Rich Siegel
Systems DevOps at Group One Trading, LP
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Siegel is a seasoned Systems DevOps leader with 14+ years designing and operating resilient infrastructure across finance, government, defense, pharma, education, and sales sectors. He has led automation and architecture teams at trading firms and exchanges, driving measurable efficiency gains and a pragmatic "ship no known defects" engineering culture. Hands-on with back-end and DevOps tooling, he contributed to Chocolatey’s core by improving pipelining, large-file downloads, and modular install/uninstall flows—demonstrating both deep systems skills and open-source craftsmanship. Based in New York, he pairs strategic thinking with tactical execution and favors simplified stacks, Agile discipline, and rebuilding over risky patches when it improves long-term reliability.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Business Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Business Economics at SUNY Oneonta
ruby, powershell
Github Skills (9)
powershell10
command-line-interface10
package-management10
scripting10
command-line10
cli10
automation9
automations9
devops8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chocolatey-archive/chocolatey
May 2012 - Dec 2012
[DEPRECATED - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco] Chocolatey NuGet - Like apt-get, but for windows.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:35 commits, 8 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of Chocolatey, a package manager for Windows. Their contributions included implementing improvements to pipelining capabilities by returning objects instead of hashes, adding new command-line switches for actions like uninstall, and modularizing functions for both install and uninstall operations. They also made updates to support logging and downloading files, which included fixes for downloads over 2GB. They also enhanced the overall structure of the project by adding new helpers to support new functionalities, such as installing and uninstalling Zip packages.
dotnetwindowschocolateyapt-getcsharp
rismoney/puppet-wsus
Feb 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 7 months
providerwsuspuppet
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