Blake Bailey

• Managed a personal investment portfolio full time for nearly 10 years.
• Self-funded my living expenses from personal investment returns, with no outside capital, advisors, or employer.
• Researched and deployed capital across decentralized finance (DeFi) and on-chain protocols, including yield farming, active trading, and long-term positions.
• Made every allocation, entry, and exit decision independently through market cycles that included multiple major drawdowns.

github.com/Blakells/preflight

• Built an end-to-end pipeline that discovers job postings, scores them against a profile with an LLM, tailors the resume and cover letter, renders PDFs, and hands each application to a Claude Code browser agent.
• Enforced dry runs inside the browser: a guard script in every page and frame blocks the final submit, and a hook refuses JavaScript the agent writes itself, so the agent cannot route around it.
• Supports Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS, Workday and other applicant tracking systems through tested helper scripts and per-ATS playbooks.
• Got past bot detection with the Patchright stealth driver, natural mouse input, CAPTCHA-solving services and proxy routing.
• Covered by 805 offline tests, with a fake LLM server and the guard exercised in real Chromium; CI on Linux + macOS.
• Its private predecessor has submitted 50+ live applications.
• Led development by directing AI coding agents with a test-first workflow and an independent AI code reviewer.

blakells.dev/lantern-hollow

• A small, cozy dungeon crawler in plain JavaScript and Canvas 2D, with no build step and no dependencies.
• Procedurally generated, seedable floors, a light radius that shrinks as the lantern's oil burns, a minimap, and touch controls; installs to an iPhone Home Screen.

• Built a local inference server (4× RTX 6000 Pro) to run language models on my own hardware.

• Analyzed AiM Solo 2 DL data in RaceStudio 3 using custom math channels. Pinpointed missed downshifts, clutch slip, and a lean-angle asymmetry costing lap time.
• Built a custom CSV workflow that overlays wheel speed and slip percentage on onboard video for lap-by-lap review.
• Ran physics-based simulations and engine performance analysis to compare race platforms and set realistic power and weight targets.
• Resolved a clutch switch fault capping RPM, and a tire circumference mismatch that skewed speed data.
• Converted a street motorcycle to race spec: ride-by-wire throttle, master cylinder, brake lines, suspension, exhaust, and ECU tune.
• Background in CAN bus reverse engineering and vehicle telemetry.

• Computer science, Francis Marion University (2020 – 2021)
• Software engineering, Western Governors University (2026)