Blake R
Staff Software Engineer at Imagine Learning
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake R is a Staff Software Engineer in the Greater Phoenix Area who specializes in architecting cloud platforms, distributed systems, and production-grade developer tooling. Over five years at Imagine Learning he led the Internal Developer Platform initiative, cutting deploy time by 80%, saving roughly $1M annually, and improving reliability and security for hundreds of engineers. He has hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps experience and has built internal Generative AI tooling to boost developer productivity and enforce org-wide GenAI standards. An active backend contributor to the popular Backstage open-source project, he’s improved task worker reliability and restart behavior—details that reflect his focus on resilient, operational systems. Blake combines SRE instincts with platform engineering leadership, and his background ranges from multi-OS CLI tooling to production monitoring that drove 99% uptime.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science with a Focus in Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science with a Focus in Software Engineering at Southern New Hampshire UniversitySoftware Engineering Immersive, Software Engineering Immersive at General AssemblyAssociate of Science - AS, Biology, General, Associate of Science - AS, Biology, General at Northern Essex Community College
Github Skills (9)
task-management10
typescript10
typescripts10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
backstage9
microservices8
javascript8
microservices-application8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Blake primarily focused on backend tasks within the Backstage framework. Their commits involved modifying task worker implementations, specifically in `LocalTaskWorker.ts` and `TaskWorker.ts` files, related to task management and execution. The changes included refactoring task worker logic by converting to loops and adjusting error handling and sleep durations within the task worker processes. They also added and adjusted restarting mechanisms.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
blakeromano/flutter
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
A fun social media/dating website using NodeJS, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose, and EJS!
Contributions:1 review, 61 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 month
ejsexpressjsexpress-mongodbjavascriptexpress
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