
AI Engineer
Building production AI systems that scale. Specializing in intelligent automation, multi-agent architectures, and MLOps pipelines that drive real business impact.
Client: Regional nonwovens fabric manufacturer • $5M+ revenue • 40+ employees
Web platform replacing spreadsheet workflows with centralized order management, job optimization, and real-time production tracking across day and night shifts.
Core Features
Order Management
Shift Reporting:
Deployment:
"Blake has been an excellent partner and very easy to work with. He automated a significant portion of our planning workload, enabling meaningful efficiency gains on the production line."
— T. Robbins, CEO
Client: National windows manufacturer • $30M+ revenue • 50+ employees
Multi-page internal analytics dashboard for leadership, sales management, and account teams to monitor performance, client activity, quotes, discounts, and product trends. Consolidates invoice, quote, and product-level data with filtering by client, rep, product line, geography, and time period.
Core Features
Analytics & Reporting:
Deployment:
Client: Regional university • 1000+ students
Advising platform automating degree audits, course history review, and course recommendations. Centralizes student records and program requirements for tracking degree progress and supporting advising decisions.
Core Features
Degree Tracking:
Course Recommendations:
Implementation:
Production email automation platform using LangGraph multi-agent workflows for intelligent email classification, prioritization, and response generation. Implemented vector-based memory retrieval with Pinecone and cost-optimized inference by hosting DeepSeek on RunPod, achieving 94.2% classification accuracy and processing 150 emails/minute with <2.5s response times.
Technical Highlights:
Personal project building sophisticated email intelligence system combining RoBERTa sentiment analysis, UMAP+HDBSCAN clustering, and predictive analytics. Features multimodal processing with BLIP/CLIP vision models, semantic search with FAISS/Weaviate, and agent-based architecture processing 5M+ emails.
Technical Highlights:
"Blake consistently broke down complex problems into manageable parts and delivered thoughtful, efficient solutions. His accountability, attention to detail, and drive to improve made a real impact on both our operations and team culture."
Kevin Yen
CEO & Co-Founder, FlowData.ai
"Blake led cross-functional teams, built engaging educational products, and consistently pushed to improve our programs and processes. He's sharp, driven, and brings a contagious energy to the team."
Alex Duffy
Head of AI, Every Inc.
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