# Blaine Killen

> Experienced Software Engineer • Top 50 Global Tech Innovator

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/blainekillen

Co-Founder at FitLift and fitness freak. Experienced software engineer with 9+ years in full-stack, backend, cloud, and emerging AI engineer that has interacted directly with customers to drive success.

## Work Experience
### Founding Staff Software Engineer @ FitLift
Jan 2020 – Present | Greater Seattle Area
• Led development of all front-end UI in React and TypeScript, conducting customer meetings and usability reviews to ensure user-centered design and decrease customer churn by around 60%.
• Designed and implemented relational data models and an AWS architecture to meet cloud service needs for our product and technologies that serves both web and iOS clients, growing customer reach 2.4x
• Architected and built a robust cloud infrastructure and full stack system from scratch, ensuring HECVAT Security Compliance, which contributed to a 31% boost in quarterly revenue
• Invented iOS and web-based platform that provides real time feedback on strength training performance and pairs with a wearable device while continuously meeting with clients to meet customer needs, resulting in over $260k revenue
• Managed product development, testing procedures, code review, and technical employees for the entire organization

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rev.com
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
• Designed architecture for bucketing error events to decrease time for QA to debug and understand severity of issues
• Implemented comprehensive unit tests on backend AWS upload component, increasing component reliability

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington
• Designed and implemented a system to flip SPO On and Off of Azure Front Door (AFD) in 10 minutes worldwide for 6.5 million tenants on 250 farms, decreasing service missed minutes from 13 hours to 10 minutes in the case of an AFD outage
• Designed and implemented a fully secure, end-to-end pipeline to transfer customer SSL certs from SPO to Azure Front Door (AFD) and configure SNI bindings and routes in AFD, meeting design constraints from multiple teams
• Lead increase in file I/O performance of up to 10x for 55 top customers; successfully drove communication, design and implementation for their migration to our accelerated WAN networking infrastructure
• Increased SPOs web file upload performance 2x by implementing client-side file streaming with upload progress resumability
• Lead integration of OneDrive Consumer to our benchmarking platform and drove a 1.7x increase in web file upload speed

### Software Engineer Intern @ SMART Group
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Pearland, Texas
• Developed iPhone app for job site management and time entry to eliminate false reporting of worker
• Used facial recognition library and location data to verify that employee time entry is performed on the correct job site
• Migrated the company’s main repository platform from SVN to Git, decreasing overhead cost

### Web Director @ Tirper
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Syracuse, New York area
• Reduced application load time 15%, optimized SQL calls and order of front-end requests
• Built geo-location event filtering function with PHP/MySQL, jQuery and AJAX

### Web Developer @ Splowse
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Syracuse, New York area
• Developed live BETA for client in three months using HAML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails and Twitter API
• Mocked-up interface and data flow of application based on the vision of client

### Co-Founder @ Somatic Consulting LLC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Syracuse, New York area
• Planned steps in each development project cycle while motivating team to complete their assigned tasks  
• Worked under contract, developing code for end projects based on the client’s needs
• Organized and maintained business corporate records while completing month-end statements and customer billing

### CTO/ Founder @ MeetingSprout
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Syracuse, New York
• Invented calendar web app that displays open times from multiple calendars using Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS & jQuery
• Raised $5,000 for the company by pitching to investors and potential customers in capital competitions and networking events
• Admitted to the Syracuse Technology Garden as the first freshmen team to join the program


## Education
### Software Engineering
Hack Reactor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor's degree in Dual in Information Technology and Management and Marketing Management
Syracuse University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015

### High School Diploma
Dawson High School
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bjkillen
- Website: http://www.tirper.com
- Website: http://www.splowse.com
- Website: http://www.meetingsprout.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22