Blake Thompson
Technical Sourcing Recruiter at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Thompson is a Technical Sourcing Recruiter with 13 years of experience building relationships across talent, hiring managers, and leadership, currently staffing critical roles for AWS CloudWatch Logs. He combines an outgoing, candidate-first approach with deep experience recruiting software engineers and managers for high-impact cloud services. Prior roles include cleared recruiting for government agencies and full lifecycle hiring at TEKsystems, giving him strong expertise in technical and security-sensitive hiring processes. Beyond recruiting, Blake has a hands-on background contributing to open-source mapping and OAuth projects—work that shows an ability to engage with complex technical codebases and specifications. Based in Oklahoma, he leverages both people skills and technical literacy to bridge engineering teams and top-tier talent. Blake is focused on expanding his network and continuously developing recruiting craft while supporting some of the most important services on the internet.
13 years of coding experience
W.T. Woodson High SchoolBachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Marketing, Senior, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Marketing, Senior at James Madison University
Github Skills (41)
git10
tiff10
rasterizer10
c-language10
ras10
rasterize10
python10
raster10
image-processing10
django10
protocol-buffers10
vector-tiles10
mapnik10
flask-ask10
rasterizing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/vector-tile-spec
Jul 2015 - Dec 2020
Mapbox Vector Tile specification
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 70 commits, 34 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Blake primarily contributed to the project by modifying and refining the specification documentation in the `vector-tile-spec` repository. Their work included adding comments clarifying the required status of the extent field, removing deprecated features, and removing detailed descriptions in the protofile to encourage reading the specification itself. They also initiated the creation of the 2.1 version of the specification by adding the initial protofile.
mapbox-vector-tile
mapbox/mapnik-vector-tile
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Mapnik implemention of Mapbox Vector Tile specification
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:334 commits, 81 PRs, 292 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Blake contributed to the implementation of raster support within vector tiles, focusing on adding single-band support using image data types. Their work included modifications to the `vector_tile_processor.hpp` file to incorporate grayscale options and address linking problems related to `save_to_string` in Mapnik. They also added new grayscale datatypes and made changes to improve efficiency, such as using getRowSize instead of manually specifying row sizes and updating buffer sizes.
mapbox-vector-tilemapnik
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