Blake Turner
Vice President Product Engineering at Regrow Ag
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBlake Turner is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of software experience who currently serves as Vice President Product Engineering at Regrow Ag, focusing on resilient, cost-efficient climate tech platforms. He has repeatedly led teams through scale-ups, pivots, org reductions, and platform rebuilds, combining technical rigor with clear communication to drive high-trust, high-output organizations. Blake’s leadership is values-driven and process-minded—he builds systems that make growth and feedback unavoidable while holding teams to high standards in both craft and collaboration. His background as a professional theatre artist informs a distinctive management style: theatrical discipline for deadlines, collaborative rehearsal for execution, and a knack for storytelling that aligns product and engineering. Based in Vancouver, he balances strategic leadership with hands-on coaching, helping engineers ship impactful software for mission-driven companies.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree (except for 2 Calculus courses) Computer Science, Associate's degree (except for 2 Calculus courses) Computer Science at Langara CollegeDiploma Theatre/Theatre Arts Management, Diploma Theatre/Theatre Arts Management at Grant Macewan University
French, English
Github Skills (56)
benchmark9
security9
gatsby9
react9
gatsbyjs9
graphql9
compiler8
adp8
static-site-generator8
preact7
dom7
unit-test7
invoke6
react-component6
to-do6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
redacademy/gandalf-validator
Aug 2017 - May 2018
✨ Determines who shall and shall not pass form validation in React (and React Native)
Contributions:10 commits, 13 PRs, 35 pushes in 8 months
form-validationreactreact-nativered-skunkz
BenchLabs/bench-technology-handbook
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
The Bench Technology Handbook
Contributions:13 reviews, 91 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 3 months
benchmarkhandbookbench
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