Blake West
Director at Warbler Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBlake West is a technology founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-scale fintech and blockchain systems from first principles. He is cofounder and CTO/Director of Heron Finance, directing the technical build of the first SEC-registered robo-advisor on-chain, and previously co-founded Goldfinch, a decentralized credit protocol servicing borrowers across 28 countries. His background includes senior backend engineering at Coinbase and scaling mission-critical payments and API infrastructure at Hint Health that processed $150M+ yearly and 2.5M+ requests/month. Blake combines product-minded engineering with operator experience—he’s launched startups, taught curriculum at Hack Reactor, and even built a widely downloaded music notation system while founding a music lessons business. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare blend of fintech, blockchain, and startup operational expertise, with a track record of turning regulatory and financial complexity into auditable, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorBS Marketing; Entrepreneurship. Minor in Music, BS Marketing; Entrepreneurship. Minor in Music at The Wharton School
English, music, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
smart-contracts10
dtw10
fastai10
monorepo10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
ethereum10
wallet9
waffle9
netsuite9
music9
nbdev9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
blakewest/performer
Sep 2013 - Dec 2018
Contributions:319 commits, 4 pushes, 5 comments in 5 years 4 months
goldfinch-eng/goldfinch-contracts
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
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