Joey Blake
Senior Software Engineer II at HubSpot
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJoey Blake is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building web and CMS-driven applications, now focused at HubSpot after progressing from Senior I to Senior II. He blends backend engineering—demonstrated by impactful Elasticsearch/date-query work on 10up’s popular ElasticPress plugin—with front-end CMS theming and UX tweaks in HubSpot projects. As a former lead developer and engineer at agencies like 10up and Knucklepuck, he’s comfortable owning features end-to-end, from templating and component logic to search integrations and performance tuning. Based in Winchester, VA, Joey pairs a design-centered BA in Integrative Studies with deep technical craft, reflecting roots in interactive design and server-side concerns. He often surfaces pragmatic solutions that bridge product needs and search/data access patterns, such as extending core plugin classes to enable robust date-based querying.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Integrative Studies, Computer Graphics and Design, Bachelor of Arts Integrative Studies, Computer Graphics and Design at George Mason University
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Github Skills (21)
develop10
amazon-elasticsearch10
css10
wordpress10
searching10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
front-end-development10
html10
elasticsearch10
modification10
backend10
elasticsearch-api10
javascript7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HubSpot/cms-theme-boilerplate
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A straight-forward starting point for building a great website on the HubSpot CMS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 10 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joey primarily focused on front-end development within the HubSpot CMS theme boilerplate. Their contributions involved modifying landing page templates, adjusting search input styles, and modifying form elements. The user implemented and adjusted components with conditional logic based on the version of a HubSpot search input module. They also removed an unused QA test screenshot.
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10up/ElasticPress
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joey primarily focused on enhancing the `elasticpress` plugin, specifically implementing date-based search functionality. Their contributions included adding date term mappings for Elasticsearch, modifying the `EP_API` class to prepare and integrate date terms, and extending the `EP_WP_Date_Query` class for filtering by date. The user's work involved modifying core classes, integrating with Elasticsearch, and developing features related to date-based querying.
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