Blake Knight
Sr. Engineer, Frontend at Zapier
Tupelo, Mississippi, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Knight is a senior front-end engineer with 11 years of experience building performant React and React Native clients backed by Node.js and GraphQL, currently shaping user experiences at Zapier. He pairs a strong academic foundation (MS in Information Systems, 4.0 GPA) with hands-on full-stack skills—managing Linux servers, designing relational and document databases, and building real-time dashboards and native device controllers. At GS&F he drove developer productivity and hosting strategy improvements that cut project startup times and optimized web performance, and he’s shipped low-latency geolocation and industrial IoT apps. Based in Tupelo, Mississippi, Blake thrives on continual learning and mentoring, bringing curiosity from hobbies like FPV drone builds and gardening into pragmatic problem solving. He’s equally comfortable architecting backend systems and polishing delightful client-facing interactions, with a knack for translating complex requirements into fast, maintainable products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Double major: Management Information Systems and Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Double major: Management Information Systems and Marketing at University of MississippiMaster of Science (MS), Information Systems, 4.0 GPA, Master of Science (MS), Information Systems, 4.0 GPA at Mississippi State University
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gsandf/create-root-schema
May 2018 - Jul 2020
🌿 Combines schemas and types to help you modularize your GraphQL service
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 2 months
nexusgraphql-servicegraphqlschemastypescript
gsandf/eslint-config-gsandf
Apr 2017 - Aug 2021
GS&F's extendable ESLint configuration (full config with dependencies)
Contributions:3 releases, 51 commits, 22 PRs in 4 years 4 months
dependencieseslintjavascripteslint-configconfig
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