Blake Smith
Principal Software Engineer at Sprout Social, Inc.
- Role
- Principal Software Engineer at Sprout Social, Inc.
- Location
- Barrington Hills, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Blake Smith
Software developer with a focus in web technologies and internet platforms. I build with a focus on scale and speed - big data sets, high traffic throughput and large backend architectures. I turn bytes into business value.Specialties: Fault tolerant distributed systems. Horizontally scalable databases (HBase, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, and many more). I enjoy building small systems and iterating on them quickly to scale to large traffic volumes. Good type systems are your friend.I believe in engineers owning all aspects of the development cycle, including development, automated testing, server provisioning, deployment and monitoring.Built production systems in: Rust, Go, Scala, Ruby, Python, C, Erlang, Clojure, JavaProduction DevOps experience with: Chef, Terraform, Kubernetes, Puppet, Nix, Ansible, in many different cloud environments (AWS, GCE, etc.)Fun hacking in: Haskell, C++, and a lot more.I also spend quite a bit of time building embedded systems and custom hardware for fun. I\'ve built several custom PCBs, and designed and written their firmware (C, C++, Rust). I\'m also starting to dabble in FPGAs, RISC-V, and other electronic hardware.
Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Apr 2020 — Present
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