Summary
Richard Boswell is a Principal Architect and US Navy veteran with over a decade of experience designing and operating scalable, highly available cloud and platform engineering solutions across AWS, Azure, vSphere, OpenStack and Kubernetes. He has led global platform and DevOps teams to replatform datacenters, shrink technical debt, and accelerate time-to-market through automation, CI/CD and developer-first platform design. At VMware he helped transform OpenStack into a cloud-native Kubernetes product and authored reference architectures used by Fortune 50 customers, bringing both field and engineering perspectives to product strategy. Now at CVS Health after a multi-year tenure as Thryv’s Head of DevOps and Platform Architecture, he blends hands-on architecture with people leadership to align technology with business velocity. His background as a nuclear-trained Navy electronics technician informs a disciplined approach to reliability and operational rigor that shows up in enterprise-scale migrations and platform governance.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
U.S. Navy Nuclear Field “A” School
Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineering at US Navy Nuclear Power School
AAS IT, AAS IT at Fountainhead College of Technology
Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineering at US Navy Nuclear Power Traning Unit