Blake Watkins
Senior Software Engineer at Amway
Hudsonville, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Watkins is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in backend systems, distributed architecture, and cloud-native microservices on AWS. He has designed cross-system security services for AuthN/AuthZ, built real-time eventing pipelines with Spring Boot and Apache Kafka, and led a modernization effort to decompose monoliths into scalable microservices. Proficient in Java and SQL with intermediate skills in Python and TypeScript, he also architects databases and NoSQL solutions to support mission-critical workloads. A former Cryptologic Language Analyst in the U.S. Air Force, Blake brings disciplined operational leadership—he’s led teams of up to 20 analysts—and a knack for developer onboarding, having created a multi-service ramp process that shortens time-to-productivity. Based in Hudsonville, Michigan, he blends security-conscious design with practical delivery to move high-impact systems into production.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Augusta University
Github Skills (12)
spring-rest7
spring-rest-docs6
rest-api-documentation6
openapi-documentation5
spring5
api4
java4
spring-boot4
specification4
api-specification3
openapi3
rest3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
MonoidalAttackTrees/Lina
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes in 5 months
blakewatkins/part_three
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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