Robert Blakey
Staff Software Engineer at Betterment
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobert Blakey is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts in financial services and fintech. He combines hands-on web app development expertise in JavaScript, React, and Ruby on Rails with people and growth engineering skills developed while managing teams at Betterment. From founding engineering roles at PropTech startup Upright to on-call data center operations at JPMorgan Chase, he bridges infrastructure, backend APIs, and polished front-end UIs. A BS in Electrical Engineering underpins his systems-thinking approach, and he maintains independent consulting work that keeps him sharp across multiple stacks and domains. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex domain and compliance requirements into pragmatic, testable solutions that scale.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at Hampton University
English
Github Skills (15)
schema8
sql7
ruby7
database7
rails7
activerecord6
feature-flags6
configuration-management5
ab-testing4
zsh4
ruby-on-rails4
saml4
ruby-rails1
sinatra1
api1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
andimrob/andimrob
Feb 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
andimrob/andimrob.github.io
Feb 2018 - Mar 2026
My website
Contributions:4 PRs, 50 pushes, 11 branches in 8 years 2 months
react
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