# Blake Watters

> Blake Watters is a New York-based software engineer, RestKit creator, and Founding Engineer, Principal at Baselayer. His public work includes Objective-C libraries, developer education, and Python infrastructure tooling. Arrow LSAT also lists him as CTO and co-founder.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer, Principal at Baselayer
- **Organizations:** Baselayer, RestKit, Two Toasters, GateGuru, Opsani, Arrow LSAT
- **Education:** University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- **Known for:** Created RestKit, an open-source framework for consuming and modeling RESTful resources on iOS and OS X., Published TransitionKit, an Objective-C state machine library., Published RakeUp, originally developed to manage RestKit’s local HTTP test server.

## Career timeline

- **2002–2004** — Lists attendance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on LinkedIn.
- **2009** — Original author of OTRestFramework, developed in summer 2009.
- **2010** — OTRestFramework became RestKit and broadened into an HTTP toolkit and object mapping system.
- **2011** — Identified as Two Toasters CTO; published a RestKit tutorial and presented at MobileCampRDU.
- **—** — His Stack Overflow biography identifies him as VP of Engineering at GateGuru.
- **2020** — Credited as author of the Opsani servo-webhooks Python package.
- **2026** — Public profiles identify him as Founding Engineer, Principal at Baselayer; Arrow LSAT lists him as CTO and co-founder.

## Achievements

- Created RestKit, an open-source framework for consuming and modeling RESTful resources on iOS and OS X.
- Published TransitionKit, an Objective-C state machine library.
- Published RakeUp, originally developed to manage RestKit’s local HTTP test server.
- Authored the Opsani servo-webhooks Python package.
- Published a 2011 tutorial explaining RestKit and its use in iOS applications.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Baselayer, his current employer, announced a $35 million Series A led by M13 and the launch of its Agentic Identity Suite. The press release is datelined September 22 and the page is dated September 28.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakewatters
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/blakewatters
- GitHub: https://github.com/blakewatters

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Last updated: 2026-10-07