Wesley Blake
Head Of Platform Engineering
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolWesley Blake is a seasoned Cloud Architect and DevOps leader with 11+ years building highly available, automated cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across startups and enterprise settings. He founded and runs Strato Technology while serving as Principal Cloud Architect at firms like Pocket Network and Chronicle Labs, specializing in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps and multi-region, production-scale deployments that have handled billions of relays. AWS Certified and Linux-native, he pairs deep systems and scripting skills (Python, JavaScript) with hands-on SRE practices, InfoSec and compliance experience. Notably, he has designed scalable Bitcoin and blockchain-related infrastructures and progressed progressive delivery at high-throughput services. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he blends founder-level ownership with pragmatic architecture for resilient, automated cloud platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Senior Certificate, Maths, Computer Science, English, Zulu, Geography, Business Economics, Matric Senior Certificate, Maths, Computer Science, English, Zulu, Geography, Business Economics at Hillcrest High SchoolNDINL, Information Technology, NDINL, Information Technology at University of South Africa
Zulu, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (145)
python10
testing10
ipfs10
bitnami10
terraform10
charts10
helm10
developer-tools10
kubernetes10
oracles10
continuous-integration10
aws-cloud10
bitcoin10
docker10
localstack10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
WesleyCharlesBlake/k8s-learning
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
WesleyCharlesBlake/raspberry-pi-temperature
Mar 2017 - Dec 2021
OneWire temp logger on RPI, with a remote Grafana and InfluxDB stack deployed with Docker
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 10 months
dockergrafanainfluxdbonewiredocker-compose
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