Blake Blackshear
Chief Product Officer at Concert Genetics
Franklin, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Blackshear is a hands-on product and technology executive with 13 years scaling a healthcare startup from its first employee to Chief Product Officer, blending deep engineering craft with business-driven product strategy. He has led Kubernetes architecture and migration, built and maintained a HIPAA-aligned security program with continuous HITRUST certification since 2016, and serves as executive sponsor for major health plan customers focused on genetic testing reimbursement. Blake combines domain expertise in genetics and medical coding with pragmatic software engineering—authoring a billing-code engine for the genetic testing market and developing realtime AI video processing at the edge (Frigate). He favors simple, low-complexity solutions that remove business friction rather than merely layering technology, and he pairs that ethos with practical DevOps and CI/CD experience evidenced in Home Assistant/Frigate integrations and addons. Based in Franklin, TN, he balances technical leadership with hands-on development and a maker’s curiosity, often building custom home automation projects that double as family tech education.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Engineering, Bachelors Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (27)
github-ci10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
home-assistant-integration10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
api10
home-assistant10
githubaction-workflow10
aiohttp10
mqttnet9
mqtt9
streaming9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
blakeblackshear/frigate-hass-addons
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Frigate hass.io addons
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 71 commits, 86 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Blake's contributions primarily revolve around setting up and configuring the development environment and CI/CD pipelines for Home Assistant addons related to Frigate. They implemented scripts to start and stop Docker, install dependencies, and manage supervisor environments, including the setup of proxy services. The user also made changes to the supervisor configuration and nginx setup for the proxy addon. The commits indicate an understanding of Docker and Home Assistant addon development workflow.
hassjavascriptfrigateaddons
blakeblackshear/frigate-hass-integration
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Frigate integration for Home Assistant
Role in this project:Back-end & Full-stack Developer
Back-end & Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 13 reviews, 121 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Blake's contributions primarily involve developing the backend API and extending the existing features. Their work includes modifying the API client, and extending the media source to include recordings. Further modifications were made in adding support for camera entities. The user also contributed to improvements in the media browser, incorporating new functionality, better titles, and additional drill-downs for events.
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