Kent Blake
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Blake is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web interfaces and backend services, currently contributing at Palantir in New York. He has a strong front-end focus—having enhanced Palantir’s widely used Blueprint React UI toolkit with feature work and consistency fixes—while also delivering production systems at Oracle and Visa during internships. A Stanford graduate with a BS in Symbolic Systems and an MS in Computer Science, he blends rigorous academic training with practical engineering across languages and stacks (React, Rails, Java, Ember). Beyond shipping features, he has improved developer experience and documentation (e.g., MultiStepDialog examples) and has a track record of designing high-throughput systems and internal tools that scale to thousands of users.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) with Distinction, Symbolic Systems, GPA: 4.02/4.00, Bachelor of Science (BS) with Distinction, Symbolic Systems, GPA: 4.02/4.00 at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
hotkeys9
styles8
css8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/blueprint
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kent focused on enhancing and extending the functionality of the `blueprint` UI toolkit. They implemented new features such as controlled input props and the ability to add tags on blur within the TagInput component. Furthermore, they addressed class name consistency across various components, including Hotkey, KeyCombo, and ResizeHandle. The user also made improvements to the MultiStepDialog example in the documentation application.
reactblueprintocto-correct-managedsassjavascript
kmblake/say-app
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Submission and review system for writing and art submissions to Stanford Anthology for Youth
Contributions:6 PRs, 67 pushes, 43 branches in 2 years 8 months
stanfordsubmissionsartanthologyreview
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