Chuck Blake
Fractional CTO & AI Product Lead at Arwen
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChuck Blake is a pragmatic technology leader and advisor with nine years of formal experience and a 20+ year track record of building products, teams, and go-to-market motion at the intersection of business and engineering. He has led operations and product strategy that turned consulting work into funded SaaS—helping secure $6.8M in fundraising and generating $1.5M+ in DoD SBIR revenue—while hiring and scaling engineering teams rapidly. A hands-on builder and former CTO/co-founder, Chuck specializes in problem shaping, context curation, and architecting AI agent orchestration in the current era, with a keen sense of product taste before markets mature. He excels at operating in ambiguity: negotiating contracts, defining roadmaps, and instituting processes (OKRs, performance reviews, developer relations) that save time and headcount. Based in New York, he remains an adviser to startups like Wallaroo Labs and AgencyDocs, blending executive judgment with a do-what-it-takes execution style. An uncommon strength is his ability to know when not to apply AI agents—balancing technical possibility with pragmatic business value.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The altMBA is an intensive, online workshop designed to accelerate leaders who are change agents for the future designed by Seth Godin: https://altmba.com/about
Founded in 2015 by bestselling author Seth Godin. In 2016, students from 27 countries worldwide participated.
Each session of the workshop is led by a cadre of coaches, who engage with students in individual and group work. During the workshop, each student publishes the results of the 13 assigned projects on the public altMBA site. The program is synchronous, with regular deadlines, group discussions, and face-to-face video calls. It is entirely based online.
Attending students include, managers and leaders at large organizations, as well as entrepreneurs and freelancers. We also invite rising leaders of important NGOs or brands including Kickstarter, Nike, Microsoft, Lululemon, PwC, Johnson & Johnson, Whole Foods, Coca-Cola, Hallmark, Chobani, The Red Cross, Sony, charity:water, and more., The altMBA is an intensive, online workshop designed to accelerate leaders who are change agents for the future designed by Seth Godin: https://altmba.com/about
Founded in 2015 by bestselling author Seth Godin. In 2016, students from 27 countries worldwide participated.
Each session of the workshop is led by a cadre of coaches, who engage with students in individual and group work. During the workshop, each student publishes the results of the 13 assigned projects on the public altMBA site. The program is synchronous, with regular deadlines, group discussions, and face-to-face video calls. It is entirely based online.
Attending students include, managers and leaders at large organizations, as well as entrepreneurs and freelancers. We also invite rising leaders of important NGOs or brands including Kickstarter, Nike, Microsoft, Lululemon, PwC, Johnson & Johnson, Whole Foods, Coca-Cola, Hallmark, Chobani, The Red Cross, Sony, charity:water, and more. at altMBAThe First 50 Fellowship is a program for operators who want to find their next roles at world-changing companies., The First 50 Fellowship is a program for operators who want to find their next roles at world-changing companies. at Fellow, On DeckBS, Management Information Systems, BS, Management Information Systems at La Salle UniversityPresenting Data and Information, Presenting Data and Information at Edward Tufte Seminar
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Github contributions (5)
chuckblake/chuckblake.github.io
Oct 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
chuckblake/sample_app2
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 2 tags in 10 months
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