Blake Golliher
Field CTO at VAST Data
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Golliher is a Field CTO and storage engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms across Tesla, Box, Apple and other high-performance environments. He’s driven exabyte-class NVMe object storage deployments, designed tape-archival proxies, and led teams that moved core infrastructure from AWS to GCP while modernizing observability and storage stacks. A longtime Linux (and closet BSD) enthusiast, Blake blends deep systems-level expertise with product-minded leadership—at Tesla he also acted as product manager for an internal object storage platform. Based in Fremont, CA, he’s equally comfortable in hardware qualification, data center and network architecture, and shipping Rust-based storage components, and he collects Batman comics and music gear when he’s not optimizing TCO.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Telecomunications Technology, Telecomunications Technology at Mt Sierra CollegeNetwork Engineering Certificate, Network Engineering Certificate at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension
Github Skills (17)
newsletter9
logging9
open-source7
blockdevice5
nvme5
benchmark4
deep-learning3
gpu3
parallel3
filesystem3
hdfs3
linux3
storage3
windows3
block-storage2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
blakegolliher/isilon-rest-example
Jun 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 4 years 10 months
blakegolliher/boxes
Dec 2015 - Apr 2025
Contributions:5 pushes in 9 years 5 months
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