Colton Blake

Software Engineer

location_onPhiladelphia, PA email[email protected] codegithub.com/coltonb
Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Arcadia Solutions, LLC

location_onRemote calendar_monthMay 2020 - Present
  • Responsible for technical decisions, design, planning, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of the Arcadia Console, a centralized configuration web application.
  • Regularly collaborate cross-team in the organization to design and implement features that integrate with multiple services.
  • Frequently mentor peers through regular knowledge sharing sessions and code review.
  • Migrated an internally managed Microsoft SQL database responsible for managing more than 200 million clinical concept mappings to a Python microservice, enabling customers to self service mappings using the Arcadia Console.
  • Stack: Python FastAPI backend, PostgreSQL database, Vue.js frontend, deployed on AWS Lambda, RDS, and CloudFront using Terraform and CircleCI.

Software Engineer

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Enterprises

location_onPittsburgh, PA calendar_monthMay 2019 - May 2020
  • Designed, implemented, and unit tested new endpoints for Ruby on Rails REST API.
  • Mentored a team of three software engineer interns, enabling them to make valuable contributions to the product.
  • Created and performed migration procedure from self-managed Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS, implementing a continuous integration pipeline to handle deployment.

Software Engineer Intern

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Enterprises

location_onPittsburgh, PA calendar_monthMay 2018 - May 2019
  • Reworked a data quality report system for 150+ million patient documents from an expensive monthly batch process to real time reporting.
Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

The University of Pittsburgh

location_onPittsburgh, PA calendar_monthApril 2019
  • GPA: 3.96 / 4.00
  • Honors: Dean's List, summa cum laude
Technical Skills