Summary
Blake Hyde is a pragmatic lead software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native, high-throughput systems across startups and enterprises. He blends hands-on implementation (Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript) with platform engineering—CI/CD, Kubernetes, ArgoCD and serverless GCP—while driving observability and secure service-to-service authorization. Known for digging until he finds the single root cause, Blake pairs that curiosity with product-minded questioning to reveal real requirements and deliver elegant, simple designs. He has led payment, billing, and authorization migrations, built BigQuery ETLs and transactional APIs, and delivered production services on EKS and GCP. Based in the Charlotte area, he mentors engineers and codifies deployment and monitoring patterns to reduce operational friction. An English BA by training, he brings clear communication and disciplined design to complex technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B.A. English, B.A. English at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, French, Spanish, Vietnamese