Christian Blakely
Director Of Engineering at GitHub
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Blakely is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience modernizing infrastructure and building automation-first operations teams, now serving as Director of Engineering at GitHub. He has led platform and SRE transformations across media and cloud businesses, including leadership roles at Warner Bros. Discovery, iStreamPlanet, and ForgeRock. Christian excels at turning traditional ops groups into SREs, blending hands-on systems engineering with strategic technical leadership to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he brings deep expertise in on-prem, virtual, and cloud automation and a pragmatic focus on people development and operational excellence. An early technologist with roots in systems administration and network engineering, he combines long-term systems knowledge with contemporary cloud-native practices.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
North Seattle CollegeSeattle Central College
Github Skills (45)
staging10
openwrt10
movie9
forgerock8
docker8
stash8
nginx-ingress8
identity8
cobbler7
transmission7
usenet7
helm7
kubernetes-deployment7
vagrant7
python7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cblakely/openwrt
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
linux-distributionlinuxembedded-devicesembeddeddistribution
cblakely/openwrt-elk-dashboard
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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