Blake Thomas
Technology Consultant at Freelance
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Thomas is a seasoned technology consultant and engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale web and education platforms. He has led engineering organizations through rapid change—driving adoption of Haskell, Kubernetes, and cloud-native practices while keeping teacher-and-student-facing systems reliable at scale. Blake combines deep full-stack fluency (from Python, Ruby/Rails and Node to Go, Elixir, and Rust-adjacent ecosystems) with strong operational chops across AWS, Kafka, Docker, and CI/CD tooling. He’s known for practical execution under pressure—architecting migrations, compliance projects, and apprenticeship programs that measurably improved quality and delivery. A self-described “jovial introvert,” he blends executive-level decision-making with ongoing hands-on contribution, recently focusing on AI research assistant work within product teams.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Oklahoma School of Science and MathematicsMathematics, Mathematics at University of Chicago
English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
sidekiq9
ruby9
background-processing9
background-service9
redis7
job-scheduler7
background-worker7
asynchronous-tasks7
job-queue7
resque7
queue7
parse5
cron4
health4
monitor3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
enova/sidekiq-apriori
Nov 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
bwthomas/whedon
Jun 2013 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
ruby-gemlinesrubygemcron
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