Christopher Blake
Learning Advocate And Software Developer
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Blake is a community-focused software engineer and learning advocate with a decade-plus track record in the energy sector and eight years of direct software experience, now building learning and certification programs at GitHub. He blends systems thinking from mechanical engineering and mechatronics with hands-on software delivery—leading inner-source initiatives, organizing cross-company portals for thousands of repos, and prototyping edge and computer-vision solutions using cloud and IoT stacks. A patient mentor and organizer, he has run SCRUM teams, founded LatinX tech committees, and consistently prioritizes upskilling to align business outcomes with individual growth. Christopher is known for inventing unexpected, practical solutions—automating engineering workflows that scaled to hundreds of field engineers and saving substantial operational costs. Based in Oklahoma City, he pairs academic research in reinforcement learning with industry experience managing large GitHub organizations and promoting developer adoption across cultural and functional boundaries.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mechatronics, Master's degree Mechatronics at Leibniz Universität HannoverBachelors of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors of Science Mechanical Engineering at Purdue UniversityMaster's degree Information Science and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Information Science and Computer Engineering at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (64)
markdown10
git10
javascript10
github10
get-started10
github-codespaces10
github-copilot10
text-formatting10
code-security10
tbd10
branches10
github-pages10
secure-coding10
copilot10
merge-conflicts10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chriswblake/osu-bh-hackathon-webapp
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Tool for managing registration, team placement, and scoring of the Oklahoma State University annual hackathon.
Contributions:31 releases, 378 commits, 146 PRs in 6 months
skills/action-text-variables
Dec 2024 - May 2026
Load a text file and replace mustache style variables. Returns modified text as an output for use in other actions.
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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