Blaine Hatab
CEO at Distru
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBlaine Hatab is a CEO and seasoned product-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and founding multiple startups. Based in Boston, he leads Distru, a SaaS platform for cannabis inventory, orders and distribution, while bringing deep Rails, React and Webpack expertise from roles at ShakaCode and open-source contributions like improving server-side React+Rails integration. He pairs a mechanical engineering and math background with hands-on architecture and UX sensibilities, often removing unnecessary dependencies and simplifying build workflows to improve developer productivity. A repeat founder who prototypes rapidly and ships end-to-end products, Blaine blends technical craftsmanship with practical business instincts to turn complex operational problems into usable software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering/Math, BS Mechanical Engineering/Math at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering and Math, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering and Math at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
rails10
webpack10
ruby10
webpacker10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
coffeescript9
redux9
forms9
asset-pipeline6
heroku6
dns6
heroku-deployment6
phoenix-framework6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shakacode/react_on_rails
Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
Integration of React + Webpack + Rails + rails/webpacker including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 16 PRs, 102 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Blaine primarily focused on improving the integration of React with Rails and Webpack, specifically related to server-side rendering. They made changes to the configuration files, helper methods, and generators to improve the development workflow, including reloading server bundles and simplifying the build process. The user also removed dependencies like jQuery and lodash, and adjusted the webpack configuration. Further contributions involved refactoring and cleaning up documentation.
rails-viewsreact-webpackredux-sagaruby-gemshakacode
OfficeStack/OpenSkedge2
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 4 months
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