Blake Embrey

Working with team to improve resilience of systems, document surface area, reduce SEVs, and build new systems. The most notable systems is an aggregated property data services for search which replaces a legacy and hard to scale system maintained by another team. Small team of three maintaining seven services that underpin all of the major data available at Opendoor such as home information, address standardization, listings, open houses, agent information, and geolocation information.

Partnerships (January 2019 - April 2020) Primarily focused on building out an API for partners (launch partner of Redfin) to request offers through the Opendoor platform. Pricing Data (April 2020 - February 2021) Focused on improving our data accuracy through improvements to our address system, data labeling pipelines that focus on inaccurate or missing data, and image labeling for MLS photos. Data Infra (February 2021 - April 2023) Decreasing the time to launch a new market, migrating to the RESO standard, working on process improvements to decrease occurrences of outages and improve response times, fixing chronic on-call data issues through self service tooling and service improvements, scaling up our services to double market size, and migrating away from legacy monolith to micro services.

Building and improving the real time ingestion of MLS data into our systems. Migrating from a batch to real time system.

Full-stack development consulting. Primary contract is a CRM for United Talent Agency.

Building a project management system with real time chat, channels, and integrated business metrics. A homepage for businesses and projects to collaborate.

Working on Anypoint platform and developing open-source RAML tools to supplement the specification(s) for RESTful API documentation.

Mentor for "Front-End Web Development" and "Learn Node JS".

Next-generation JavaScript web applications, creating and maintaining client-side widgets and libraries, and working on corporate open source software projects. Worked with Walmart Labs to improve open source libraries and built the API Notebook for MuleSoft.

Playing a critical role with a small team of developers in developing and maintaining a high-volume (~1.5 million unique visits per month) real estate website. Some responsibilities included: • Built out new, user-facing features, including a new form system and view templating • Executed on site redesigns, taking mockups from Photoshop to functional, user-facing front- and back-end code • Performed front- and back-end maintenance on a proprietary legacy PHP codebase