Blake Dietz
Experience
Jump
Nov 2024 – May 2025Senior software engineer
Nov 2024 – May 2025Owned 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 2024Senior software engineer
Aug 2023 – Oct 2024One 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 2023Founding software engineer
Jun 2022 – Jun 2023One 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 2022Senior software engineer
May 2021 – Jun 2022node.js · React · K8s · Amplitude
- Responsible for top of funnel marketing for the time tracking product and analytics.
Instinct
Oct 2020 – Jan 2021Full stack software engineer
Oct 2020 – Jan 2021Absinthe · AWS · Elixir · K8s · OTP · Phoenix · React
- Built fault tolerant integrations for Heska blood work labs.
Vetspire
Dec 2019 – Sep 2020Full stack software engineer
Dec 2019 – Sep 2020One 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 2019Senior software engineer
Oct 2016 – Dec 2019AWS · 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 2017Volunteer software engineer
Aug 2015 – Oct 2017node.js · Expo · AWS
WhiteCloud Analytics
Apr 2013 – Oct 2016Software engineer
Jun 2014 – Oct 2016Java · Angular · Jenkins · Docker · AWS
Intern
Apr 2013 – Jun 2014Java · Angular · D3.js
Education
Boise State University
2009 – 2014B.S. Applied Mathematics · Computer Science Minor