Gary Blankenship
CTO at Web Developers LLC
Lakeland, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Blankenship is a seasoned CTO and backend systems architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 20+ year history in PHP and Go development. He specializes in modernizing legacy PHP 5.x codebases, refactoring into Laravel/Symfony/Phalcon, and designing high-performance, maintainable systems with strong OOP and MVC principles. As founder/leader of Web Developers LLC and Black Bayou LLC, he builds scalable platforms, APIs, transcoding pipelines, and parallel processing designs while driving automation and search solutions using Elasticsearch and vector-capable databases. Recently he has pivoted into practical AI integration—prototyping RAG pipelines, local LLM workflows (Ollama), and AI-enhanced developer tooling and CMS search—favoring local-first, interpretable architectures. He has a track record of cost-saving migrations and pragmatic engineering decisions, including significant cloud migrations and optimization work. Based in Lakeland, FL, he blends entrepreneurial leadership with deep technical craft, focused on AI-augmented developer workflows rather than hype.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Business Information Systems, Business Information Systems at Marshall University
Github Skills (93)
sonnet10
php-library10
composer10
chatgpt10
cli10
phalcon10
php-extension10
header-files10
php10
openai10
command-line10
c-extension10
anthropic10
phpstorm10
laravel9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
garyblankenship/leanpub-laravel
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:12 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 month
garyblankenship/Torch
Apr 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 6 months
laravelphpilluminatelaravel-applications
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