# Blake Tillman

> Software Engineer at Citadel

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/blaketillman

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer (Commodities) @ Citadel
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
SRE, devops, SDLC, infrastructure

### Software Engineer (Treasury) @ Citadel
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### iCloud Software Engineering Intern @ Apple
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, California
- Independently drove a need-based CloudKit ORM-layer project from concept to design to implementation to finished product and presented it to over 60 internal adopters, gathering feedback every step of the way
- Wrote an application that compiles .proto files into Java classes as a replacement for the protobuf compiler
- Wrote an application that generates Java entity classes from iCloud database schema definitions
- Created a web application to visualize intermediate stages of FoundationDB transactions

### Resident Assistant @ Louisiana State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Budgeted, developed, and implemented residential programs for promoting social and academic growth
- Met residents’ individual needs by establishing and expanding interpersonal relationships
- Guided residents in creating and maintaining an atmosphere conducive to study and learning
- Exercised crisis management and adaptability to ensure the safety and well-being of residents
- Mediated conflicts between residents to promote a safe, comfortable living environment

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California
- Designed and implemented an algorithm for ranking a time-window range of calendar meetings by importance
- Added features to a calendar scheduling assistant as part of the Apps Search and Intelligence team
- Wrote grammars for an NLP model to extract user commands from ordinary English phrases

### Software Engineering Intern @ The Advisory Board Company
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas
- Developed a web dashboard using .NET and React that displays graphs of performance metrics of daily builds
- Configured Bamboo continuous integration jobs that automatically deploy builds to multiple environments
- Created JMeter tests for performance, load, and regression testing in multiple deployment environments


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Louisiana State University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics
Louisiana State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/blake-tillman

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Last updated: 2026-04-05