Richard Howard
Senior SRE at RISC Zero
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Howard is a DevOps Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native infrastructure and SRE practices. He specializes in automation, incident response, and pragmatic tooling that convert chaotic production issues into repeatable, measurable processes. Known for a hands-on, get-things-done approach—aptly captured by his GitHub quip about "attacking a tin shed with a chainsaw"—he thrives on solving thorny operational challenges from the trenches. A husband and father, he brings practical empathy to engineering decisions, prioritizing reliability and reduced toil so teams can move faster.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree of Science, Science, Associates Degree of Science, Science at Portland Community CollegeBachelors Of Arts, Finance, Bachelors Of Arts, Finance at Portland State University - School of Business
Japanese
Github Skills (91)
verifiable10
risc10
microarchitecture10
rust10
sandbox10
operating-systems10
risc-v10
virtual-machine10
cryptography10
blockchain10
lotus9
virtualization9
serverless9
unikernel9
edge-computing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zeroecco/dartspin
Mar 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 2 months
zeroecco/ops
Feb 2022 - Dec 2023
ops - build and run nanos unikernels
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
opsdevopsnanosdockerkubernetes
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