Rich Braun
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRich Braun is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in San Francisco with 12 years of focused experience in deployment engineering, DevOps, and developer productivity at large SaaS companies. He currently leads Philanthropy Cloud devops at Salesforce, driving repeatable service deployment, security compliance, and standardization across teams using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins and Heroku. Rich has a long track record of technical leadership—from founding startups to senior engineering roles at Splunk and earlier network and operations leadership—bringing both hands-on implementation and organizational process design. He’s skilled at onboarding and documentation, having created team wikis, operations policies, and training materials to stabilize teams during high turnover. Colleagues rely on him for cross-functional coordination between engineering, security and operations to turn complex requirements into auditable, repeatable systems. An entrepreneur at heart, he combines startup founding experience with enterprise-scale execution to deliver dependable infrastructure and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
yubikey10
authentication10
security10
backup10
sso-authentication10
sftp10
encryption10
single-page-application10
ecosystem10
push-notifications10
duplicati10
rest10
golang10
webdav10
react-admin10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
instantlinux/weewx-WeeGreen
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
instantlinux/docker-tools
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Docker tools for developer productivity & entertainment
Contributions:5 releases, 14 reviews, 529 commits in 5 years 10 months
docker
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