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 (23)
git10
javascript10
get-started10
branches10
copilot10
gh-extension9
decision-tree8
cli8
github8
reinforcement-learning8
evaluation8
golang7
machine-learning7
3d7
3d-printing7
Programming languages (5)
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
chriswblake/Reinforcement-Learning-Based-Decision-Tree
Apr 2018 - May 2019
Generation and evaluation of a decision tree using reinforcement learning.
Contributions:94 commits, 2 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 2 months
decision-treedecisionreinforcement-learningevaluationmachine-learning
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