Dominik Richter is a product-focused engineering leader and co-founder with over a decade building security, cloud, and developer tooling across startups and enterprises. He founded and scaled products that became industry-standard security automation (InSpec/Chef Compliance) and now leads Mondoo to help teams query and remediate infrastructure issues across cloud, containers, and on-prem. His background blends full-stack engineering (Go, Scala, Ruby, React) with deep DevOps and cloud expertise (Kubernetes, AWS, serverless) and hands-on offensive security (OSCE). At Google he shipped ML-driven recommendations and low-code workflow automation for GCP, demonstrating a knack for turning data and automation into measurable cost, security, and productivity gains. He’s known for building trust-based, experimental teams that ship frequently and for coaching engineers into senior technical and leadership roles. Based in Los Angeles, he combines product intuition, security rigor, and a founder’s bias for rapid customer-validated iteration.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, Master of Engineering, Information and Communication Technology at University of Applied Sciences Leipzig
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer sciences with a focus on telecommunications / Telekommunikationsinformatik, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer sciences with a focus on telecommunications / Telekommunikationsinformatik at University of Applied Sciences Leipzig / Deutsche Telekom Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig
Contributions:2 releases, 39 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
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