Robert Blakey
Staff Software Engineer at Self-employed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobert Blakey is a staff software engineer at Betterment with 11 years of building scalable web applications in fintech and financial services. His blend of hands-on full-stack capability (JavaScript, React, Ruby on Rails) with leadership roles—engineering manager to staff engineer—drives delivery in a fast-paced fintech environment. His experience spans self-employed web development, AWS cloud architectures, RESTful APIs, and modern CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Heroku), enabling reliable, scalable deployments. An electrical engineer by training, he applies a rigorous systems mindset to product development, balancing performance, reliability, and UX. His career includes early roles at JPMorgan Chase and Upright, giving him a cross-cutting view of enterprise and startup dynamics. Based in New York, he mentors teams and leads growth engineering initiatives to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at Hampton University
English
Github Skills (12)
schema8
database7
rails7
activerecord6
sql6
ruby6
postgres5
saml4
postgresql4
api2
ruby-rails1
sinatra1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
andimrob/andimrob.github.io
Feb 2018 - Apr 2025
My website
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 2 months
react
andimrob/AudioAvatar
May 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.