Richard Cheney
Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Microsoft
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Cheney is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect with nine years focused on cloud architecture and partner-facing solutions, currently based in Bracknell and serving Microsoft. He has held progressive Azure and cloud leadership roles—from practice lead at Cloud Direct to multiple senior architect positions at Microsoft—bridging technical delivery, partner strategy, and hands-on implementation. Richard contributes to open source infrastructure tooling, notably enhancing the widely used hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm with robust metadata handling and partner ID support, showing a practical blend of backend engineering and QA discipline. His background spans enterprise systems, consultancy leadership, and Unix administration, giving him a rare mix of low-level operational experience and cloud-native design. Collected insights from working across vendors and partners enable him to translate complex compliance and policy requirements into reliable, testable automation for large-scale Azure deployments.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics at University of Essex
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Github Skills (11)
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
testing9
json8
reflections7
reflection7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
May 2019 - Aug 2022
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the Azure Resource Manager Terraform provider by implementing custom DiffSuppressFuncs to handle metadata changes in policy definitions and set definitions. They also wrote tests for these custom functions, ensuring the provider correctly manages metadata updates. Additionally, the user updated the provider to allow for various partner ID formats.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
richeney/arm
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:106 commits, 77 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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