Summary
Blake Barrett is a Principal Engineer with 12+ years building cross-platform mobile and embedded software, currently driving engineering at GSM Outdoors from San Francisco. He has led mobile efforts at companies from Salesforce.org and Pandora to Astra and Zero Labs Automotive, shipping native iOS/Android apps, EV digital gauges, and cross-platform Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform projects. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, Blake repeatedly refactors and documents legacy codebases, introduces pragmatic architecture changes, and teaches mobile development courses to cultivate engineering talent. He’s an entrepreneur who open-sources his personal projects—ranging from a GPS app to a GPT-3 chatbot—and has proven ability to turn greenfield ideas into production-grade products. Motivated by work that benefits people, the environment, and the arts, he blends product-focused delivery with a preference for community-building and meaningful impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at California State University, Fresno
English, Spanish