Blake Simpson
Lead Engineer at Studia
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBlake Simpson is a Lead Engineer and founder with 13 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile apps using React/React Native, TypeScript, Node.js and Ruby on Rails, complemented by strong AWS and DevOps skills. He has progressed from single-developer projects to leading and scaling teams of 10+ across the UK and Germany, blending technical delivery with hiring and product-aligned technical strategy. Blake has repeatedly shipped consumer-facing apps (photo-sharing/printing) and enterprise integrations (ERP connectors), demonstrating versatility across startups and larger orgs. He currently runs freelance and founding ventures while leading engineering at Studia, showing an appetite for both shipping code and building organisations. Known for pragmatic full-stack engineering, he often bridges frontend UX and backend API design to accelerate time-to-market. An avid learner, he pairs production experience with a continual focus on modern stacks and cloud-native deployment practices.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Web Design and Development, Web Development, BSc (Hons) Web Design and Development, Web Development at Abertay University
English, German
Github Skills (105)
mobile-development10
testing10
app-framework10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
react10
hanami9
javascript9
gatsby9
angular9
html9
chrome-plugin9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
blake-simpson/expo-jwt
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
Encode and decode JSON Web Tokens (JWT) in an Expo based React Native project.
Contributions:8 reviews, 4 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 1 month
reacttokensreact-nativejwt-tokensencode
BlakeSimpson/Website
Jan 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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