# David Blanchard ๐Ÿงข๐Ÿ’ก > Senior Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidblanchard ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Caplight Jan 2025 โ€“ Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Quill Meetings Jan 2024 โ€“ Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States - Automated marketing content creation by developing a transcript generation pipeline that produced new marketing materials as new templates and meeting types were added. - Increased user activation rate by 37% by designing and implementing a first-time user app tour system to guide users efficiently to the first 'aha' moment - Expanded distribution surface area by converting the desktop build into a Mac App Store-compatible version, addressing sandboxing, notarization, and app review requirements to ensure a smooth approval process. ### CTO & Co-Founder @ Keys Jan 2020 โ€“ Jan 2024 - Ensured >99.9% uptime for our >10,000 DAU by implementing an approach to smoothly toggle between LLM providers, gracefully handling service outages out of our control. - Secured a patent grant for our generative AI keyboard by designing a novel backend infrastructure that focused on aligning generated content with the user's persona. - Improved our App Store rating from 1.3 to 4.8 stars by revamping the ratings flow, leading to enhanced user satisfaction and feedback mechanisms. - Drove revenue growth to $500,000 ARR by spearheading the development of key features and functionality, improving user experience and engagement. ### Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack @ Oracle Jan 2019 โ€“ Jan 2019 | Missoula, Montana Area - Created a multi-tenancy paradigm atop the existing single-tenant structure by developing permission-based business partnership functionality, enhancing system versatility and user accessibility. - Reduced app load time by over 50% by implementing a new bundling strategy, significantly improving the immediate user experience. - Increased client convenience by integrating digital and wet ink signature workflows, streamlining the signing process. ### Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack @ goBalto, Inc. (Acquired by Oracle) Jan 2017 โ€“ Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area - Enabled precise data analysis across disparate datasets by designing an advanced import tool for disambiguating drug trial records, enhancing research accuracy and efficiency. - Expanded user accessibility by pioneering the mobile version of the flagship product, making it accessible on a wider range of devices. - Led the development of a user-friendly UI for dataset customization, advancing ease of use and data manipulation capabilities. ### Software Engineer, Full Stack @ goBalto, Inc. (Acquired by Oracle) Jan 2015 โ€“ Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area - Automated customer deployment healthchecking by architecting and engineering an Enterprise Manager Application, enabling non-technical team members to monitor customer deployments. - Facilitated multi-tenancy capabilities by designing and implementing a Central IDM, streamlining account management processes. ### Berkeley Coding Bootcamp Instructor @ UC Berkeley Extension Jan 2017 โ€“ Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area - Mentored aspiring software engineers through immersive coding exercises, lectures, and technical interview preparation ### Bartender @ Doolan Brothers Jan 2013 โ€“ Jan 2014 | Auckland, New Zealand I'll let you take a guess ### Student Body Liaison @ K to College Jan 2011 โ€“ Jan 2013 | Oakland, Ca The Office's Jack of all Trades Organized a 500 person volunteer assembly event, which required coordination with scores of student organizations as well as corporate sponsors and for which we received a City of Berkeley Award from the Berkeley City Council. Collaboratively planned the 2012 Kickoff Banquet and Silent Auction at the Claremont Resort, which raised over $100,000. Prepared presentations to be given to both state and local officials Conducted outreach to Education Administrators in the high risk districts of California Researched at risk districts to help focus our services to where they were needed most Wrote copy for the revamp of the website ### President @ UC Berkeley InterFraternity Council Jan 2012 โ€“ Jan 2012 | Berkeley, Ca Represented the fraternity community in the face of a pending lawsuit and fought proposed city ordinances meant to undermine the well being of our chapter houses Coordinated the actions of the Inter-Fraternity Council in collaboration with my executive council, which included restructuring the Constitution to create a standardized process for adding new chapters to the council Developed and maintained personal relationships with the Berkeley City Council, Campus Leadership Staff, the Pan-Hellenic President, the Fraternity Alumni Council, and the 36 Fraternity Chapter Presidents ### President @ Delta Upsilon, California Chapter Jan 2011 โ€“ Jan 2011 | Berkeley, Ca Heavily restructured the entire constitution and by-laws to gain a pardon from the University and DU International for past offenses committed by the chapter Coordinated the actions of the fraternity in collaboration with my executive council Served as the chief liaison between the Chapter, the Alumni Board, DU International Headquarters, and the University ### V.P. of Communications @ The Magnolia Project Jan 2010 โ€“ Jan 2011 | New Orleans, La Developed and executed the campus outreach and recruitment strategy Taught a spring semester course on New Orleans and the effects of Katrina to the 30 project participants Attended the month long summer service trip to the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans to help rebuild the community that was still devastated by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Led reflection groups in order to help participants vocalize their feelings after witnessing what to many appeared to be a forgotten community ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Theater University of California, Berkeley ### Hack Reactor ### Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dblanchard13 - Website: http://www.davidablanchard.com - Website: https://github.com/dblanchard13 --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidblanchard JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidblanchard/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01