Jo Blake
Senior Staff Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJo Blake is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering mid-to-large scale web applications for consumer and creator-facing products. Currently at Reddit after a multi-year tenure at Spotify, Jo has led cross-functional teams and shaped platform and product engineering strategies that balance velocity with long-term architecture. Comfortable across the full stack, Jo specializes in system and application architecture, platform engineering, and modern web technologies. Their background in economics-mathematics from Columbia brings a data-minded approach to product tradeoffs and performance optimizations. Jo’s progression from front-end roles to senior technical leadership reflects a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, user-centric systems at scale. Based in New York, they combine hands-on coding with mentoring and architectural stewardship to turn complex requirements into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Bachelor of Arts in Economics-Mathematics, BA Bachelor of Arts in Economics-Mathematics at Columbia UniversityQueen Mary University of London
English, jamaican patois
Github Skills (66)
zero-configuration10
graphql-request10
testing10
svg10
replay10
javascript10
charts10
developer-tools10
netflix10
trend10
build-tools10
visualization10
react-dom10
facebook10
create-react-app10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jomaxx/redux-extendable-reducer
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 3 commits, 15 pushes in 8 months
jomaxx/jomaxx.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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