Karmen Blake
Tenured Software Development Program Lead & Instructor at Spokane Colleges
Post Falls, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolKarmen Blake is a tenured software development program lead and instructor with 14 years of industry and academic experience blending hands-on engineering, curriculum design, and team leadership. She has led software programs and advisory boards, taught web and computer science courses at community colleges and universities, and worked as a senior engineer across companies from Apple to PepsiCo and UserTesting. Known for mentoring and building practical, industry-aligned curricula, she pairs a humble, people-first leadership style with deep technical fluency in web architectures, agile practices, and full-stack development. Her background includes international consulting on justice-sector software in Afghanistan, showing an ability to apply technical solutions in complex, high-stakes environments. Based in Post Falls, Idaho, she continuously pursues knowledge and balances teaching with real-world development to keep classroom content current and relevant.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BAE in Computer Science MEd in Technology Education Computer Science Web Distance Learning, BAE in Computer Science MEd in Technology Education Computer Science Web Distance Learning at Eastern Washington University
English
Stackoverflow
3,446reputation
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17answers
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ruby-on-rails
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rspec
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ruby
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unit-testing
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Github Skills (60)
organize10
unit-testing9
ruby9
elixir9
rspec9
functional-programming9
ruby-on-rails9
backend-framework8
complexity8
backend8
api8
backend-api7
gcp7
serverless6
database6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kblake/functional-programming
Mar 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:92 commits, 6 PRs, 71 pushes in 4 years 3 months
organizeelixirteachfunctional-programming
saintPOPPY/lecis233
Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:19 reviews, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
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