Blake Golliher

Skills

Leadership, Technical Strategy, Engineering Management, Inspiring teams

Programming

Familarity with most popular languages.

Tesla Sr. Staff Engineer - Nov 2021 - Right Now!

• Platform Engineering ownership of the Storage Plank
• Responsible Platform Engineering Object Storage company wide
• First Principals around service offering and ownership

Instacart Sr. Engineering Manager - Feb 2021 - Nov 2021

• Responsible for Incident Response, and RCA
• Dev/Staging environment Management
• Observability Engineering
• As well as other things (Cloud Spend, WebServ layer, etc.).

Box Inc. Senior Manager Engineering - Dec 2018 - Feb 2021

• Built and developed talented teams of engineers solving problems though software
• co-led a hybrid team engineers modeling finances, helped win massive discounts on public cloud
• Took over and hired a brand new Observability Engineering team
• Took over and led a brand new Data Analytics Infra team

Apple Inc. Security Engineer - Dec 2017 - Dec 2018

• Software Engineering / Delivery Org Hardening
• Proxy Services DRI
• Ensuring Secure practices in custom software for MacOS/IOs build trains

Amazon AWS Sr. Technical Account Manager - Feb 2017 - Nov 2017

• Led Automation Efforts inside of AWS Global Support
• Provided Support to AWS's largest customer
• Founded Field SRE team

Apple Inc. SRE Manager - Aug 2011 - Feb 2017

• Technical vision and leadership for iTunes Storage Infrastructure
• Cofounded Blob SRE team working with Development (DevOps)
• Managed team building a self provisioning web service

Dreamworks Animation Studios Inc. Sr. Architect - Aug 2010 - July 2011

• Designed and built next generation storage and network infrastructure
• Supported render animation, backend support infrastrucutre, and Oracle DB
• Designed and implemented first large scale SAN in the environment

Facebook Inc. Sr. Architect - Nov 2006 - Nov 2008

• Owned production storage for photo, video, log, and everything inbetween
• Hired staff of 4, build run books, automation and monitoring

Yahoo! Inc. Architect - Sept 2005 - Nov 2006

• Responsible for for architecture and engineering storage for Yahoo! Mail, Oracle DB and few other properties
• Build run books, started automation and monitoring of devices

Mount Sierra College - Pasadena, CA

Major: Telecom Technologies
Minor: Goofing Around