Blake Nahin
First Officer at Allegiant
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Nahin is an Airline Transport Pilot and First Officer for Allegiant with nine years of experience blending professional aviation with full‑stack web development and server administration. He operates Airbus A319/A320 aircraft in Part 121 operations while drawing on prior roles as a flight instructor, check examiner, and flight operations supervisor that emphasize safety, training, and operational coordination. Outside the cockpit he has built and maintained web services and APIs—most notably managing data services and the vatusa.net platform—bringing practical backend and DevOps skills to aviation-focused systems. Based in Las Vegas, he also tutors STEM subjects and has acted as a standardized patient, showing strong communication, teaching aptitude, and an unusual crossover of technical, instructional, and human-centered experience.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Aeronautical Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aeronautical Science at University of North DakotaBachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
816reputation
46kreached
35answers
5questions
Github Skills (26)
restful-api9
laravel9
status-page9
php9
api9
restful9
rest-api9
discord-bot8
discord7
html6
database6
responsive-design6
css6
user-interface6
ternary-operator6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VATUSA/discord-bot
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Discord bot for the official VATUSA Discord.
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 years 6 months
discorddiscord-bot
VATUSA/forums
Jul 2018 - Aug 2021
SMF forums with VATUSA edits
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 1 month
forumsvatusasmf
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