Blake Pettersson
Senior Solutions Architect at Akuity - Secure, Scalable and Simpler Argo
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolBlake Pettersson is a Senior Solutions Architect based in Barcelona with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, DevOps tooling, and scalable backend systems. He combines deep production experience—at companies from Videoplaza and Aptible to startups he co-founded—with recent work at Akuity enabling simpler, secure Argo-based deployments. An active maintainer on the Argo CD project, Blake has fixed security vulnerabilities, implemented destination/source controls, and shipped features that make self-service GitOps safer and more maintainable. He’s equally comfortable writing Terraform and Lambda automation for multi-account AWS setups as he is contributing to core open-source Kubernetes deployment tooling. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex platform problems into pragmatic, auditable solutions that speed developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
KY, Oracle DBA, KY, Oracle DBA at NTI-skolan
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Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-cd
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:750 reviews, 5 commits, 397 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Blake contributed to the core functionality of Argo CD, including features around cluster generator values interpolation, project destination management, and source repository access control. They implemented new features, such as denying destinations and sources based on patterns, and fixed critical issues, including a security vulnerability related to a billion-laughs attack vector, and ensuring certificate updates upon server reloads. Additionally, the user improved the project's maintainability, and helped to address issues around resource management, including enhancements for managed namespaces, as well as improvements to the UI.
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blakepettersson/kargo
Mar 2024 - Feb 2026
Application lifecycle orchestration
Contributions:50 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
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