Blake Whitham
Senior Software Engineer at Wells Fargo
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Whitham is a Senior Software Engineer in California with five years of full-stack experience delivering high-performance web applications for enterprise clients and major platforms. He builds scalable systems across React front-ends and Node.js-backed services, with hands-on experience optimizing databases (ArangoDB, PostgreSQL), AWS deployments, and performance testing to handle millions of records. At Wells Fargo he led React development with strong test coverage and accessibility focus, and he’s driven backend optimizations that cut query times and improved throughput by nearly 40%. He pairs practical mentorship—having taught and mentored cohorts at Galvanize—with an emphasis on clean, test-driven code and deployable architecture. Outside of work he applies the same persistence to off-grid construction and rock climbing, reflecting a pragmatic, hands-on problem-solving style. He’s motivated to turn curiosity and steady iteration into disruptive, world-bettering software.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering immersive, Full Stack JavaScript, Advanced Software Engineering immersive, Full Stack JavaScript at Hack ReactorPre-Graduate, Philosophy, Pre-Graduate, Philosophy at Diablo Valley CollegeRobotics Programming, Computer Science, Robotics Programming, Computer Science at Las Lomas High School
English
Github Skills (7)
css1
php1
javascript1
frontend1
capstone1
portal1
retail1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Blake-Whitham/PopCorn_next
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
davinchideco/PostCard
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:51 commits in 11 days
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