Bryce Blankinship

Co-founder of ButterPhone, a startup that provides AI-powered phone calls for restaurants.

• • ButterPhone takes orders, reservations, and payments for restaurants over the phone.
• • ButterPhone picks up every phone call in parallel, meaning there's never a missed call.
• • ButterPhone learns from conversations with customers, and gives restaurants actionable insights to improve their business.
• • ButterPhone communicates with customers after their visit, and can recover dissatisfied customers that would not otherwise return, and also promote happy customers to leave a review online -- directly driving revenue.

Developed PatentFlip, a marketplace for buying and selling patents.

• • Adapted quickly to changing product requirements & features
• • Worked with stakeholders directly as the sole Software Engineer
• • Consulted stakeholders on hiring a UX designer
• • Provisioned the entire application infrastructure in Google Cloud

Developed Lookio, a social media auditor that creates insights for employers.

• • Developed robust web scrapers that run on a distributed residential proxy network
• • Fine-tuned various LLMs for document extraction & sentiment analysis
• • Worked with stakeholders directly as the sole Software Engineer
• • Consulted stakeholders on hiring a UX designer
• • Provisioned the entire application infrastructure in Google Cloud

Working across multiple teams within the Pricing organization.

• • Managed deployments for the PaCMan team
• • Helped shape the tech stack for Merch UX Architecture
• • Managed two Software Engineers on a UI migration effort spanning over 20 frontends

Worked in various departments day-to-day as needed.

My ability to learn quickly and flexible schedule allowed me to work almost anywhere in the store. I really enjoyed walking the floor and helping customers when there wasn't assigned work.

Digital makeover for Global Driving School NJ.

My fraternity brother's parents were in the market for a new website for their driving school. He showed them I was of good value, and they agreed. They were so pleased with the results that they paid me more money than I had asked for.

Really simple website for a local real estate company.

My old boss at the Home Depot store I worked at let me know a friend of theirs was looking for a website for their real estate business.

Rebranded Greenway Car Wash to Speedline Car Wash.

This was the first paid project I ever did. I wanted to get exposure to working with people who have real businesses and real needs, so I went on my local Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce business directory and called every business that had an old website. When Lenny picked up the phone for (now) Speedline, he said it was great timing because they were about to rebrand their car wash. I still talk on the phone with Lenny every now and then, and I always credit him to starting my journey into commercial work.

The website I built for them was retired, because an ad agency took over digital operations after I left for college. The link points to the development domain, and the site doesn't fully work anymore because of that.