Blake Hilscher
Software Developer at Downroot Digital Inc
Courtice, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Hilscher is a software developer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating high-RPM Ruby on Rails systems that process hundreds of millions of interactions per day. He designs full-stack SaaS products and their infrastructure—auto-scaling app servers, sharded Postgres, Redis, and SolrCloud clusters—while dogfooding APIs to ensure parity between UI and service. Comfortable across AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, Route53) and telephony stacks (OpenSIPS, FreeSWITCH, Plivo, Twilio), he focuses on resilience, automated failover, and continuous delivery. Blake combines deep scaling expertise with data analysis and TDD-driven development, and his mountaineering hobby hints at a methodical, endurance-minded approach to complex problems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Toronto
French, English
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (28)
ruby-client10
transform6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
karabiner6
ruby6
stow5
parse5
hammerspoon5
cookbook4
image4
api4
vim4
datadog3
zsh3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
blakehilscher/gallerize
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 5 pushes in 8 months
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quandl/quandl_data
Jun 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:131 commits in 11 months
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