Blake Wrege
Site Reliability Engineer at Apple
Elk Grove, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBlake Wrege is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining resilient infrastructure, currently driving reliability at Apple. He combines a strong networking and systems background—Active Directory, DHCP/DNS, VMware, Samba—with software skills in Python, Bash, Java, PHP and automation tooling like Ansible to manage clusters and servers at scale. His early research work at Western Michigan University involved deploying and operating Apache Spark and Hadoop clusters and integrating monitoring (Ganglia, Nagios) and security scanning (Nessus, OpenVAS), reflecting a practical mix of big-data ops and security awareness. Blake’s cross-platform administration experience (Windows, Linux, FreeNAS) and scripting for deployment and backups show a knack for pragmatic tooling that keeps services reliable. Based in Elk Grove, CA, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a proven track record of translating academic parallel-computing projects into production-ready infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Lake Michigan CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Western Michigan University
English
Stackoverflow
33reputation
1kreached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (37)
lan9
background-image9
dm7
esp326
arduino6
prims-algorithm6
spark-graphx6
scala6
debugging6
graph-algorithms6
apache-spark6
unit-testing5
arm5
embedded5
esp82665
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
blakewrege/blakewrege.github.io
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year 4 months
ccowmu/whatistheplan.com
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Reimagined Parkview LAN Party site
Contributions:16 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
partytilesetbackground-imagelandm
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.