Blake Archer

Blake Archer

Product Engineer

Murfreesboro, TN · blarcher31@gmail.com

Summary

Full stack product engineer with 4+ years of experience building and owning customer facing SaaS products end to end. Strongest in React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, with experience spanning product discovery, UX, implementation, analytics, and iteration based on customer feedback.

Experience

  • Product Engineer / Product Lead, OpenGraph.io

    SecureCoders

    OpenGraph.io (Lead Product Engineer)

    • Own product and engineering for OpenGraph.io, a developer SaaS platform that evolved from a single Link Preview API into a broader suite of APIs, developer tools, and no code products based on customer feedback, usage patterns, and product opportunities.
    • Take products and major features from discovery and scoping through design, implementation, launch, analytics, and iteration across the API platform, dashboard, onboarding, playground, and developer tools.
    • Designed and shipped new product areas including content extraction, screenshot capture, Site Audit, and related developer tooling.
    • Build and maintain full stack product features using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma/Sequelize, and third party integrations.
    • Improve developer experience through onboarding, API playground workflows, dashboard UX, usage visibility, and product education.
    • Use customer feedback, PostHog, GA4, Segment, and A/B testing to evaluate activation, conversion, and product usage and determine what to improve or build next.
    • Partner across product and marketing on acquisition, activation, and monetization initiatives that contributed to 55% YoY MRR growth and 80% growth over three years.
    • Improved application performance and maintainability through major platform upgrades, including React 16 to 18, Node 12 to 22, and migration to Redux Toolkit.

    Digital Footprint Monitoring (Security)

    • Deliver weekly SOC level reports.
    • Triage findings from public source code repositories and dark web monitoring, assign severities, and document actionable remediations.
    • Apply a security first mindset across discovery, triage, and reporting, emphasizing severity based prioritization and clear remediation guidance.
  • Web Developer Intern, WaxEloquent

    Sep 2020 to Dec 2020

    • Worked on WordPress sites with a focus on custom HTML/CSS components.

Skills

  • Product Engineering

    Product discovery, user feedback, SaaS onboarding, developer experience, technical writing, support driven iteration, A/B testing

  • Frontend

    React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, MUI, responsive UI, component architecture

  • Backend / API

    Node.js, Express, REST APIs, API design, authentication, third party integrations

  • ORMs

    Prisma, Sequelize

  • Data

    PostgreSQL, SQL, Elasticsearch, Prisma, Sequelize

  • Analytics and Delivery

    PostHog, GA4, Segment, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, CI/CD, production debugging, logs and monitoring

Education

  • Jefferson R-7 High School

    Diploma, May 2013