Blake Embrey
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBlake Embrey is a seasoned software engineer and manager with 13 years of experience building scalable, resilient data and API systems from the front end to core services. Based in San Francisco, he has driven major data infrastructure and partner APIs at Opendoor—leading a small team to replace legacy systems, improve address/data pipelines, and support market scaling. He pairs hands-on engineering with operational rigor, focusing on reducing SEVs, documenting surface area, and migrating monoliths to microservices. An active open-source contributor, Blake has improved widely used projects like Express, Handlebars, Bootstrap, Stylus, and TypeScript tooling, often tackling core library refactors, compiler/runtime issues, and test coverage. He’s equally comfortable shipping UI fixes and deep back-end work, with a recurring interest in knowledge-as-data, open APIs, and quantified self tooling. Not obvious from his manager title: he continues to contribute substantial compiler, tooling, and library improvements across languages and ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (96)
atom-editor10
parserator10
url-routing10
parser10
postgresql10
expressjs10
operation10
json-schema10
testing10
array-merge10
stylus10
automation10
array-iterator10
bootstra10
tslint10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
typings/registry
Nov 2015 - Jun 2017
The registry of type definitions for TypeScript
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:393 commits, 720 PRs, 554 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Blake primarily focused on enhancing the testing framework for the TypeScript type definition registry. They implemented JSON schema validation, added tests for the installation of typings alongside the test suite, and introduced features like running tests on changed files only. They also refactored the test runner to utilize `typings-core` directly, and incorporated improved error handling and file path management within the tests.
typescript
blakeembrey/change-case
Apr 2013 - Dec 2020
Convert strings between camelCase, PascalCase, Capital Case, snake_case and more
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 releases, 9 reviews, 100 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Blake primarily contributed to the `change-case` repository by implementing and refining string conversion methods. Their work involved adding new functionalities, specifically the `switchCase` method, and refactoring existing code for improved readability and efficiency. The user also updated the documentation and improved the test suite, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability. The contributions centered around core functionality and included changes to both the core library code and associated tests.
camelcasecamel-casepascal-casechange-casesnake-case
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