Rick Highness
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Kount, an Equifax Company
Meridian, Idaho, United States
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SeniorRick Highness is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering Manager with over twenty years of hands-on IT leadership and infrastructure experience. He currently leads SRE at Kount, an Equifax Company, focusing on reliability, monitoring, and scalable operations. Rick has a track record of building centralized monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery capabilities—spanning Nagios, Splunk, MySQL replication, and 24/7 NOC documentation systems. His career includes leadership roles at Yahoo!, VSP Global, and Premier Retail Networks, where he drove deployment efficiency, outage analysis, and cross-team collaboration to keep critical services online at scale. A proven communicator and coach, Rick pairs tactical planning with diplomacy to align diverse stakeholders around reliable, cost-effective IT solutions. Based in Meridian, Idaho, he brings a broad history of enabling mission-critical platforms across media, healthcare, finance, and retail.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (48)
mercurial7
azure6
web-services6
cli6
foreach6
email-validation6
jstl6
java6
command-line-interface6
jsp6
mysql6
pfsense5
deploying4
azure-cli4
maxmind4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ridgebackdad/awesome-app-v1
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
ridgebackdad/starter-web
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 days
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