Richard Alvarez
Lead Engineer at McGraw Hill
Owings Mills, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Alvarez is a pragmatic engineering leader with 13 years of experience delivering cloud-native, highly available enterprise systems across retail, e-commerce, and federal domains. Currently a Lead Engineer at McGraw Hill, he specializes in translating business needs into technical programs and has repeatedly led large migrations and integrations using Azure, Dynamics 365, and modern CI/CD practices. He has driven architecture and delivery for platforms processing millions in daily transactions, moved legacy systems to Azure with near-zero downtime, and implemented data and analytics solutions using ADF, Databricks, and Power BI. Known for cutting through jargon, Richard combines hands-on development (C#, .NET, Python, Vue.js) with team coaching and standards-driven practices that reduce technical debt. His background includes leading Azure Kubernetes migrations, serverless pricing portals, and chatbot initiatives—demonstrating a knack for pragmatic innovation alongside operational rigor. Based in Owings Mills, MD, he pairs a University of Michigan CS foundation with a track record of cross-functional leadership in both commercial and federal settings.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Spanish
Github Skills (62)
vagrant10
ruby9
automation9
noise9
virtualization9
docker8
ansible8
dice8
jam8
scraper7
cli-application7
launcher7
crawler7
pygobject7
ejs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KodeAndGame/ProSewerPolo
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:144 commits in 1 month
jamdice-gamegame-jamrobotunity
KodeAndGame/typefighter
Mar 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 10 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 3 months
gamejavascriptweb-gamenodejscompetitive
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