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oblakeerickson/README.md

Hi! I'm Blake Erickson

blake labs circa 2004

I’m a software developer and builder. I’ve been programming and diving deep into the depths of computers since I was a teenager and 20+ years later I still can’t get enough. I’m most experienced building (and scaling!) web apps with Ruby/Rails and JavaScript, but I’m quickly falling in love with Rust and TypeScript as my tools of choice.

Previously, I spent just shy of 9 years at Discourse as a Senior Software Engineer. I was an early employee (#11) and worked in many different capacities from devops like roles, doing feature development in Rails and Emberjs, to working closely with enterprise customers and users to build an amazing product they love.

I thrive on solving customer problems as well as improving the tools we use every day. My favorite moments come from delivering unanticipated delight when shipping ideas that merge naturally from deep product knowledge and a strong sense of what users are really after.

Outside of work, I’m a husband, parent, snowboarder, and car nerd. If I’m not at a keyboard, I’m probably tinkering on a Subaru in my garage, or escaping up in the mountains to snowboard somewhere in Idaho.

Some hobby projects I’m currently building are:

Some GitHub projects you should checkout:

My open source work in other orgs you can checkout:

Checkout my personal website blake.app to learn more about me and to see what I've been writing on my blog. Also checkout my .plan site to see what I have planned for today.

I’m currently on the lookout for a one-of-a-kind founder led company that I can apply my decades of software engineering obsession into. If that’s you and you are hiring, hit me up!

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  1. discourse/discourse_api discourse/discourse_api Public

    Ruby API for Discourse

    Ruby 296 167

  2. json_schema_ref_parser json_schema_ref_parser Public

    dereference $ref links in json schema yaml files

    Ruby 1

  3. resume_cli resume_cli Public

    Easily generate a PDF of your resume from a toml file.

    Rust 1

  4. discourse-just-chat discourse-just-chat Public

    Forked from discourse/discourse-just-chat

    A plugin that hides everything that isn't chat.

    JavaScript

  5. mrgarvey mrgarvey Public

    mrgarvey manages app.ofcourse.chat instances

    Rust 1

  6. plan plan Public

    Blake's .plan files. See what I'm up to

    Rust