Richard Bullington-mcguire
Director, Platform Engineering
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Bullington-mcguire is a versatile technology leader and entrepreneur with 14+ years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations, currently serving as Director of Platform Engineering at Modus Create. He combines hands-on full-stack development and DevOps expertise—having migrated dozens of apps to AWS with Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Jenkins—with strategic leadership roles from COO to Distinguished Engineer that drove multi-million dollar engagements and team growth from tens to hundreds of people. A longtime open-source contributor and founder of The Obscure Organization, he has shipped technical content (Linux Journal articles), classroom coding workshops for kids using MIT Scratch, and practical OSS contributions including work on a Packt-published Docker-for-Developers project. Known for turning ambiguous problems into repeatable consulting templates and measurable performance gains (4x–50x improvements), he blends product-minded engineering, nonprofit stewardship, and a penchant for pragmatic automation.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering and Studio Art, Computer Engineering and Studio Art at Virginia TechComputer Science, Computer Science at George Mason University
English, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
docker10
redis10
css10
dockers10
html10
rest-api10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
openapi9
nodejs8
expressjs8
powershell6
getelementsbytagname6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Docker-for-Developers
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
Docker for Developers, published by Packt
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:231 commits, 124 PRs, 353 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily worked on implementing and enhancing the "ShipIt Clicker" game, adding features like Redis support, a RESTful API, and UI improvements. Their contributions included game logic, store mechanics, and the integration of a database. The user also focused on frontend development by adding animation, layout improvements and making API links more obvious. They also prepared the project for deployments through Docker and Kubernetes.
containerspacktdockercontainerizationfor-developers
obscureorganization/obscure-scripts
May 2019 - Jan 2023
A collection of scripts from The Obscure Organization <https://www.obscure.org> - a public access UNIX system in continuous use since 1995.
Contributions:82 commits, 30 PRs, 80 pushes in 3 years 9 months
unixsysbenchuptimerobotcontinuousicinga2
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