# Blake McCartin

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/blakemccartin

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Tock
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Tock
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Tock
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois

### Technology Consulting Senior Analyst @ Accenture
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area

### Technology Consulting Analyst @ Accenture
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Chicago
DevOps Pilot for Hospitality Client - Microservices Developer
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	• Educated client Pilot team on Devops tools and Agile best practices for CI/CD
	• Developed Spring Cloud microservices to expose a REST API, integrating with the legacy SOAP based system. Deployed the microservices to AWS ECS (EC2 Container Service). Introduced a Jenkins pipeline to build, package, test, and deploy microservices to AWS ECS
	• Introduced Agile processes, including daily standups, 2 week sprints, user stories, sprint planning and story estimation, backlog refinement, and sprint retrospectives
	• Tools Used: Spring Cloud (Java), AWS ECS (EC2 Container Service), Docker, Jenkins, Cucumber (functional testing), Gatling (performance testing), SonarQube

Accenture JumpStart - Software Developer
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Built prototype applications for clients using Serverless microservices architecture and DevOps tools
	• Deployed a Spring Cloud microservices reference application on the Openshift platform, porting the team DevOps stack to host all resources in Openshift, establishing team best practices.
	• Developed a backend service using Azure Functions, CosmosDB, Blob Storage, and a Node proxy application connected to an Azure Event Hub for streaming simulated vehicle telemetry data over websockets for a major Motor Company
	• Developed an AWS Serverless Framework Scaffold, parameterized to quickly and easily deploy a skeleton backend application to the cloud. Created sample Lambda functions written in typescript, DynamoDB, S3, and an API gateway with database calls written in Cloudformation, configured with functional and performance testing integrated into the Jenkins pipeline

### Software Engineering Intern @ Digital Medical Arts LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### Technology Analyst Intern @ Southwest Airlines
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Worked with the Culture and Communications department to build work process documentation in ARIS for the implementation of new event management software. 

Assumed a business analyst role on a 6 person team to research and propose an initial governance gate presentation to the CIO for approval for funds for the development of a custom mobile application. Created a project plan and timeline, and used an employee survey to determine $9,625,672 potential cost savings

### Microeconomics Teaching Assistant @ Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
As a TA, I held weekly office hours and review sessions to review basic microeconomics concepts, and graded homework and tests for a class of 50 students.

### MATLAB Teaching Assistant @ Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Supervised lab sections and helped students grasp basic coding concepts, from functions and recursion to data structures and analysis.
Graded labs, quizzes, and exams.

### Business Process Optimization Intern @ Centene Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Created standard operating procedures for business processes and conducted a stop motion study to improve average handle times of triage calls

### Intern @ Lockton Companies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Created a new physical client file system for hospital insurance information and performed an audit on the computer filing system, reporting directly to the Director of Continual Quality Improvement.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Major: Systems Science and Engineering; Minor: Computer Science
Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/blake-mccartin-6756979a

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Last updated: 2026-03-22