I am Blake Henry, a Senior Lead Full Stack Engineer and Software Architect with 10+ years of experience delivering scalable .NET systems across e-commerce, healthcare, and insurance. I specialize in high-traffic microservices, performance-tuned APIs, SQL optimization, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native delivery on Azure and AWS. I am a backend-focused engineer who also builds strong front-end interfaces with React, Angular, MVC, and Blazor. I enjoy mentoring teams, setting technical direction, and delivering durable, production-ready code that drives measurable business impact.

I am Blake Henry, a Senior Lead Full Stack Engineer and Software Architect with 10+ years of experience delivering scalable .NET systems across e-commerce, healthcare, and insurance. I specialize in high-traffic microservices, performance-tuned APIs, SQL optimization, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native delivery on Azure and AWS. I am a backend-focused engineer who also builds strong front-end interfaces with React, Angular, MVC, and Blazor. I enjoy mentoring teams, setting technical direction, and delivering durable, production-ready code that drives measurable business impact.

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I am Blake Henry, a Senior Lead Full Stack Engineer and Software Architect with 10+ years of experience delivering scalable .NET systems across e-commerce, healthcare, and insurance. I specialize in high-traffic microservices, performance-tuned APIs, SQL optimization, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native delivery on Azure and AWS.

I am a backend-focused engineer who also builds strong front-end interfaces with React, Angular, MVC, and Blazor. I enjoy mentoring teams, setting technical direction, and delivering durable, production-ready code that drives measurable business impact.

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Work Experience

Lead Full Stack Engineer | Tech Lead at eBay, Inc
August 1, 2021 - Present
Modernized global checkout and order-processing by redesigning legacy components into .NET 6 microservices on Azure AKS, delivering faster, more resilient architecture. Led a 12-person Agile team, mentored two juniors, and architected the high-traffic checkout/orchestration layer achieving sub-200 ms transactions during peak events. Built a domain-driven microservices ecosystem using DDD/clean architecture, introduced event-driven workflows with Azure Event Hub, Service Bus, and Durable Functions, and optimized SQL Server/EF Core with partitioning. Implemented Redis caching to reduce reads, and delivered zero-downtime multi-region deployments via AKS pipelines. Strengthened security and observability with OAuth/OIDC, DataDog, and App Insights.
Senior Software Engineer | Cloud Engineer at Baylor Scott & White Health
March 1, 2018 - July 1, 2021
Supported core patient scheduling, care-coordination, eligibility and provider-data systems on the core platform. Modernized WebForms scheduling and intake workflows into ASP.NET MVC and Angular 11, improving UI stability. Rebuilt backend scheduling and intake services as .NET Core microservices on AWS Lambda, reducing bottlenecks and appointment delays during high-volume periods. Implemented FHIR-compliant patient/provider synchronization using API Gateway and DynamoDB; built real-time clinical event pipelines with AWS Kinesis and Lambda; optimized provider search with SQL stored procedures and DynamoDB caching; established centralized logging with Serilog and CloudWatch, cutting MTTR by 50%.
Software Engineer at Movitus (former AgileThought, Inc)
September 1, 2015 - February 1, 2018
Developed backend modules for policy, billing and claims using ASP.NET MVC, Kendo UI, SOAP and ADO.NET. Optimized SQL Server databases via stored procedures, indexing and parameterized queries. Implemented data-access layers using Dapper and repository patterns; built admin and agent-facing front-end screens with MVC views, jQuery, Knockout.js and Kendo UI; implemented LINQ and ADO.NET for database communication. Improved system reliability with carrier API integrations and structured logging; built unit and integration tests to reduce regression; contributed to performance-tuning to handle monthly spikes.

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Retail, Professional Services