Blaine Schanfeldt is an Infrastructure Software Engineer at Instacart, where he's part of the SRE team—and has helped scale the platform to support over 350,000 active users. He's an architect, a thinker, a researcher, a tester, and a tinkerer. He designs and builds scalable data-intensive applications. Much of his work is focused on payments, shipping, image processing, and machine learning applications. He wears many hats.