Stuart Blackburn

Stuart Blackburn is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in quality assurance and test automation. Currently, Stuart serves as a Staff SDET Engineer at Dragos, Inc., having previously held roles as Senior Quality Engineer at both Dragos and Think Systems, as well as an Automation Test Engineer at Micro Data Systems, where work included automation validation for NetApp's Trident project. Prior to these roles, Stuart led IoT QA efforts at Cree Lighting and held various positions at Cree, enhancing test automation frameworks. Stuart’s earlier career includes significant contributions at Oracle as a QA test tools manager and software engineer, and at Tekelec, where Stuart was involved in enhancing testing tools and developing a patented test automation framework. Educational qualifications include a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.