Richard Duarte
Systems Development Engineer at Twitch
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Duarte is a seasoned Systems Development Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years building and automating large-scale infrastructure and data platforms. He has led DevOps and big-data operations at companies from startups to Comcast and Twitch, modernizing CI/CD, Airflow workflows, and Hadoop/AWS integrations to keep critical systems running 24/7. Richard excels at reducing cost and risk—examples include zero-downtime migrations to AWS Aurora, leveraging EC2 spot instances, and automating deploys and rollbacks across heterogeneous stacks (Erlang, Elixir, Ruby). A pragmatic automation advocate, he blends hands-on scripting and orchestration (Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins) with monitoring/observability tooling like Datadog and Elasticsearch. Outside work he’s a cyclist, traveler and self-described secret dancer, reflecting a restless curiosity that drives both technical improvements and team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at William & Mary
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
vagrant-plugin10
cloud-development-kit10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-inventory9
aws-sdk9
kafka9
python8
hadoop8
hdfs8
distributed-systems8
boto8
mysql7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KingOfPoptart/aws-cdk
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:15 PRs, 45 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
development-kitcost-optimizationaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructure
KingOfPoptart/DanceyPants
Feb 2015 - Jan 2019
DanceyPants, a Raspberry Pi Instrument
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
piraspberry-piraspberry
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