Blake Hall
Software Engineer III at COFENSE
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Hall is a seasoned full‑stack software engineer with 15 years of experience building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications and modern JavaScript frontends. Currently a Software Engineer III at Cofense, he previously drove manufacturing and internal tooling initiatives at Framebridge, balancing new feature work with performance and data model debt reduction in a Rails monolith. His background spans startups, civic tech, and larger product teams—including UserTesting and GoDaddy—and reflects a consistent focus on pragmatic, production-ready engineering. A Kentuckian and civic-minded hacker, he has roots in Code for America and early civic platforms, which inform his attention to real-world integrations and operational reliability. Known as a Rubyist who adapts to “the JS framework of the week,” Blake combines deep Rails expertise with a willingness to experiment across the stack.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Kentucky
Github Skills (18)
linux8
ruby-wrapper7
district7
sounds6
coders5
authentication5
broadband5
http-api5
javascript4
redux4
api4
react4
docker3
saml3
ruby3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openlexington/lex_underutil
Nov 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
mapproperties
blakeshall/whats_my_district_redux
Feb 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
turfturf-jsclient-sidejavascriptremake
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