Rich Long
Fractional Principal Architect at SUSE
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRich Long is a Fractional Principal Architect with 14+ years of cloud infrastructure and DevOps experience, known for designing resilient multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) systems and automating infrastructure, security, and compliance at scale. He has led enterprise transformations at GE Healthcare—creating modular CI/CD, MFA rollout automation across 500+ VPCs, and infrastructure patterns that cut deployment times and manual effort dramatically—while currently shaping an empathetic, privacy-first AI platform for neurodivergent users at NixIt AI. Hands-on with Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability stacks, he combines deep technical craft (Python, Shell, Groovy) with pragmatic security practices and cost optimization. Rich pairs coaching and platform-building to uplift engineering teams, moving organizations from toil to predictable delivery. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he brings a long arc of systems-level thinking stretching back to Sun Microsystems and early ops roles, which informs a rare blend of legacy-system pragmatism and modern cloud-native design.
14 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BSCEE Computer and Electrical Engineering, BSCEE Computer and Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
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semweblongshot/myzsh
Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 11 months
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