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Rex Black

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Infrastructure Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering at Salesforce
📍 Renton, Washington, United States

Rex is a seasoned Performance Architect and Manager with extensive experience optimizing systems at major companies like Salesforce, Disney, and Expedia. He specializes in performance engineering, load testing, and cloud infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as an expert with superb methodology who is highly knowledgeable and success-focused.

Outside of his technical roles, Rex has a background in the U. S. Army, where he developed a value for maintaining a "positive mental attitude. " He also appears to have family connections to Topeka, Kansas.

At Expedia, he successfully re-engineered the performance process, shortening the websites release cycle from three months to weekly in just 11 months.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Infrastructure Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering
Location
Renton, Washington, United States
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Performance Architecture
His entire career is built on performance engineering and architecture, having held senior roles ensuring system capacity, stability, and fast response times at multiple enterprise companies.
Cloud Cost Optimization
At Salesforce, he advised product teams on optimal AWS instance usage and created a dashboard to score instance types based on performance benchmarks and cost.
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Career

Work history

1-2022 - 11-2025
Infrastructure Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering
Salesforce
12-2019 - 1-2022
Lead Performance Engineer - Central Performance Operations
Salesforce
2-2019 - 9-2019
Performance Architect - Contractor
ProKarma
3-2015 - 12-2018
Performance Architect, Principal Performance Engineer, Manager of Performance
Deborex Inc.
3-2013 - 3-2015
Senior Staff Performance Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
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Education
1996 - 1998
BBA
Pittsburg State University
9-1996 - 5-1998
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA
Pittsburg State University
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