Devin

Blais

Seattle, WA
412.867.6418
devinblais@gmail.com

Experience

Opendoor // Senior Engineering Manager

June 2022 - November 2024
Typescript, Ruby, Go, React Native
  • Led all of engineering for Opendoor's zero-to-one initiative with the goal of driving the next evolution of the business
  • Set new standards of engineering excellence resulting in faster product releases and more customer insights
  • Worked closely with cross-functional partners to define business and product strategy resulting in a 60% increase to the business
  • Delivered the largest mobile app update in company history in under half the initially estimated time
  • Drove innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and the web while partnering with teams across the organization
  • Managed, coached, and promoted individuals from junior to senior staff engineers and other engineering managers

Remitly // Senior Engineering Manager

March 2020 - June 2022
Java, Go, React Native
  • Led all of engineering for Remitly’s first zero-to-one initiative: A bank for the underbanked
  • Managed and grew the engineering team across four squads from junior to Principal engineers and engineering managers
  • Transformed the team's hiring process in order to improve speed, candidate experience, and of engineering hires
  • Oversaw feature development on all parts of the banking platform, internal tooling, fraud systems, and acquisition funnels
  • Implemented and ran team agile processes for prioritization, bug triaging, sprint planning, operational excellence, and bi-weekly all-engineering meetings

Textio // Senior Engineer, Engineering Manager

April 2017 - March 2020
Python, Javascript, Node, React, Flask
  • Led the engineering team that was responsible for the flagship Textio.com application and internal tooling
  • Drove cultural, business, and product changes throughout the company via ice breakers, retrospectives, user research, analytics, and other process improvements
  • Helped scale up the company through diverse hiring and process improvements from 30 employees to over 150
  • Lead engineer for user-facing features across the platform as well as personal side-projects that greatly enhanced developer productivity

Mazlo // CTO

May 2013 - April 2017
Ruby, Python, Javascript, Node, React, React Native
  • Built several products, taking them from idea, to MVP, to successful launch
  • Established, grew, and led the team of 10 engineers that built & maintained Mazlo's on-demand coaching service across web, Facebook, iOS, and Android ecosystems.
  • Managed product & technology in areas such as architecture, languages, product planning strategy, milestones, user research, and business development, across multiple major pivots.

Freelance

November 2011 - May 2013
Rails, Python, Javascript, CSS, HTML
  • Interim CTO for TadPoll to bring transparency to government.
  • Founded Dabblr, a big data, event discovery and management service.
  • First engineer at Ritani, brought on to help design, build, and launch Ritani.com.

Dashwire // Software Engineer

June 2011 - November 2011
Ruby, Javascript, CSS, HTML
  • Developer lead for DashWire’s smartphone setup application (acquired by HTC)

Amazon // Software Engineer

January 2009 - June 2011
Mason, Perl, Javascript, CSS, HTML
  • Developer/designer/ux specialist across organizations within Amazon

Education

Carnegie Mellon University // BS Information Systems, MS Human Computer Interaction
August 2004 - December 2008

Double Major in Human Computer Interaction