Summary
Blake Beaupain is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, fault-tolerant systems across cloud and on-prem environments. He’s built everything from high-performance GPU compute PaaS in Tier 4 datacenters to compact, high-throughput data ingestion services that cut code by 98% and improved performance nearly tenfold. Comfortable leading both hands-on implementation and executive-level planning, Blake has driven cross-functional wins at companies like Thrive Global, Nacelle, and Slalom, including measurable conversion lifts and major migrations. He blends systems architecture, distributed services (Go, gRPC, Kafka), and pragmatic product focus to deliver maintainable platforms that users and businesses value. Based in Tacoma, WA, he enjoys solving infrastructure-first problems and has a track record of rolling up his sleeves to provision hardware, negotiate partnerships, and ship production systems end-to-end.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pierce College at Puyallup
Computer Science, Computer Science at Highline College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Columbia Basin College
English, German