Blake Holifield
Backend Engineer at Epic Games
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBlake Holifield is a backend engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, APIs, and automation for high-scale platforms. He has advanced from SDN/NFV and network services work at ADTRAN to managing Kubernetes operators and shared Go services at Red Hat, and now helps power Unreal Cloud Services for Epic Games. Blake specializes in bridging developer productivity and platform experience—migrating legacy frontends to containerized deployments and creating Backstage plugins to streamline developer workflows. Based in Raleigh, he combines hands-on systems engineering with a knack for pragmatic automation that reduces operational toil. Colleagues rely on him for durable API design and scalable deployment patterns that support large, complex product ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Engineering, Pre-Engineering at Jones County Junior CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (45)
redhat10
backend10
operator-sdk10
operator10
testing9
pdf9
cloud-services9
react9
chrome9
role-based-access-control9
frontend9
monorepo8
console-application8
pendo8
rbac7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RedHatInsights/app-common-js
Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 12 PRs in 2 years 8 months
BlakeHolifield/clowder
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
PoC operator for operating cloud.redhat.com
Contributions:206 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 11 months
redhat-cloudoperatoroperatingkubernetespoc
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