Blake Faris
Software Engineer Contractor at Thrivent
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Faris is a versatile software engineer contractor with 13 years of experience delivering full-stack solutions across e-commerce, healthcare, and enterprise platforms. He combines deep Java/Spring expertise with front-end React work and operational know-how in DevOps, Kafka, Docker, and monitoring stacks to move features from design to production quickly. Known for cross-system thinking, Blake focuses on placing designs in the right part of the architecture and then guiding teams to implement them, rather than assigning blame. He has led migrations (Salesforce Commerce Cloud), built performant microservices, and driven test-driven documentation and observability at companies like Bluestem, Prime Therapeutics, and Thrivent. Comfortable working through organizational friction, he listens, adapts, and earns trust to push positive, company-wide engineering practices. Based in Minnesota with a computer engineering degree from Iowa State, he brings a rare blend of technical breadth, systems-level judgment, and persistent delivery focus.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (2)
javascript3
react3
Github contributions (5)
blakefaris/IonicCameraPluginDemo
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
blakefaris/readinglist
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Sticking my reading list todo here (it is not all reading...).
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
javascriptreacttodo-listtodo
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