tamzinblake@gmail.com
Walnut Creek, CA 94578
203 710 5337
web: http://tamzinblake.com
git: http://github.com/tamzinblake
resume: http://tamzinblake.com/resume
- 20+ years experience in front-end and full-stack web development
- 10+ years experience with node.js and modern front-end frameworks such as React
- Certified scrum master, experienced with project planning, team leadership
- Experience with working on a distributed team and remotely, and building a sustainable, inclusive remote culture
- Interest and experience with dev tooling and library development for front-end, as well as living style guides and design systems
- 2020: Omni Labs
- Senior Software Engineer, full-stack (front-end focus)
- React / Node / Electron / Chrome extension
- 2019 - 2020: Earnest
- Senior Software Engineer, full-stack (front-end focus)
- React / Node / Typescript / Flow
- 2016 - 2019: PagerDuty
- Senior Software Engineer, Front-end lead
- Ember / React / Node
- Led development of the Operations Command Console, a modular dashboard
- Improved front-end tooling, testing, and infrastructure for our Ember app, including the introduction of continuous delivery for front-end
- Created guidelines for remote culture on my team that became adopted by the rest of the org
- 2016 - 2018: NodeConf
- Director
- 2014 - 2016: Yahoo (BrightRoll team)
- Software Engineer, Brewmaster
- Led the team for the Publisher Platform, a new full-stack web app built using React.
- Created the first BrightRoll app with continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Summer 2015: Hackbright Academy
- Senior Instructor (part-time) - full-stack web development
- 2013 - 2014: BrightRoll
- Software Engineer, Brewmaster
- Worked on BrightRoll Console, our flagship single-page web app built with Node.js and CanJS.
- Real-time, responsive data visualization using d3
- Display, manipulation, and live-binding of massive datasets
- Collaborated with teams across the company and across multiple geographic locations
- Industry knowledge of the video ad space
- 2007 - 2013: O'Donnell Programming and Development Company
- Senior developer
- Full-stack web development with MySQL, Perl, and JavaScript
- Designed and coded internal project management web application
- Ported web framework from Perl to Python
- Fast prototyping of web apps in Node.js
- Web survey programming in C
- Spring 2010: Adjunct Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
- 2007 - 2008: Webmaster, Research Center on Computing and Society
- 2006 - 2007: Webmaster, SCSU Philosophy Department
- 2003 - 2007: Audio Visual Department, SCSU
- 2002 - 2003: Receiving Manager, Sears Hardware Store
- Responsible for millions of dollars in assets and led the receiving team.
- 1997 - 2007: Freelance web developer
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- 2007 - 2012: PhD (ABD - not completed) in Computer Ethics, De Montfort University
- Research fellow at the Research Center on Computing and Society
- 1997 - 2007: BA in Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University
- Minors in Computer Science and Asian Studies
- Graduated with Departmental Honors in Philosophy
- Philosophy club president
- Giant flaming metal sculptures such as Noetica
- Ukulele
- Crafting chainmail armor
- Robotics / NodeBots