Summary
Eric Blake is a senior software engineer based in Mountain View with a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems using Kubernetes, Go, and Docker. His career spans major platforms and infrastructure roles at Apple, Splunk, and Google, where he focused on release engineering and scalable cloud services. Currently at IXL Learning, he brings deep operational knowledge from both startup and enterprise environments, bridging DevOps practices with software engineering. Known for tackling complex build/release challenges, he has a long history in configuration and release engineering dating back to Sun/IBM-era tooling. Eric combines pragmatic implementation skills with a knack for smoothing the path from development to production in high-demand systems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of the Pacific