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Blake Ashley

@blakeashley1

Platform engineer and founding CTO at SellsAdvisors; built DealOS, an M&A platform running at 99.99% uptime.

At SellsAdvisors, I built DealOS, an M&A firm management platform covering the full deal lifecycle. It runs on Kubernetes via OpenTofu at 99.99% uptime.

At Dodge & Cox, I stabilized trading-support infrastructure, cutting incident load by 75%, and helped reduce cloud costs by more than $15,000 per month. I also aligned engineering controls with SEC, FINRA, and SOX requirements.

At Washington University in St. Louis, I operated an AKS platform hosting more than 1,000 WordPress sites at 99.99% uptime, and built a Go CLI that cut support tickets from more than 300 to under 20 per month. I automate infrastructure and delivery with tools such as Terraform, Bicep, and CI/CD so teams can ship without filing a ticket.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Chief Technology Officer

Current

SellsAdvisors

Jul 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Built DealOS, a complete M&A firm management platform covering the full deal lifecycle, hosted on Kubernetes via OpenTofu at 99.99% uptime. Architected scalable, event-driven Go and Rust microservices over NATS with REST and gRPC APIs, PostgreSQL, and Redis.

Go Rust Kubernetes OpenTofu NATS REST gRPC PostgreSQL Redis Temporal CI CD PostHog Sentry Grafana Loki Prometheus Tailscale SSO Pitchbook Capital IQ Exa SEC Form ADV Salesforce HubSpot Data Migration

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Dodge & Cox

Apr 2024 - Jul 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Stabilized core trading-support infrastructure and improved bond-strategy efficiency, cutting incident load by 75% for a system used daily by 100+ users. Re-engineered a critical trading workflow to reduce end-user latency and page load from several seconds to a few hundred milliseconds.

Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Terraform Bicep Azure Key Vault Prometheus Grafana azure monitor Application Insights Helm Kubernetes SEC Rule 17a 4 FINRA SOX CI CD Policy as Code Cost Optimization Incident Response

Senior DevOps Engineer

Washington University in St. Louis

Jul 2022 - Apr 2024 (1 year 9 months)

Architected and operated AKS hosting 1,000+ WordPress sites serving 3M+ page views per month at 99.99% uptime on Azure Blob Storage, Load Balancer, and Database for MySQL. Built a 50,000-line Go CLI platform using Cobra for self-service infrastructure, cutting support tickets from 300+ to under 20 per month.

DevOps Engineer & Cloud Architect

Freelance

Apr 2017 - Jun 2022 (5 years 2 months)

Designed scalable, multi-region Azure and Kubernetes infrastructure for clients using Terraform, Ansible, and Bicep, standardizing environments across dev, staging, and production. Stood up CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines, moving clients from monthly to multiple daily releases with automated testing and rollbacks.