Ric Klaren
Cloud Architect at Hypori Virtual Mobility
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRic Klaren is a Cloud Architect and seasoned software engineer with 21 years of experience building resilient, automated infrastructure and delivery pipelines from Austin, Texas. He blends deep Linux and automation expertise with hands-on DevOps and backend engineering, having contributed improvements to the widely used SaltStack project—especially its libvirt cloud integrations and VM cleanup/error handling. A pragmatic advocate of Agile, CI, automated testing and continuous delivery, Ric focuses on long-term, high-value solutions while remaining detail-oriented in implementation. His career spans product development and platform design at companies like XebiaLabs and AT&T Cybersecurity, where he helped future-proof deployment and release tooling. Colleagues rely on him as an "automation guru" who quickly learns new technologies and reduces operational noise through robust error handling and logging.
21 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Informatics, M.Sc., Informatics at Universiteit TwenteChristelijk Lyceum Almelo
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
libvirt10
infrastructure-as-code10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
saltstack10
python10
fedora9
automations8
automation8
automation-testing5
remote-execution4
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ric's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `libvirt` integration within the SaltStack cloud module. They addressed bug fixes related to virtual machine cleanup, specifically when salt bootstrap fails. The user also implemented error handling and logging improvements to manage and reduce stderr spam from `libvirt`, improving the overall user experience. Furthermore, they added Fedora 26 support and addressed some linting issues.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
rklaren/salt
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here:
Contributions:11 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
saltdevopsitilpuppetinfrastructure
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