Blake Thomas Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Westerville, Ohio, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Recruited and managed diverse high performance teams of over 30 engineering managers, software architects, software engineers, UX designers, and product owners across the USA, Canada, Germany, and South America, including remote and distributed team members.- Implemented Agile methodologies at scale to accommodate rapid growth, optimizing processes and ensuring seamless collaboration across remote, distributed, global teams.- Developed and implemented secure systems architecture on AWS, overseeing the hiring of a dedicated SRE team responsible for managing systems, monitoring, observability, security and APIs.- Streamlined existing infrastructure, transitioning to a serverless architecture that led to a 90% reduction in total monthly AWS billing expenses throughout the SaaS platform.- Cultivated individual development plans, and quarterly OKR's, for each team member, successfully promoting two senior software engineers to engineering manager positions resulting in scalable team structure.- Mentored subordinate managers in recruiting and hiring principles, empowering them to build and develop their own teams autonomously.- Championed an API-first strategy, emphasizing API lifecycle management, security, and customer success to drive optimal adoption and integration KPI’s, resulting in a 5x increase YoY of ARR.- Played a crucial role in two funding rounds, overseeing company integration from Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to Series A funding and beyond, gaining valuable M&A experience.- Managed budgeting and performance using SAP, Workday, Ariba, and Concur tools.- Navigated regulatory and internal compliance requirements, including GDPR, while maintaining non-negotiable standards for data security and privacy.- Acquired valuable expertise in the Manufacturing sector and AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) industries

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

- Lead mobile and web development teams (agile), including two frontend developers, two backend developers, one UX designer, one graphic designer, four QA engineers, one Android developer, and one iOS developer.- Revamped engineering culture with engineers in Boston, MA; Berwyn, PA and remote engineers in Europe.- Oversaw server architecture and SDLC process to scale the Context product.- Worked closely with the VP of Product to define the product roadmap to align the customer dashboard vision and API to the four-other company B2B SaaS products. Gained product lifecycle experience from idea to launch and ongoing metrics and iteration.- Structured team for new Embedded (IoT, Wearables) product, resulting in embedded location product launch and customer evaluations.- Implemented internal mentoring program across engineering. Set the employee growth and reporting process using OKR’s across engineering as the pilot program for the organization.- Built candidate pipelines in the hundreds and initiated process around engineering job tracks and growth within the company. Facilitated hiring for senior and junior software engineers, including staffing product development teams.- Completed product overhaul for customer dashboard used by customers across the three major products including RESTful API interface and robust analytics and graphing along with migrating existing monolithic services to standalone micro-services.- Implemented robust Google Analytics, HubSpot and Mouseflow tools to enable market data-driven decisions around UX, design sprints, user testing, prototypes, engineering sprints, and marketing campaigns.- Expanded experience in mobile location technology, data processing, analytics/metrics, management, and large-scale cloud computing.

Boston, Ma, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

● Opened the Boston office upon arrival and led hiring requirements.● Developed initial ecosystem using facial recognition technology along with frontend application.● Set product priorities and developed initial testing prior to new funding round and company relocation to New York, NY, Jan ’15.

● Built and maintained enterprise extranet and intranet sites in a fully agile development environment.● Setup internal process for local development and deployment using Vagrant, GIT, and AWS Cloud.● Tested concepts using a decoupled approach to using a CMS as a backend with a custom frontend (JavaScript based).

● Gained valuable experience required to lead a team in a remote, agile, environment.● Worked on various projects building custom content management systems based on multiple PHP MVC frameworks.● Completed frontend responsive development while managing backend developers to build complete features. ● Agile development with daily scrum meetings and QA process.

Livermore, Ca, Us

Other, Certificate In Disruptive Strategy

Other; Certificate In Strategy Execution

Computer Science, Computer Science

Ccna, Cisco Networking Academy