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Blake Scrivner

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Director of Core Engineering at Expel
📍 Portland, Oregon, United States

Blake is an engineering leader at Expel with over 12 years of experience specializing in SRE and Platform Engineering. He has a proven track record of driving reliability and efficiency, notably achieving over 99. 95% availability at Zendesk while reducing observability expenses by $15 million. He holds a Computer Science degree from San Jose State University.

After two decades in tech, Blake took a two-year sabbatical to recharge, during which he advised an AI startup and volunteered. He is recognized by colleagues for his positive attitude, technical expertise, and calm, enjoyable guidance, with a particular talent for mentoring junior engineers and getting the best out of his staff.

Unique fact: Blake transformed Blackboards on-premise software, which required over 24 hours of downtime for upgrades, into a zero-downtime AWS SaaS offering.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Director of Core Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Portland, Oregon, United States
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SRE & DevOps
His career is built on SRE principles, having built and scaled reliability engineering organizations from the ground up at companies like Zendesk and now leading SRE at Expel.
Scaling Eng Teams
He has extensive experience building and directing globally distributed engineering organizations of up to 75 people, focusing on infrastructure, security, and developer experience.
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Career

Work history

12-2025
Director of Core Engineering
Expel
9-2023 - 12-2025
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Career Break
1-2023 - 9-2023
Sr Director of Engineering Services
Zapier
9-2021 - 12-2022
Sr Director of Engineering, Reliability
Zendesk
1-2018 - 8-2021
Director of Engineering, Reliability
Zendesk
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