Blake Vente
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Vente is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Audible with nine years of experience building customer-facing websites and resilient backend services using Java, React/TypeScript, and AWS. He blends applied machine learning research in NLP and explainability with production engineering, having implemented reproducible experiments at Columbia and shipped data pipelines and customer service applications at Amazon. Blake has a strong foundation in teaching and automation—he automated grading systems for large courses and built tooling to streamline scoring and reporting for tutoring programs—demonstrating an emphasis on reproducibility, observability, and developer ergonomics. A published writer and podcast creator, he bridges technical depth and clear communication, aiming to make the world’s knowledge more accessible through explainable models and open research.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Advanced Regents Diploma Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, International Baccalaureate Advanced Regents Diploma Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Brooklyn LatinMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York
Spanish, Haitian Creole
Github Skills (47)
python10
animation10
gatsbyjs8
assertion8
react7
mathematical-expressions6
mypy6
type-safety6
strongly-typed6
configurations5
latex5
railway-oriented-programming5
machine-learning4
functional-programming4
pipeline4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rvente/dotfiles
Jun 2017 - Nov 2021
Dotfiles for my configs
Contributions:1 PR, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
vimconfigsdotfileshammerspoonzsh
rvente/TeXNet.ai
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
im2latex solution: Transcribe mathematical expressions from screenshots using machine learning.
Contributions:58 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
machine-learningmathematical-expressions
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