Summary
Mike Blake is a pragmatic full-stack developer based in Madrid with over two decades of experience building web, mobile and IPTV applications and twelve years in professional roles delivering production-grade systems. He specializes in Ruby/Rails and JavaScript with a strong track record integrating search and graph technologies (Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Neo4j) for investigative and data-intensive products used by Spanish law enforcement and Digital Risk Protection teams. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he combines rapid adaptability with disciplined, well-tested delivery and a history of improving performance and scalability for high-traffic sites. His background ranges from early portal growth and team-building to recent work on predictive crypto MVPs, reflecting both systems-level thinking and hands-on implementation. An open-source advocate who prefers gremlin-free, on-time releases, he often brings practical scripts and tooling to streamline operations and analytics.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, English