Summary
Justin Rich is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer based in Seattle with 13 years of focused experience in DevOps, SRE, and infrastructure automation across startups and enterprise teams. He has a 25-year background in automation and optimization, driving migrations of hundreds of applications, building deployment pipelines, and scaling SRE practices for companies like Shutterstock, VMware, and Cyral. Justin blends hands-on engineering—Terraform, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Jenkins—with developer enablement, training teams to adopt flexible, scalable processes that accelerate change. He’s equally comfortable designing on-prem hardware automation and cloud-native pipelines, having automated large-scale switch and storage deployments as well as containerized app rollouts. Known for pragmatic, repeatable solutions, he often focuses on minimizing on-site toil and making complex migrations auditable and predictable.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
English