Blake Sanie
Principal Associate Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Sanie is a Senior Associate Software Engineer based in Chicago with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and data pipelines, currently advancing core card-account processing at Capital One. He combines strong backend expertise in Go, Kafka, serverless architectures and CDC with practical ML experience from prior internships—boosting petabyte-scale sensitive data detection to 99% using transformer-based models. Blake has a track record of tripling streaming throughput, founding framework-level contributions, and reducing large-scale sync times by 80x through thoughtful rearchitecture and platformization. He is also an experienced educator and organizer from Georgia Tech, having led AI course operations and dramatically reduced plagiarism via technical countermeasures. Known for bridging architecture and delivery, he regularly authors tooling, runs knowledge transfers, and mentors interns to scale team capability beyond individual features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMenlo-Atherton High School
French, Persian, English
Github Skills (35)
react9
continuity9
apple-watch8
nextjs8
integral8
infinity8
calculus7
squash7
camera6
derivative6
bar-code6
genetic-algorithm5
face-detection5
neurons4
react-native4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blakesanie/blakesanie
Aug 2020 - Oct 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 15894 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
afxwong/EarlyExitNet
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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