Jon Richards
Enterprise Architect at Nordstrom
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Richards is an Enterprise Architect with nine years of focused software engineering experience and a longer history in systems and server administration, currently shaping cloud and serverless architecture at Nordstrom. He rose through senior engineering and principal roles at Nordstrom, blending hands-on design of large-scale, cloud-native systems with team and project leadership. Earlier roles at the USGS and National Research Corporation reflect deep operational chops—automating flood-modeling pipelines, administering mixed UNIX/Windows environments, and working with large datasets. Jon is based in Tacoma, Washington and brings a pragmatic, infrastructure-first mindset that favors resilient, observable systems and progressive migration to serverless patterns. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational requirements into practical architectures that scale across retail and research domains.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computing and Software Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computing and Software Systems at University of Washington
Github Skills (60)
mesh10
chatgpt10
agentic10
autogen10
binaries10
administration10
ai10
command-line-tool10
cli10
proxy9
golang9
latency9
homebrew9
linkerd9
macos9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jonrichards/autogen-base
May 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 review, 26 PRs, 23 pushes in 7 months
jonrichards/iperf3-ubuntu
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
Automating an amd64 iperf3 Docker image using Ubuntu as the base image.
Contributions:32 PRs, 39 pushes, 32 branches in 4 months
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