Blake Simpson
Senior Engineer at Rearc
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Simpson is a Senior Engineer with about 6 years of hands-on experience building and operating enterprise platforms, currently focused at Rearc after a multi-role tenure at Dow Jones. He combines cloud and systems architecture skills—AWS, Splunk, Chef, New Relic and more—with practical cost- and efficiency-driven product changes that have reduced spend and improved developer adoption. A clear communicator and educator, Blake has delivered internal training and presentations and previously taught science and mathematics at the university level, bringing pedagogical rigor to technical onboarding. His background in psychology, mathematics, and computational neuroscience gives him a distinctive systems-thinking approach to observability and incident management. Based in the New York City area, he pairs operational depth with a track record of driving measurable improvements in enterprise environments.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of North Carolina at CharlotteBachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology/Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology/Neuroscience at Appalachian State UniversityComputational Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience at Florida Atlantic University
Github Skills (6)
encode8
decode8
jwt5
react5
json5
react-native4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
blake-simpson/expo-jwt
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Encode and decode JSON Web Tokens (JWT) in an Expo based React Native project.
Contributions:2 commits in 5 months
reacttokensreact-nativejwt-tokensencode
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