Finley Blake
Business Analyst at SSA & Company
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFinley Blake is a finance-trained business analyst in New York with 10 years of cross-functional experience spanning operations, strategy, and growth consulting at firms like Kaiser Associates and SSA & Company. He combines rigorous financial modeling and market due diligence with hands-on product and technical curiosity—evidenced by a notable open-source project where he implemented a Redis-compatible server and cluster in Go, complete with protocol parsing, concurrency primitives, TTL and pub/sub features. This blend of consulting discipline and backend engineering fluency helps him translate complex technical requirements into actionable, investor-grade recommendations. Finley holds an MS in Finance from UVA McIntire and a BA in History from UVA, a background that supports both analytical rigor and contextual storytelling. He is comfortable navigating private equity, payments, industrial and TMT engagements while also contributing code that demonstrates systems-level thinking beyond typical analyst work.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Finance Concentration, Master of Science - MS, Finance Concentration at UVA McIntire School of CommerceSpringside Chestnut Hill AcademyBachelor's degree, HISTORY, Bachelor's degree, HISTORY at University of Virginia
Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
go10
redis10
data-structure10
concurrency10
network-programming9
tcp9
distributed-systems9
clustering7
hashtable7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HDT3213/godis
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A Golang implemented Redis Server and Cluster. Go 语言实现的 Redis 服务器和分布式集群
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 51 reviews, 162 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Finley implemented the core functionality of a Redis server and cluster in Go, including the TCP server, the Redis protocol parser, and basic data structures such as a linked list and a concurrent dictionary. They developed commands such as GET, SET, INCR, and their related variations to manipulate string values and implemented database features like TTL. The user also added the functionality for key expiration and cluster mode operations like MSet, Del, and the core publish/subscribe features within the Redis server.
golanggo-redisredisredis-clusterredis-server
HDT3213/rdb
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Golang implemented Redis RDB parser for secondary development and memory analysis
Contributions:18 releases, 45 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 1 month
golangmemorysecondaryredisrdb
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