Blake Watkins
Software Engineer at Raices Peruanas
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Watkins is a full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building modern web and real-time communication systems, currently working in Los Angeles. He brings deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript ecosystems—React, Node, webRTC, WebSockets—and a track record of shipping isomorphic React apps, video communication microservices, and AWS-backed services. Blake blends practical backend skills (Postgres, Mongo, Docker, Lambda) with front-end craft, having optimized canvas/video pipelines and web worker-based performance in published libraries. Trained in linguistics and classical studies, he pairs a curiosity for language and AI with interests in VR/AR and functional programming, which informs thoughtful, user-centric designs. Outside of code he’s an avid surfer and family man, and his background leading large teams in a clinical setting gives him uncommon empathy and operational discipline.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics and Classical Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics and Classical Studies at UCSC
French, Latin
Github Skills (66)
zero-configuration10
api10
developer-tools10
build-tools10
create-react-app10
react10
todoist9
coc-nvim9
vim-plugin9
vim9
lua9
nvim9
neovim9
text-editor9
adapter9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
team-genjutsu/miragejs
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:145 commits, 42 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 month
apiwebrtcabilityconnectionanimations
blkwtkns/dotblk
Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:152 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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