Inc. and Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware, where responsibilities encompassed packaging, infrastructure management, and system migration. Blair's career began at Hyperic, Inc. as IT Manager, with earlier positions in systems administration at CA Technologies, Wily Technology, Sycomp, and BeVocal.