Blake Vanlandingham
VP Of Engineering at Canary Technologies
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Vanlandingham is a VP of Engineering with 14 years of experience leading product-driven teams and scaling engineering organizations from senior engineer to executive roles. Based in Overland Park, Kansas, he has a track record at Canary Technologies—rising from Senior Software Engineer to VP—and prior senior engineering experience at Google. Blake combines hands-on backend expertise (notably contributing source map support and tests to a Rails-style asset pipeline for Node.js) with strategic leadership in fast-moving startups and mid-size companies. He focuses on improving developer experience, reliability, and delivery cadence while mentoring engineering managers and shaping technical roadmaps. Blake holds a Computer Science degree from Kansas State University and is comfortable switching between shipping code and running engineering operations. An engineer who still dives into repo-level fixes, he brings pragmatic technical depth to executive decision-making.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Kansas State University
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
nodejs10
sourcemaps10
asset-pipeline10
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
js-kyle/connect-assets
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
A Rails-style asset pipeline for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 13 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Blake focused on enhancing the functionality of the asset pipeline for Node.js. They implemented source map serving, which involved modifying the asset serving logic to handle requests for source map files and setting appropriate headers. They also cleaned up code and added tests to ensure that source maps are correctly served. Further contributions included modifying the defaults for source maps, changing them from off in production to on in development.
sourcemapspipelinerailsnode-jsruby
blakevanlan/KingdomCreator
Dec 2013 - Jan 2023
Deck randomizer for Dominion
Contributions:1 review, 265 commits, 72 PRs in 9 years 2 months
javascriptdominionrandomizerdeck
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