Blake Wilson
Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack at PayPal
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Wilson is a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building resilient web platforms and developer tooling. He blends hands-on frontend and backend expertise—TypeScript/React, Next.js, Java, PHP—with a strong track record in automated testing, CI/CD, and package deployment for open-source ecosystems. At WP Engine he led the creation of Faust.js, a headless WordPress framework with thousands of weekly downloads and over 1.3k GitHub stars, and refactored core React/Next packages to improve modularity and developer experience. Earlier roles include architecting automated key rotation and fault-tolerant microservices at Capital One and consolidating multi-site frontends and pipelines during a large merger. Known as an effective communicator and collaborator, he partners with senior leaders to align technical priorities with business needs. He brings a pragmatic mix of product-minded engineering and quality-first practices that consistently accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General at University of Nevada, Reno
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
javascript10
nextjs10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
headless-cms9
jsx6
html6
css6
wordpress6
database6
npm-scripts6
fetch6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wpengine/faustjs
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Faust.js™ - The Headless WordPress Framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 516 reviews, 278 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Blake primarily focused on breaking out and refactoring existing React and Next.js packages within the Faust.js framework. They developed the scaffolding for decoupled React and Next.js packages, addressing dependency imports, and including essential configurations. Furthermore, they made several fixes by modifying the import paths and adding back types in services.
reactwordpress-frameworkwordpressjavascriptfaust
blakewilson/canvas-text-block
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Easily render a wrapping block of text in an HTML Canvas Element or Node Canvas
Contributions:13 releases, 80 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 8 months
renderimagenode-canvascanvasjavascript
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