Blake Burgess
Technical Lead at Docxedo
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Burgess is a Technical Lead based in Christchurch, New Zealand with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating full-stack and AI-driven software systems. He combines pragmatic engineering—Angular/C#/Azure stacks, distributed systems, and automation—with a leadership style focused on clear communication, tooling, and continuous improvement. Blake has moved from tutoring and academic research into production-grade software and now leads development of docxedo.ai, applying applied ML and LLM agents to streamline legal document styling. Known for teaching as much as learning, he blends academic rigor with real-world delivery, frequently taking ownership across the full SDLC from architecture to incident response. Secretly turned professional AI hobbyist, he fluently bridges code, machine learning, and prompt-driven systems to help teams ship reliable, evolving products.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at University of OtagoOpihi College
English
Github Skills (12)
web-application6
python5
webapp5
http4
robotics3
wsgi3
addin3
typescript2
screeps2
iis1
csharp1
werkzeug1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
blbu/blbu.github.io
Feb 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
blbu/squash-test
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Testing squash commits in PRs
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 7 months
commitspythonsquashtestingsquash-commits
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