Rich Schumacher is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He has progressed from hands-on web and backend development to senior engineering and staff roles at companies like Digg, Curalate, Bazaarvoice, and now Brivo, bringing a pragmatic focus on scalable architectures and automation. Rich has led platform and ads-system rewrites, built configuration management and ingestion pipelines, and translated monolithic systems into modular, testable services. He blends deep implementation experience with systems thinking, mentoring teams while shipping reliable production systems. Based in Hopatcong, NJ, he pairs a BS in Computer Science with a track record of turning complex data and deployment challenges into maintainable solutions. Notably, his background spans both product-facing features and behind-the-scenes infrastructure, giving him a rare full-stack operational perspective.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 10 months
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