Blake Hitchcock
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Security at Instacart
Nashville Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBlake Hitchcock is a Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on infrastructure security, secure architecture, and pragmatic problem-solving across the stack, with 13 years of experience building and hardening services in Go and Ruby. He has led security engineering at high-growth fintech and commerce companies, including Marqeta and Instacart, bringing production-grade secure design, penetration testing skills, and applied cryptography to distributed systems and container orchestration. Earlier work at Cisco includes architecting and open-sourcing a security assessment platform and creating tooling to embed secure development practices. Blake combines hands-on service development with red-team techniques, routinely translating exploit findings into developer education and automated defenses. Based in the Nashville area, he maintains an active personal code snapshot on GitHub/GitLab that reflects a curiosity for tooling and infrastructure automation beyond his day job.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Tennessee-Knoxville
English
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Github Skills (123)
secrets10
vault10
hashicorp-vault9
content-security-policy9
html9
security9
ruby9
mvc9
encryption9
headers9
hsts9
rails9
cookie9
gitlab9
defaults8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rbhitchcock/instagram-live
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:74 commits in 1 month
marqeta/go-dfd
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 14 PRs in 3 months
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