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Senior Web Developer
WordPress · JavaScript · PHP
30+ CMS projects across agency and in-house roles, with consistent improvements in site speeds going down from 5-3 seconds to 2-1 seconds. I've been involved in multiple 1,000 page migrations across my 15 year career seeing 50% increase in organic traffic after massive site overhauls.
Public repos and tools on GitHub
A WordPress starter framework for building custom block themes using Full Site Editing (FSE), modern build tooling, and a Docker-first local development workflow.
Language
PHP
A WordPress plugin for displaying exit intent and timed popups with A/B testing and Google Analytics 4 integration.
Language
PHP
A fast, native macOS image gallery and viewer built with Swift and SwiftUI. No Xcode required — built entirely with Swift Package Manager from the command line.
Language
Swift
Selected client case studies
Prism's line-numbers plugin froze the wrong line heights onto the gutter, leaving the numbers drifting below the code. The cause was a white-space race with a deferred stylesheet, and the fix was one rule in the critical CSS.
Self-hosted Lato and Inter were dragging down a Next.js build. Subsetting the glyphs with pyftsubset and re-compressing with brotli cut the font payload by roughly 89%. Here are the commands, the real before and after numbers, the localization tradeoffs, and the risks.
The Shai Hulud worm hit TanStack and 170+ other npm packages by poisoning a pnpm store cache in GitHub Actions. Here is how the attack worked and the concrete steps I took to harden my own projects against it.
"Blake is, without exaggeration, the most capable web developer I've worked with. He combines deep technical expertise with calm, focused execution, even under the most intense deadlines."
"Blake is one of the nicest, most patient, and dependable developers I've ever worked with. You will very rarely hear a simple 'no' from him. He's the kind of guy that looks for solutions and ways to get to yes."
"Blake is relentless in his pursuit to create solutions to technical problems and yet knows when to offer up variable solutions if a path would extend beyond the budget or timeframe available."
