Summary
Blake Walters is a product-focused engineering leader with 16 years of experience scaling teams and platforms from seed-stage startups to hyper-growth companies. As Head of Engineering at ScreenSteps and former VP of Engineering at Prefect, he has driven major product launches, revenue-generating self-serve offerings, and enterprise self-hosted products while maintaining SOC 2 Type II compliance and 99.9%+ uptime. He’s proven at reorganizing engineering for predictable delivery—shifting ad hoc development into disciplined agile practices—and at reducing infrastructure costs through architectural modernization. Previously at CircleCI he grew the org from 50 to 250+ engineers and launched data, developer experience, and AI/ML initiatives, and at HashiCorp he was an early engineer helping lay the foundation for HCP. Based in Longmont, Colorado, Blake blends hands-on technical depth with a passion for autonomy, accountability, and building teams that translate product strategy into measurable business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri