Blake Fallow
Sr. Platform Engineering Manager
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorBlake Fallow is a senior platform engineering manager with 11+ years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for ecommerce, fintech, and medical environments. He has a proven record of driving reliability to 99.99% uptime, cutting infrastructure costs by ~30%, and managing multi-million-dollar budgets while ensuring compliance with PCI, HIPAA, SOC2 and SOX. Deeply versed in IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), CaC (Ansible), Kubernetes (bare-metal and managed), CI/CD, and containerization, he bridges day-to-day SRE operations with strategic platform vision. Blake excels at designing immutable infrastructure, federated K8s clusters, and migrations from legacy systems to containerized deployments. Based in Boca Raton, he combines practical systems engineering (Linux, networking, databases, message brokers) with people leadership—recruiting and developing critical support teams. A detail that often gets overlooked: he routinely delivers large infrastructure projects on time and under budget, reflecting both technical rigor and strong vendor/procurement negotiation skills.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
vpc5
configuration-manager4
networking4
kong3
configuration-management3
drift3
aws3
declarative2
kong-plugin2
gitops2
cuelang2
kubernetes2
terraform1
terraform-module1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
blakefallow/Projects
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:79 commits, 4 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 4 months
blakefallow/development
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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