Blake Dietz

Experience

Jump

Nov 2024 – May 2025

Senior software engineer

Nov 2024 – May 2025

Owned features from inception to deployment.

AI · GCP · Elixir · LiveView · Phoenix · TailWind · K8s

  • Provided tighter integration between Zoom and Jump by building the first in-client Zoom app.
  • Increased T.A.M. by adding integrations for multiple Salesforce overlays and Zinnia SmartOffice.
  • Reduced error count for data generated by AI models by leveraging structured outputs.
  • Accelerated hourly deployments by introducing a feature flag system that supported actor based feature gating.

Empower Delivery

Aug 2023 – Oct 2024

Senior software engineer

Aug 2023 – Oct 2024

One of six engineers working on a product while looking for product-market fit.

Elixir · LiveView · Phoenix · OTP · Render · TailWind

  • Used OTP to build real-time tracker for driver notifications based upon order demand.
  • Dove head first into building a native Android kiosk app on a tight deadline.
  • Introduced storybook with a ui library to better test and document ui components.
  • Wrote well tested and documented code.

Elegy Software

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023

Founding software engineer

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023

One of two engineers that built the product from scratch.

AWS · Elixir · LiveView · Phoenix · OTP · TailWind

  • Conducted follow-me-homes to understand the customer's problems.
  • Developed invoicing system which directly contributed to customer acquisition.
  • Constructed a component library to standardize and expedite feature delivery.
  • Designed and implemented app-wide mobile support.

Intuit

May 2021 – Jun 2022

Senior software engineer

May 2021 – Jun 2022

node.js · React · K8s · Amplitude

  • Responsible for top of funnel marketing for the time tracking product and analytics.

Instinct

Oct 2020 – Jan 2021

Full stack software engineer

Oct 2020 – Jan 2021

Absinthe · AWS · Elixir · K8s · OTP · Phoenix · React

  • Built fault tolerant integrations for Heska blood work labs.

Vetspire

Dec 2019 – Sep 2020

Full stack software engineer

Dec 2019 – Sep 2020

One of three engineers working on a pre-seed product.

Elixir · Phoenix · Absinthe · React · GCP · K8s

  • Direct contact for Petco for feature requests, scoping and implementation.
  • Introduced CI/CD pipeline for kubernetes deployments via Github actions.

Intuit

Oct 2016 – Dec 2019

Senior software engineer

Oct 2016 – Dec 2019

AWS · MySQL · PHP · node.js · React · Jenkins · K8s

  • Built a CI/CD pipeline that reduced time from feature completion to deployment.
  • Transitioned the frontend architecture to better align with Intuit.
  • Rearchitected the frontend to increase feature development speed and testability.

Treefort Music Festival

Aug 2015 – Oct 2017

Volunteer software engineer

Aug 2015 – Oct 2017

node.js · Expo · AWS

WhiteCloud Analytics

Apr 2013 – Oct 2016

Software engineer

Jun 2014 – Oct 2016

Java · Angular · Jenkins · Docker · AWS

Intern

Apr 2013 – Jun 2014

Java · Angular · D3.js

Education

Boise State University

2009 – 2014

B.S. Applied Mathematics · Computer Science Minor