Blake Thomson
Software Engineer at Airtable
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBlake Thomson is a software engineer based in Oakland with over a decade of experience building product-driven systems for online media and platform teams. Currently on Airtable’s Platform Ecosystem team, he brings deep Ruby and JavaScript expertise across browser and server environments, and actively experiments with Go, Rust, and Elixir to broaden system design options. His career at Vox Media progressed from individual contributor to Chief Architect, reflecting a blend of hands-on shipping and technical leadership in distributed, collaborative applications. Blake is particularly interested in APIs and developer-facing platforms, framing engineering choices around product impact and team velocity. He pairs a University of Washington engineering background with a practical curiosity for new languages and runtime trade-offs that inform scalable, maintainable architectures.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
javascript9
airtable9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
Airtable/blocks
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 tags in 2 years 8 months
Airtable/airtable.js
Mar 2022 - May 2023
Airtable javascript client
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
airtablejavascript
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