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I'm Jermaine Blake

Software Developer

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About Me

I’m a Full Stack Developer and Technical Lead with 5 years of experience building scalable, high-impact applications. With a background in management and expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS, and PostgreSQL, I combine strong technical depth with clear decision-making and team leadership.


I’m driven by technology’s power to solve real-world problems and thrive in environments where creativity meets structure. Whether architecting backend systems, mentoring teammates, or turning ideas into reliable, user-centered products.


What excites me most are those “A-HA” moments when curiosity and persistence lead to elegant solutions for complex technical challenges. Outside of work, I stay inspired through gaming, music, travel and sports, which keep my problem-solving instincts sharp and my creativity alive.

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Projects

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Simon

Simon

My take on the classic game of Simon. This was my first time working with asynchronous code and this was my first deployed app.

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Corona Cafeteria

Corona Cafeteria

This app was made with the Coronavirus pandemic in mind. It was created to provide restaurants/bars a way to update the status of their establishment in real-time. And for potenital customers to be able to view the status of all the restaurants on the site and leave comments.

This app includes full CRUD and OAuth. It was built with Node.js, Express, and Mongoose

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Trivia Night

Trivia Night

Collaborated on this project to create our take on the classic bar trivia game. Our game is played in real-time and is multiplayer.

This app includes CRUD and was built with DJANGO & POSTGRESQL

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Best Budz

Best Budz

Cannabis consumption diary. Utilizing forms to help document one's experience with different strains of cannabis.

This app includes full CRUD and was built with MERN stack

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Son Ofa B

Son Ofa B

Realtime multiplayer card game. Based on the classic trick taking game, Oh Hell.

This desktop/tablet app was built with MERN stack and Socket.io

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Do it

Do it

Do It is a full-stack task management solution that streamlines your workflow with intelligent task organization, priority management, and progress tracking.

This responsive app was built with Bun, React, Shadcn UI, PostgreSQL, and Drizzle ORM.

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Obsidi

Obsidi

Multi-Sided Networking Platform.

Built (from inception) and launched this enterprise app as part of a cross-functional team.

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