Blake Rouse Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

London, England, Gb

Lead the technical direction and implementation of the open source Metal as a Service (MAAS) project, designed to provide cloud-like APIs to bare-metal machines, local storage and networks..Responsible for architecture, development and delivery of* 10 major versions w/ over 100 different features* Deployment support for 5 different Linux distributions and Windows* Scale-out high availability architecture (no SPOF)* Multi-architecture support (i386, AMD64, ARM64, Power8, s390)* Real-time web based user interface* Robust API Product development, mentoring and implementation oversight of* 15 engineers across 8 countries* Feature roadmap/implementations* Customer features (Intel, EA Games, Barclays, more)* Ecosystem integrations (tools that interact with MAAS API)* Continuous integration and delivery pipelinesAdditionally responsible for architecting the libmaas client library that provides a tasteful object model to interact with the MAAS API. Contributed to other open source projects in support of MAAS: iPXE, psycopg, gomaasapi, and Juju.In support of the project traveled globally 8 weeks out of the year to interact with customers, develop product roadmaps, architect and design features, and work with key executives.

Washington, Dc, Us

Initiated and lead the architecture and development of a greenfield reverse engineering malware analysis and attribution platform. Responsible for architecture, development and delivery of* Automated virtualization of Windows on Linux KVM* Syscall preload interception on malware execution* Network capture and post runtime analysis* Cross malware behaviour categorization* SPA web interface for upload, analysis report, and similarity searchAdditional responsible for working alongside Special Agents in the Cyber Task Force, analysing and investigating Top Secret cases.Responsibilities alongside Special Agents included* On-premise raid of suspects electronic equipment* On-site preliminary forensic analysis of electronic equipment* Deep forensic analysis of seized electronic equipment* IT security presentations for large companies with attendance of 500+ employeesOther responsibilities included log analysis, software reverse engineering, server and network management.

Washington, Dc, Us

Performed computer forensic examinations as a Certified Computer Forensic Examiner on the Computer Analysis Response Team (CART). Certified and performed the following* Detailed electronic footprint timeline analysis* Presenting gathered findings as a expert witness in a court of lawBuilt a tool used by all CART members across the global to automate the installation and configuration of all forensic analysis tools.Built an internal Top Secret secure network to perform high performance computation to speed up the processing time of computer forensic data.Built a cross-platform client-server application to perform test analysis for computer forensic software.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Computer Engineering & Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering & Computer Science