Blaze Bissar
About Blaze Bissar
Blaze Bissar is a Site Reliability Engineer at Two Sigma, specializing in caching as a service platforms. He has a background in software engineering and data management, with experience in the US Army and a strong educational foundation in computer science from the United States Military Academy and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Work at Two Sigma
Blaze Bissar currently serves as a Site Reliability Engineer at Two Sigma, a position he has held since 2021. In this role, he is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the company's caching as a service platform. His work focuses on improving system, infrastructure, and software reliability through enhanced monitoring, alerting, data durability, automation, APIs, and documentation. He employs various technologies, including Python, Java, Redis, DataDog, and GCS, to achieve these objectives.
Previous Experience at Defense Digital Service
Before joining Two Sigma, Blaze Bissar worked as a Software Engineer at the Defense Digital Service from 2017 to 2019. During his tenure in the Washington D.C. Metro Area, he contributed to various software projects aimed at enhancing digital services for defense operations. His experience in this role laid the groundwork for his future work in site reliability engineering.
Experience in the US Army
Blaze Bissar has a notable background in the US Army, where he held multiple roles. He served as a Cyber Operations Officer from 2016 to 2020 in the Augusta, Georgia Area, and as a Data Management Officer from 2020 to 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. His military experience provided him with a strong foundation in data management and cyber operations, which he has leveraged in his subsequent roles.
Education and Expertise
Blaze Bissar holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he studied from 2012 to 2016. He furthered his education by obtaining a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, completing his studies from 2018 to 2021. His academic background, combined with professional experience, has equipped him with expertise in operating systems, high-performance CPU architectures, compilers, and embedded system optimizations.
Technical Skills and Projects
Blaze Bissar possesses professional experience with a range of technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, and Terraform. He has designed and built distributed cloud systems and architected enterprise-scale database consolidation. Additionally, he was part of the primary engineering and operational support team for multiple large distributed software applications and storage infrastructure systems, and he built and deployed a next-generation network monitoring and intrusion detection tool.