Richard Crutchfield
Principal Software Systems Engineer at The MITRE Corporation
Deltona, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Crutchfield is a Principal Software Systems Engineer with nearly three decades of hands-on experience designing and operating secure, mission-critical systems for defense and aerospace clients. He currently leads cloud and DevOps efforts—establishing controlled AWS GovCloud development environments for national security systems—and previously guided enterprise cloud strategy and DevOps pipelines at MITRE. Richard combines deep infrastructure-as-code, Linux, and SOA expertise with a rigorous analytical background in mathematics and computer science, enabling practical Analysis of Alternatives and business-process-driven solutions. His career traces from embedded and launch-control architectures for NASA to enterprise cloud modernization, reflecting a rare blend of legacy system know-how and modern cloud-native practices. Based in Deltona, Florida, he pairs technical leadership with an operator’s mindset rooted in early field experience as an Army electronic technician.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Columbus State University
Github Skills (61)
cybersecurity10
open-source10
security-automation10
open-policy-agent10
security10
automation10
rego10
powershell10
javascript9
meteor9
webrtc9
slack9
chat9
collaboration9
docker-desktop8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
crutchfield/actions
Nov 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
cisagov/ScubaGear
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Automation to assess the state of your M365 tenant against CISA's baselines
Contributions:386 reviews, 3 commits, 51 PRs in 1 day
automationassessment-toolcisacybersecuritym365
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