Blake Arnold
Co-Founder at Definitive
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Arnold is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience building full-stack and embedded systems, now co-founding Definitive to advance DeFi yield and execution. A former Google engineer and Coinbase senior lead, he has shipped large-scale products from Google Fit and partner integrations to Prime Broker and Retail Advanced Trade. Proficient in Java and experienced across C, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP and JavaScript, he pairs mobile and kernel-level systems knowledge with applied security interest. Equally comfortable leading teams and doing low-level kernel hacking, he brings a pragmatic blend of startup grit and enterprise-grade engineering. Based in New York, he leverages a Columbia Computer Science background and a history of diverse technical roles—from NASA mission-control tooling to LinkNYC—to tackle both infrastructure and product challenges.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (93)
protocol-buffers9
sdk9
protobuf9
grpc9
fitness9
weighted9
proto9
java9
serialization9
rpc9
client-library8
android-lint8
solidity8
monitoring8
microservices8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blakearnold/stock-picker
Mar 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
blakearnold/blakearnold.github.io
Apr 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
react
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