Richard Cox
Lead Cloud Engineer at SSM Health
Ballwin, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Cox is a Lead Cloud Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-first solutions, currently leading cloud engineering at SSM Health. He progressed through senior engineering roles at Lumen Technologies and CenturyLink, blending software development, SQL-driven data work, and infrastructure automation to deliver reliable systems. Richard’s background spans full-stack web development, API and serverless builds (including AWS Lambda/API Gateway), and practical DevOps practices, giving him fluency from database tuning to deployment pipelines. He’s comfortable translating client needs into production-ready features, a skill honed early while building logistics and dealership applications and supporting customers in Tier 2 roles. Based in Ballwin, Missouri, he pairs technical leadership with a pragmatic, user-focused approach and a philosophy-informed curiosity that surfaces in thoughtful architecture and team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Gateway AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at St. Louis Community CollegePhilosophy, Philosophy at Saint Louis UniversityPhilosophy, Philosophy at Kenrick Glennon SeminaryPhilosophy, Philosophy at Legionaries of Christ
Github Skills (57)
kubernetes10
k3s10
terraform10
ansible10
react10
picocli9
gitops9
cpp8
science8
docker-container8
json-data8
mortar8
ecommerce7
markdown7
nodejs7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Stackclash/home-cluster
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
GitOps principles to define k3s home cluster state via code
Contributions:79 reviews, 1252 commits, 802 PRs in 2 years 4 months
gitopsk3sansiblek8s-at-homekubernetes
RickCoxDev/arm-charts
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:27 releases, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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