Christopher Blake
Welcome

I am a Sr. Inner Source Engineer (🤓) in the Edge Solutions team at the Baker Hughes' Energy Innovation Center (EIC) in Oklahoma City. Our goal is to develop early technologies for digital transformation 🚧 and energy transition 💚. We have dedicated teams in areas like Cyber Physical, Intelligent Control, and Sustainability. And because collaboration is critical, we also actively partner with other divisions of Baker Hughes and external organizations like Oklahoma State University, Microsoft, and Google.

My current focus at the EIC is on crowdsourced coding guidelines, internal open source (inner source), and generally improving our coding posture. I (try to) manage 🧐 the enterprise github organization for 1.8k+ repos / 350+ people, regularly contribute on projects ranging from machine learning / computer vision, code archicture, edge analytics, simple refactoring and documentation. I additionally try to be a mentor for using Git (source control), good software development techniques (cough... unit tests... haha), Azure cloud, and sometimes presentation techniques (without powerpoints 🤯).

Finally, I very proud to be an advocate for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) via LatinX, in particular as a co-leader of events (and the tech guy). I previously organized the "Connection" committee and "Community" committee, but those leaders are now awesome and running on their own! 🏁 So, now I'm mostly the organizer/host of the (bi)monthly "Interactive Training Series" where we pick a topic such as "Collaboration with Office 365" or "Task Management Techniques" and I essentially drive discussion about nerdy features but in everyday language(~130-150ppl per session). Also, I sorta make that cool web app/game activity tracker each Hispanic Heritage Month. 😎

My Philosophy
  1. Always be present, you might notice an opportunity.
  2. If you don't agree, try on the other perspective first.
  3. Your life is defined by your relationships, perception, and honor. In the end, it's all you have.
  4. Live life through choice, not habits.
  5. Be a stand for others; support them. Don't correct or try to teach them.
  6. Know when to break the rules. There are always exceptions.