Summary
Blake Mcbride is a Sr. Technical Account Manager at AWS with eight years of focused experience designing and operating high-availability data center and network architectures. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Cumulus Linux, EVPN/VxLAN, BGP (including unnumbered and multihome), spine-and-leaf fabrics, and automation using Ansible and Git-driven workflows. Blake has a strong security and monitoring orientation—deploying Elastic Stack, Zabbix, Security Onion and MFA integrations across large WAN and datacenter environments—to ensure resilient, auditable systems. His background spans both carrier and enterprise environments, from zero-downtime hospital cores to large-scale cloud account management, and he pairs low-level system skills (Linux, Cobbler, automation scripts) with strategic architecture and operational playbooks. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he blends an electrical and computer engineering foundation with a pragmatic focus on fault-tolerant, automated infrastructure that minimizes operational touch.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Diploma, Honors Diploma at Leo Jr./Sr. High School
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
German, English