Michael Richard
Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer at Southwest Airlines
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Richard is a Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and automating secure, scalable infrastructure across regulated and enterprise environments. He currently focuses on cybersecurity automation and acceleration at Southwest Airlines, and previously led multi-cloud CI/CD, IaC, and migration efforts at Liatrio and Getty Images using tools like AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, and Helm. Michael blends deep operational expertise—from datacenter migrations and NIST-aligned audits to large-scale monitoring and networking—with a passion for teaching and reducing complexity through standards and automation. Known for turning ambiguous requirements into auditable, repeatable pipelines, he pairs practical scripting and systems knowledge with a curiosity for emerging tech that helps teams move faster and safer.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (33)
minecraft9
aws9
ignite9
terraform-module9
angular-schema-form9
json-ui-schema9
puppet8
docker-desktop8
terraform8
leaflet8
json-schema8
angularjs7
vault7
angular7
security6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
liatrio/liatrio-jenkins
Jan 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:9 PRs, 68 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 4 months
michaelarichard/esxi
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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