Blake Hall

Software Engineer

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Framebridge
2020-2024

Individual contributor and occasional project lead working on a Rails monolith with a frontend mix of AngularJS and Vue. Responsible for maintaining internal tools used in the manufacturing process, including integrations with 3rd party services and equipment. Primary focus was supporting new initiatives while also working to address tech debt around performance and data model organization.

Software Engineer

UserTesting
2015-2020

Individual contributor doing full stack development on a Rails monolith with an Angular frontend. Worked on everything from frontend framework migration, large feature rollouts, and major refactors/upgrades. Technical lead for some larger, one-off, projects.

Software Engineer

Granicus
2014-2015

Full stack developer working on multiple projects, predominantly in Ruby on Rails with a frontend in Marionette.JS. Mixture of standalone monoliths with some micro services.

Software Engineer

ArtAround
2013-2014

Part-time Rails developer responsible for maintaining and extending ArtAround, a website and resource dedicated to cataloging public art, and its API used by the iOS app. Rails3 with MongoDB for the database and RSpec for testing.

Junior Software Engineer

CirrusMio
2012-2013

Part of the initial development team, primarily Rails and backend related development, but with frontend work when required. Stack included Rails 3, MySQL, Redis, and Solr.