Colton Blake

location_onPhiladelphia, PA workhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cltnblk
Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Arcadia Solutions, LLC

location_onRemote calendar_monthMay 2020 - Present
  • Lead end-to-end development of multiple full-stack web applications, overseeing technical design, implementation, testing, and operations to deliver scalable solutions.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and platform teams to build features integrating with internal APIs and third-party systems.
  • Mentor engineers as a tech lead through code reviews and regular knowledge-sharing, raising code quality and team performance.
  • Engage with internal stakeholders and external users to shape product direction and prioritize high-impact features aligned with user needs.
  • Contribute across multiple stacks (Python, TypeScript, Java, Go), adapting to varied architectures and codebases.

Software Engineer

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Enterprises

location_onPittsburgh, PA calendar_monthMay 2019 - May 2020
  • Designed and implemented new REST API endpoints in a Ruby on Rails service, improving data access for downstream applications.
  • Mentored three engineering interns, enabling production contributions and supporting their professional development.
  • Led migration from a self-managed Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS, establishing CI pipelines via CircleCI for automated deployment.

Software Engineer Intern

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Enterprises

location_onPittsburgh, PA calendar_monthMay 2018 - May 2019
  • Optimized a high-volume data quality reporting system (150M+ documents), reducing operational cost by shifting from monthly batch jobs to real-time reporting.
Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

The University of Pittsburgh

location_onPittsburgh, PA calendar_monthApril 2019
  • GPA: 3.9 / 4.0
  • Honors: Dean's List, summa cum laude
Technical Skills