Blake K
Software Engineer III at VERISIGN
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Khan is a pragmatic software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience and an MS in Computer Science, currently building highly available, low-latency cloud-native REST APIs at Verisign. He focuses on backend development, infrastructure-as-code, and improving developer experience, regularly applying Java, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS to production systems. Blake has a track record of owning visible products end-to-end—examples include live zero-downtime data migrations and designing scalable architectures for critical internet infrastructure. He pairs an engineer’s attention to detail with cross-team mentorship and hiring outreach, having mentored interns and represented Verisign at career fairs. Outside core engineering, he’s unusually enthusiastic about credit cards, finance, and DNS, and brings practical ML/LLM curiosity to operational problems. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he blends product ownership with a penchant for reliable, well-instrumented systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Studies Diploma, Advanced Studies Diploma at Grafton High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at George Mason University
English
Github Skills (20)
minecraft10
bungeecord8
voice8
proxy-server7
spigot7
relay7
bukkit6
spotify5
java5
react4
swift2
http1
vscode1
microservices1
protobuf1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
heyimblake/HiveRanks
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 32 commits, 3 PRs in 9 months
minecraftbukkit-pluginhivemcbukkitspigot
heyimblake/heyimblake.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 284 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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