# Blake Wood > Senior Software Engineer Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/blakewood Passionate about building efficient scalable systems with effective teams. Problem solving is at the core of my passion for delivering high quality technical solutions to businesses doing great things. AWS, Python, Django, Typescript, NodeJS, NestJS, React, Next.js, C#, PostgreSQL ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ APARAVI Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Monica, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Sabbatical / Personal Study Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ● Career break to backpack / travel abroad in Southeast Asia and Europe. ● Stayed active with software building personal projects and self-studying. ● Created a GPT fashion stylist app that scrapes fast fashion sites and recommends outfits based on user requests using NestJS, React, Python, Langchain and ChatGPT in a Nx monorepo. ● Created a GPT system design interviewer that integrates with an interactive node graph editor for users to practice interviews using NestJS, React, Python, Langchain and ChatGPT in a Nx monorepo. ### Senior Software Engineer @ mPulse Mobile Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States ● Reduced processing time from 50 hours to 4 hours for 1 million rows of healthcare provider member data by spearheading an initiative to rewrite a large data importer service in Django. ● Improved functionality of internal services by development of REST endpoints using Python Fast API, leading to faster integrations and high quality documentation across the organization. ● Accelerated CI/CD lifecycle of multiple legacy applications by containerizing using Docker and configuring Github Actions for testing and deployment. ● Played a key role in on-boarding and mentoring junior engineers resulting in a fast pace team that delivered on time. ### Software Engineering Manager @ mPulse Mobile Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States ● Delivered technical leadership for a new course building application on a health learning platform. Worked with BA to gather technical requirements, plan a roadmap, and oversaw development lifecycle. ● Increased team productivity by administering a streamlined development process using agile methodologies. ● Ensured deliverables were on time stepping in when needed to assist developers with tasks. ### Fullstack Software Engineer @ mPulse Mobile Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States ● Created an activity service that handled thousands of user actions by streaming events to Celery workers leading to valuable business insights. ● Improved performance of analytic report builder application which enhanced workflow of cross-functional teams. ● Increased development productivity and browser compatibility of large CRM SPA by upgrading Angular from 5 to 11. ● Maintained REST APIs and integrations between internal backend applications in Django Python. ### Principal Engineer @ CarLabs.ai Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Calabasas, California, United States ● Collaborated with the VP to design a SaaS platform empowering clients to create chatbots effortlessly, without coding. This initiative led to the development of new services, facilitating the creation, training, and deployment of chatbots. ● Implemented a client-facing gateway API wrapper, utilizing GraphQL and Golang, to streamline interactions with existing backend API microservices. ● Innovated and developed NLP Dojo, a user-friendly no-code training application enabling clients to customize, train, and test NLP classification models written in NodeJS. ### Software Engineer @ CarLabs.ai Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Calabasas ● Designed and developed a modular, extendable C# framework for building chatbots, enabling them to manage hundreds of concurrent conversations. ● Created a C# SDK to interface with various internal services, including NLP, CMS, analytics, and data warehouses. ● Spearheaded the development of an E2E test library suite, enabling QA engineers to automate manual testing tasks and write conversational tests with minimal programming expertise. ● Led the migration of the core NLP service from a closed-source Google service (Dialogflow) to open-source Rasa Core NLU. ● Implemented the state-of-the-art BERT model into the Rasa Core pipeline, enhancing text intent classification for all client chatbots. ● Developed a frontend web chat devtool with React and TypeScript to retrieve backend state and provide valuable conversation debugging information, widely used by QA and software engineers across the company. ### Fullstack Software Engineer @ Ettrics Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 ● Oversaw development activities for multiple client projects, taking charge of development timelines, cost estimates, and feature planning. ● Managed a small team of developers using agile methodologies, ensuring efficient project execution. ● Initiated and executed the development of a comprehensive 1000+ page documentation site for a significant client, Mesosphere DC/OS. Introduced a solution to convert the site to PDF and enable on-demand offline documentation downloads. ● Led the development of a web application for a construction management service, leveraging Golang, CouchDB, and Docker. ● Created a web scraping service to extract and deliver news articles into Slack based on specified keywords. ### Freelance Fullstack Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Collaborated with individual clients building out Wordpress, Angular, React, Node.JS solutions. ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/blake-a-wood --- Source: https://flows.cv/blakewood JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/blakewood/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22