Summary
Rick Blalock is a seasoned founder and product leader with 15 years of experience building developer platforms, AI solutions, and consumer mobile products at scale. He scaled a mobile developer platform to 800,000 developers, architected AI deployments for Fortune 500 clients, and founded Fish Rules—a fisheries management platform he sold and then integrated into Fishbrain, later serving as CPO to drive growth and profitability for 15M+ users. Comfortable at the intersection of engineering and product, he has hands-on experience with full-stack systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and mobile stacks (NodeJS, NextJS, GCP, Swift/Kotlin, React Native). Now building an "agent-native" AI cloud with Agentuity while serving on HAECO’s board, he blends operator grit with strategic M&A and integration chops. An educator by training, he brings an unusual combination of teaching roots and technical depth that helps him translate complex AI and product challenges into executable plans.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education - BEd Secondary Education and Teaching, Bachelor of Education - BEd Secondary Education and Teaching at Crown College
Spanish, English