Richard Avelar
Sr. Systems Administrator
Spring, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Avelar is a Sr. Systems Administrator with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient Windows and VMware infrastructure for large organizations. He specializes in Active Directory, ActiveRoles Server, server migrations, file server security and data consolidation, and has led teams through complex, high-stakes operational environments at Port Houston and multiple consultancy engagements. Richard pairs deep systems administration skills with practical automation and troubleshooting—evidenced by open-source contributions to OpenStack Keystone where he improved authentication, token handling, and removed legacy code to boost reliability. Based in Spring, Texas, he excels at bridging customer-facing support with strategic infrastructure projects, often uncovering subtle identity and federation issues before they impact users. Colleagues rely on him for clear, process-driven migrations and for strengthening security posture in mixed on-prem/cloud estates.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DeVry University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
authentication10
user-authentication10
openstack10
python10
database9
performance-optimization9
databases9
testing8
documentation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/keystone
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
OpenStack Identity (Keystone). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the Keystone Identity service by fixing bugs and improving performance. Their commits addressed documentation issues related to external authentication and federation, particularly concerning user ID conflicts. They also worked on enhancing the user experience related to token flushing with memcache and improving the check_token validation performance. Furthermore, the user refactored and removed legacy code.
vcenterkeystoneopendevidentityopenstack
csravelar/python_projects
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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