Richard Blake
Director at Easy Eats
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRichard Blake is a seasoned IT leader with 11 years’ experience managing Windows-centric infrastructure and production environments across New Zealand’s public sector and enterprise clients. As Director of Easy Eats and a former Wintel Systems Engineer at Datacom, he combines hands-on expertise in DNS, Active Directory, Exchange, VMware, backups and patching with automation skills in PowerShell that have measurably reduced routine toil. He’s comfortable on-call for high‑priority incidents and has delivered practical automation—such as BAU handover and alert‑closing scripts—that saved engineering time and improved operational focus. Based in Wellington, Richard pairs strong troubleshooting instincts with customer-facing service delivery, and brings an engineer’s pragmatism to leadership and process improvements.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Information Technology, Network Engineering, Diploma of Information Technology, Network Engineering at Computer PowerNCEA Level 3 and University Entrance, NCEA Level 3 and University Entrance at Tawa College
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Github Skills (20)
django10
user-experience10
phonegap-plugin10
flexibility10
cms9
python9
wagtail9
serial-communication9
content-management8
content-management-system8
phonegap8
bluetooth7
cordova6
android5
form-builder4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
octavenz/wagtail-advanced-form-builder
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Advanced form builder for Wagtail
Contributions:1 review, 35 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
form-builderdjangobuilderadvanced-formwagtail
octavenz/puppeteer-pdf
Feb 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years
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